Asia is Key to Global Egg Output Growth
Table 1. World egg production (million tonnes) 2000 Africa
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2012E
2013E
1.9
2.2
2.4
2.5
2.6
2.6
2.8
2.9
2.9
Americas
10.4
11.7
12.3
12.3
12.5
12.6
12.8
13.1
13.1
Asia
29.0
32.6
33.0
34.5
36.2
37.2
37.4
38.1
38.6
Europe
9.5
9.9
10.1
10.0
10.2
10.3
10.5
10.6
10.6
Oceania
0.2
0.2
0.2
0.2
0.2
0.2
0.3
0.3
0.3
51.0
56.6
57.9
59.6
61.8
62.8
63.8
65.0
65.5
WORLD
Source: FAO to 2010; E = author's estimates for 2012
to 37.4 million tonnes out of a total of 63.8 million tonnes, and it looks as though in 2013 Asia will produce around 38.6 million tonnes of a world total of some 65.5 million tonnes, pushing its contribution up to 59 per cent. In 2010, there were some 6,556 million layers worldwide, of which around 4,211 million (64 per cent) were in Asia. Of the near 50 countries in this region, 10 produce more than 500,000 tonnes of eggs a year, their combined output of nearly 34.6 million tonnes representing 92.3 of the regional total in 2010 (Tables 2, 3 and 4). China's dominance in this picture is clear from these figures and Figure 2. Output in China has escalated from just below 19
million tonnes in 2000 to almost 24 million tonnes in 2010, exhibiting an annual growth rate of 2.3 per cent. This was marginally slower than the 2.6 per cent recorded for the region as a whole hence, by the end of the decade, China's share of the total had slipped a shade from 65.2 per cent to 63.7 per cent. This observation is also true for the combined total of the 10 leading producing countries, their share having slipped from almost 94 per cent to 92.3 per cent, which serves to emphasise that considerable expansion has occurred among the other countries in Asia. Many managed to double their annual production, while their combined output increased by a million tonnes over the decade from 1.8 million tonnes to 2.9 million tonnes. Although the quantity of fowl eggs produced in China exceeds 28 million tonnes a year, the volume of hen
70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Africa 2000
Americas 2005
2006
Asia 2007
Europe 2008
2009
Oceania 2010
Figure 1. Global hen egg production (million tonnes)
10
World 2012E
2013E