In 2025 Germany imported a total of 5.4 billion fresh chicken eggs, a figure that has fallen 3.8 % compared with the 5.6 billion eggs imported the previous year. The Netherlands remained the dominant supplier, providing 3.7 billion eggs – 68.7 % of all imports – according to Destatis. Poland supplied 861 million eggs (15.9 %), and Belgium contributed 190 million eggs (3.5 %).
German egg exports reached 1.2 billion in 2025, down 11.6 % from the 1.4 billion exported the year before and 40.1 % lower than the 2.1 billion exported in 2015. Over the past decade, the quantity of eggs exported has thus declined.
Domestic production, on the other hand, has grown. In 2025, German farms produced 13.7 billion eggs, representing a 16.4 % increase from the 11.8 billion eggs produced in 2015.
The average per‑capita consumption of eggs in Germany also rose. Provisional data from the Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung show an average of 252 eggs per person in 2025, up by four eggs from the previous year and above the 228 eggs per person recorded in 2015.
