Cotton Yarn Market Outlook:
Cotton Yarn Market size was over USD 78.57 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach USD 135.49 billion by 2035, growing at around 5.6% CAGR during the forecast period i.e., between 2026-2035. In the year 2026, the industry size of cotton yarn is evaluated at USD 82.53 billion.
Cotton production worldwide is expanding at a healthy pace, which is positively influencing the sales of cotton-based yarns. For instance, as per the analysis by the World Population Review, around 25 million tons of cotton were produced in 2024, globally. China is the top producer of cotton and recorded over 6.4 million tons of production in 2021. The World Wildlife Organization estimates that cotton production is an income source for over 250 million people, globally and employs around 7% of all labor working in the high-potential economies.
China and the U.S. are the major exporters of textile yarn, in 2022, both countries totaled USD 16.3 billion and USD 3.5 billion, respectively. The major production of raw cotton and the rapidly developing textile industry are pushing the sales of cotton yarns in these economies. Furthermore, according to the report by the Observatory of Economic Complexity, retail cotton yarn was the 1111th most traded product worldwide, in 2022. France, Germany, and Denmark totaled USD 29.5 million, USD 17.0 million, and USD 15.6 million in retail yarn exports in 2022, respectively. The global retail cotton yarn market concentration was around 4.63 using Shannon Entropy, in 2022.
