date:Dec 31, 2019
In 2018, Spain dominated the world export of lettuce, both in terms of volume and value, as revealed by the data from the Statistics Division of the United Nations Organization, COMTRADE, processed by Hortoinfo. The total volume of lettuce exported by all countries in the world in 2018 was 2,304.2 million kilos; of these, 853.19 were shipped by Spain, 330.64 by the United States and 211.86 million kilos by Mexico. Spain (37.03%), the US (14.36%) and Mexico (9.19%) accounted for 60.57 % of the wo