Brazil towers over world sugar: 42.5 Mt produced and 54% of all exports forecast for 2026/27

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“whote are top producers/exporters and importers of the sugar in the world?”

USDA’s latest global forecast (May 2026, marketing year 2026/27) ranks the top 10 producers, exporters and importers of centrifugal sugar, all in million metric tons raw value — forecast physical volumes, not trade values, and not sugarcane tonnage or other sweeteners. The full top-10 ranking is single-sourced to USDA’s “Sugar: World Markets and Trade” report; the leading figures are independently corroborated across 16 other hosts in 25 source records.

Top 10 producers

Million metric tons, raw value

Top 10 exporters

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Top 10 importers

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Brazil’s 33.6 Mt of forecast exports is over five times Thailand’s 6.0 Mt and about 54% of the 62.3 Mt global export forecast. apps.fas.usda.gov · thedeepcore.com

China is the top importer at 5.45 Mt, ahead of Indonesia at 4.2 Mt; both produce sugar yet still buy heavily abroad. apps.fas.usda.gov

India is the world’s no. 2 producer (33.6 Mt) but only no. 4 exporter (3.6 Mt) and no. 6 importer (2.43 Mt) — most of its output is consumed at home. thedeepcore.com

The European Union appears on all three lists: no. 3 producer (14.353 Mt), no. 8 exporter (0.858 Mt) and no. 5 importer (2.55 Mt), as shrinking beet output pushes imports up. apps.fas.usda.gov

Exact values, 2026/27 forecast

Category	Rank	Country / economy	Mt raw value	Source

Data: USDA FAS “Sugar: World Markets and Trade”, May 2026 forecast for marketing year 2026/27; centrifugal sugar in million metric tons raw value (forecast physical volume, not trade value). Built from 25 source-comparison records across 17 hosts plus 11 corroborating extraction rows; the complete top-10 rankings come from the single USDA row, and other hosts corroborate the leaders. Rows covering 2025/26 or US quota allocations were excluded. A world map was omitted because the European Union is an aggregate economy, not a single mappable country.

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