In 2020, the EU produced over 2.9 billion litres of ice cream, representing a 9% decline from the previous year.
Over the same period, EU Member States exported 232 million kilograms of ice cream to non-EU countries, worth a total of €752 million. In addition, imports of ice cream from countries outside the EU amounted to 79 million kilograms, worth a total of €182 million.
Among the EU Member States, Germany was the main producer of ice cream in 2020, producing 642 million litres of ice cream.
As well as being the largest ice cream producer in 2020, Germany produced on average the cheapest ice cream at €1.3 per litre. France reported the highest price at €2.2 per litre of ice cream (2019 data), closely followed by Italy with the average price of €2.0 per litre of ice cream.
France exported 59 million kilograms of ice cream in 2020, accounting for 25% of extra-EU ice cream exports. This made it the largest ice cream exporter out of all EU Member States.