Chickpeas | Market Size, Share & Growth Report 2025-2033

North America is a producing and processing region rather than a traditional consuming one, and its demand growth comes from formats rather than from the pulse itself. Canada and the United States grow kabuli chickpeas for export, and AGT Food and Ingredients operates from Canada with processing spanning North America, Turkey, Australia and South Africa. Archer-Daniels-Midland supplies plant-based protein ingredients from here into manufacturers worldwide. Consumption growth is concentrated in hummus, roasted chickpea snacks and chickpea pasta rather than in dry pulse cooking, which means the region buys processed chickpea value rather than raw volume. Chickpea flour demand supports gluten-free bakery formulation. No published regional market size, revenue or growth figure for chickpeas was identified for this region, so its position is inferred from production and from the measured Asia Pacific share.

Europe consumes chickpeas through Mediterranean cooking traditions and through a growing plant-protein segment, and it is a net importer. Spain, Italy, Greece and Portugal have long-established chickpea dishes, and Turkey, geographically adjacent and the third largest producer after India and Australia, supplies a substantial part of regional demand. Louis Dreyfus Company trades chickpeas alongside mung beans and yellow peas into European markets from its Netherlands base. European Union organic certification rules apply to imported chickpeas as to domestic production, and because chickpea is a nitrogen-fixing legume requiring no nitrogen fertiliser, organic conversion is less demanding than for cereals. Demand growth is weighted toward hummus, canned convenience formats and gluten-free flour rather than toward the dry pulse. No published figure reports European chickpea revenue separately.

Asia Pacific is the largest regional market, holding a 35.5% share of the chickpea market in 2025, and that understates its weight in physical terms. India is the largest producer at about 11.91 million tonnes a year, within a global volume of 22.5 million tonnes in 2025, and it is also the largest consumer, with chickpeas eaten whole, split as chana dal and milled into besan as dietary staples. Australia is the second largest producer and recorded an estimated 1.9 million tonnes in the 2024-25 season, a record, exporting heavily into India. The evidentiary limit should be stated plainly: no published regional market growth rate for chickpeas was identified for any region, so the fastest-growing ranking rests on the region's production and consumption concentration rather than on a measured rate. AWL Agri Business supplies Indian pulses under the Fortune brand.

Latin America is a modest producer and consumer with a specific export niche. Mexico grows kabuli chickpeas, principally in Sinaloa and Sonora, and exports large-calibre grades to Mediterranean and Middle Eastern buyers where size determines price more than any other attribute. Argentina produces chickpeas in its northwestern provinces for export as a counter-seasonal supply to northern hemisphere harvests. Domestic consumption across most of the region is limited, since beans rather than chickpeas are the staple pulse in Brazilian, Mexican and Central American cooking. That makes the region a price-taker in international trade rather than a market in its own right. No published figure isolates Latin American chickpea revenue, so the regional position is inferred from production and trade rather than measured directly.

The Middle East and Africa combines deep consumption traditions with import dependence across much of the territory. Hummus, falafel and chickpea stews are dietary staples across the Levant, Egypt and North Africa, which gives the region per capita consumption well above the global average while its production is insufficient to meet that demand. Turkey, adjacent to the region and the third largest producer after India and Australia, supplies a substantial part of it, and AGT Food and Ingredients operates processing capacity there. Olam Food Ingredients runs origination hubs across Africa and is identified as a supplier of pulse varieties specialised for Middle Eastern markets. Ethiopia is the principal sub-Saharan producer. Import dependence makes the region exposed to the Indian and Australian harvest cycle. No published figure reports regional chickpea revenue separately.