5 Countries That Produce the Best Chocolate in the World

3. Italian Republic

Chocolate Exports in 2021: $2.4 billion

The Italian Republic is a Southern and Western European country. It has a bustling chocolate industry, which produced 377,858 tons of the food last year which was valued at EUR5.1 billion. Italy produces a wide variety of chocolate products, such as chocolate bars, chocolate eggs, and chocolate spreads. Italy’s most famous chocolate brand, Ferrero Rocher, is known all over the world and is owned by Ferrero SpA. The Italian industry consists primarily of privately held chocolate companies, such as the specialty chocolate maker Amedei and Caffarel, which was the first to produce chocolate in the country.