324.8 million kg
Total yerba mate leaving Argentine mills in 2025
This combined domestic and export figure was 7.3% higher than 2024.
Source: INYM, Feb. 2, 2026
El mate, in numbers
Yerba Mate Statistics: Argentina’s 2025 Market at a Glance
Six citable figures on the harvest, domestic market, exports, and the everyday formats behind one of Argentina’s most enduring rituals.
Last updated October 16, 2026. Figures reflect the latest full-year sources available on this page.
The 2025 picture
Argentina’s mate ritual is both local and far-reaching.
Yerba mate is carried, shared, and prepared in countless daily moments. The figures below offer a grounded view of the scale behind that ritual, from the leaf received at drying facilities to the packages sent to homes and the shipments traveling abroad.
Each figure links directly to the source that published it, so writers, students, and curious materos can check the original context.
58.0 million kg
Argentine yerba mate exported in 2025
Exports reached a record and grew 32.2% year over year.
Source: INYM, Feb. 2, 2026266.8 million kg
Yerba mate sent to Argentina’s domestic market in 2025
The figure was 3.1% above the 2024 total reported by INYM.
Source: INYM, Feb. 2, 2026889.3 million kg
Green leaf received by Argentine drying facilities in 2025
This harvest-side measure was 9.9% below the 2024 crop, while remaining above earlier years.
Source: INYM, Feb. 2, 202694.59%
Share of domestic mill shipments in ½ kg and 1 kg packs
In December 2025, ½ kg packs represented 55.14% and 1 kg packs represented 39.45%.
Source: INYM, Feb. 2, 20269,000 tonnes
Yerba mate imported into Europe in 2024
INYM reports that European imports rose from 2,500 tonnes in 2005 to about 9,000 tonnes in 2024.
Source: INYM, Nov. 2025How to use these figures
Sources and methodology
This page brings together published industry statistics from the Instituto Nacional de la Yerba Mate, Argentina’s national yerba mate institute. Mill-exit figures describe product sent from mills into domestic distribution or export channels. Green-leaf figures describe material received by drying facilities, so they should not be read as packaged retail sales.
Numbers are presented as published by the source, with kilograms rounded to one decimal million only in the large display figure. The source link on every statistic contains the exact published total and date.
- INYM: 2025 year-end sales, export, domestic-market, harvest, and package-format figures
- INYM: European yerba mate import trend
Cite this page
El Indio Matero. “Yerba Mate Statistics: Argentina’s 2025 Market at a Glance.” Updated October 16, 2026.
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