Natural stone exports H1 2026: eight countries compared

Of the eight countries with first-half 2026 data in the KEYSTONE. monthly bulletins, only Italy exported more natural stone by value in January–June 2026 than a year earlier (+1.5%). The other seven fell, from −2.4% in India to −13.8% in Egypt.

Türkiye and China, two of the largest exporters, have no 2026 data yet, so this comparison is limited to the eight countries below and is not a picture of the whole world market.

• 1 of 8

  countries with higher export value

• 2 of 7

  countries with more tonnes shipped

• +1.5%

  Italy, the only rise in value

• −13.8%

  Egypt, the largest fall

Change in export value

• Italy+1.5%
• India−2.4%
• Spain−3.0%
• Portugal−5.5%
• Brazil−7.9%
• Greece−8.1%
• Canada−8.5%
• Egypt−13.8%

Each change is measured in the currency of its source: euros for the EU countries (Eurostat Comext) and US dollars for the others (UN Comtrade). Exchange-rate moves are therefore part of the difference between the two groups, and absolute values are not added up or converted.

Change in tonnes

• Greece+3.1%
• Spain+1.6%
• Brazil−2.6%
• Italy−3.4%
• India−3.7%
• Portugal−4.1%
• Canada−33.1%

Tonnes do not depend on the currency. Greece and Spain shipped more stone by weight but earned less for it; Canada's volume fell by a third (−33.1%), mostly because it shipped far fewer raw blocks.

Country by country

Egypt: no tonnes. It does not declare the weight of most of its exports and UN Comtrade estimates it from one fixed world price per product, so those figures would not be the country's data.

Each country's note has the detail and its source line.

The latest months are provisional and may still be revised.