Pork Price in Italy
Latest available price
3,489.8 USD/mt
+32.5% vs. World (average). Higher than 43 of 52 other reporting countries (2024).
Italy is the world's 17th-largest producer (1% of global output, FAOSTAT 2023). Italy is the world's 11th-largest exporter (1.6% of global exports, FAOSTAT 2023). Italy is the world's 4th-largest importer (7.2% of global imports, FAOSTAT 2023).
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How this year compares, month by month, to the typical pattern of recent years for the selected region.
Notable price events
- African swine fever in China — African swine fever wiped out an estimated 40-55% of China's pig herd by late 2019 - roughly 250 million animals - tripling Chinese pork prices and collapsing the country's demand for the corn and soybean meal used to feed them, a rare case of a livestock disease moving grain markets more than weather did that year.
EU options are the European Commission's own weekly reference prices; "European Union" is the Commission's own published EU-wide average, not a figure computed by agri.markets. Currency, unit and inflation conversions are explained in how agri.markets sources and calculates prices.
Price data table
Recent prices
| Period | Price (USD/mt) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3,489.8 | +2.1% |
| 2023 | 3,416.7 | +25.1% |
| 2022 | 2,731.6 | +1.4% |
| 2021 | 2,693.7 | +8.7% |
| 2020 | 2,479 | -0.8% |
| 2019 | 2,498.3 | -17.3% |
| 2018 | 3,020.7 | +2.2% |
| 2017 | 2,955.9 | +21.9% |
| 2016 | 2,425.7 | +7.9% |
| 2015 | 2,247.5 | – |