Baltic: Estonia, Lithuania global leaders in wooden house exports

Estonia was the world’s largest exporter of prefabricated wooden houses in 2023, ELTA reports, citing Lithuanian business news portal Verslo Zinios. Estonia had a global market share of 21.5%, followed by Lithuania with 9.3% and Poland with 8%. Estonia’s exports of wooden buildings totalled EUR 390mn in 2023. Lithuania came in second with EUR 164mn, which was down 27.5% from EUR 226.3mn in 2022. Poland exported wooden houses for EUR 142.2mn in 2023. The information comes from the UN Comtrade database.