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South Asia, which includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, accounts for 24 percent of the world’s population, with 1.84 billion people in 2019.

While trade tensions and China’s retaliatory tariffs slashed U.S. agricultural exports to China in 2018 and 2019,

Mexico is the second-largest export market of agricultural products from the United States. Over the last decade, U.S. agricultural exports to Mexico grew 48 percent to $19.1 billion.

U.S. exporters who want to enter or expand in India’s market have an array of opportunities available due to the country’s growing population and increasing demand for food and agricultural goods.

At a combined $23.8 billion, China and Hong Kong represent 18 percent of U.S. agricultural exports to the world, up from 10 percent just a decade ago.

Over the past decade, the United States' agricultural exports to China have risen sharply, propelling China into its position as the fastest-growing and highest-value export destination...

Central America and the Caribbean, with their close geographical and economic ties to the United States, have always been an important market for U.S. agricultural exports.

U.S. agricultural exports to Southeast Asia have experienced extremely rapid growth in recent years and, in FY 2014, they climbed to a record $11.5 billion – up 11 percent from FY 2013.

A rapidly growing middle class in North Asia is expected to boost demand for U.S. agricultural exports over the next decade.

Indonesia is one of the most dynamic growth markets for U.S. agricultural exports, with strong economic performance and rapid urbanization propelling changes in consumption and trade.

Turkey was the 11th-largest export market for U.S.agricultural products in calendar year 2011.

Brazilian crop and livestock production continues to expand, building on rapid gains over the past few decades.