Overview
- An ILH/ALA report for 2025 names Argentina the top per‑capita consumer at 398 eggs, ahead of Mexico at 392 and Colombia at 365.
- Producers support demand with 62.7 million laying hens and about 19 billion eggs a year, with an 83.02% laying rate and 91% of farms using cages.
- Consumption rose from 298 eggs per person in 2021 to 398 in 2025, including a 35‑egg jump between 2024 and 2025.
- Foreign sales reached about 353 million eggs in 2025, roughly 1.86% of national output, which still left most production for the home market.
- In Tucumán, producers reported a recent price drop that cut margins for small farms as a niche for free‑range eggs slowly grows.