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France appetite for eggs hits record highs in 2025. Photo: Reuters
PARIS:
France consumed a record number of eggs in 2025, driven by their affordability amid economic uncertainty, and the trend is set to continue, prompting ?producers to build more hen houses, the French egg industry group said on Thursday.
Demand for eggs has risen across ?Europe and around the world as they are seen as a cost-effective source of protein, suitable for a ?wide variety of dishes and dietary preferences.
Each French resident ate an average of 237 eggs in 2025, either as shell eggs or processed egg products, up from 227 eggs in 2024, the CNPO industry group said.
Projections from French ?technical institute ITAVI suggest that demand will keep growing, with estimates of 269 eggs per person annually by 2035, of which 70% would be shell eggs.
“In 2020 demand boomed as people stayed at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. We could ?have expected the trend to fall but it didn’t and instead continued to grow steadily,” Emily Mayer from market research firm Circana, told a news conference.
