Chocolate or sugar confectionery - what do Poles love more?
Consumption of confectionery products has maintained a rather regular trend since 2012, with an average Polish consumer eating 290 grams of confectionery goods every month in 2022. On the other hand, the average monthly expenditure on confectionery has witnessed an upward trend, indicating potentially rising prices of these products.Nevertheless, chocolate products are most definitely catching up with their sugar counterparts. When looking at chocolate consumption, figures show that an average Pole eats 200 grams of chocolate each month. So, unlike sugar confectionery, which showed regular consumption volumes, the monthly consumption of chocolate increased by over 122 percent during the observation period. The price of chocolate has increased slightly over the years. In 2022, 100 grams of milk chocolate cost 4.14 zloty.
Chocolate trade flows
The United Kingdom and Germany were most fond of Polish chocolate goods, importing over 96 thousand and 75 thousand metric tons, respectively.Chocolate import value has changed more over the last few years. In fact, the highest decrease was recorded between 2015 and 2016 and amounted to nearly 27 percent. Still, Poles love their chocolate and prefer their Western neighbors' products the most, considering import values. In 2022, Poland imported German chocolate goods worth a total of 507 million U.S. dollars.
