Global egg production strengthens despite HPAI, cage free

China, the world’s largest egg producing country, now produces more eggs than Indonesia, the U.S. and India combined.

Meredith Dawson

November 14, 2023

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While global egg production dropped slightly in 2021, it progressively grew from 2011-2020, reaching just over 87 million metric tons (mt) in 2020, according to data from the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) (Figure 1).

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