📊 Market analysis

Estonia

As we are Estonia-based, may be useful to track this data too to be able to extrapolate it on the world

• Estonia alone has over ~6400 apiaries (these are registered only)
• 51000 bee colonies
• 5100 beekeepers
• 1.3M population
• thus 0.4 % of population, or ~ every 250th person is a beekeeper
• So almost any grown-up has someone related to beekeeping.

Amount of bee colonies over the years

( source - https://sekkumine.mesinduskogu.ee/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Eesti-mesindussektori-struktuur-2021.pdf )

Amount of beekeepers over the years

(source https://sekkumine.mesinduskogu.ee/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Eesti-mesindussektori-struktuur-2021.pdf )

Beekeepers count depending on colony count

Source - https://www.facebook.com/groups/108065015894483/posts/7747932681907640/

Age distribution

Below - age distribution of estonian beekeepers depending on amount of owned bee colonies, that answered a poll. The older you are, the less likely you are to won lots of colonies.

Source - https://sekkumine.mesinduskogu.ee/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Eesti-mesindussektori-struktuur-2021.pdf

Legal entity

The more you bee colonies you own, the more likely you to use a company (green) or private enterpreneur (blue) legal entity

Source - https://sekkumine.mesinduskogu.ee/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Eesti-mesindussektori-struktuur-2021.pdf

Geographic distribution

Honey production and cost

We see that on average per colony, we have ~23kg per year ( source - https://sekkumine.mesinduskogu.ee/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Eesti-mesindussektori-struktuur-2021.pdf )

(source - https://sekkumine.mesinduskogu.ee/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Eesti-mesindussektori-struktuur-2021.pdf )

Europe and the world markets

• The total number of beekeepers in Europe was estimated at 620 000 (source)
• 94 Million hives in 2020 - statista
• 101 M colonies in 2021 - FAO (source)

Number of bees

https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/news/beekeeping-sector-results-pilot-study-honey-bee-selection-2022-03-15_en

Amount of beekeepers in EU countries

(source - https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/ATAG/2017/608786/EPRS_ATA%282017%29608786_EN.pdf )

Amount of beehives in EU countries

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/edn-20230519-1

Source - https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2022-04/market-presentation-honey_en_0.pdf

Worldwide honey exports & imports

source - https://www.pbc.org.pk/wp-content/uploads/Potential-of-Honey-in-Pakistan-An-Analysis-of-the-Global-and-Domestic-Market.pdf

source - https://www.pbc.org.pk/wp-content/uploads/Potential-of-Honey-in-Pakistan-An-Analysis-of-the-Global-and-Domestic-Market.pdf

source - https://www.pbc.org.pk/wp-content/uploads/Potential-of-Honey-in-Pakistan-An-Analysis-of-the-Global-and-Domestic-Market.pdf

Bee statistics

Colony loss. BeeInformed https://beeinformed.org/2022/07/27/united-states-honey-bee-colony-losses-2021-2022-preliminary-results-from-the-bee-informed-partnership/

Bee races

Which races are owned by beekeepers in Estonia Source - https://sekkumine.mesinduskogu.ee/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Eesti-mesindussektori-struktuur-2021.pdf