Global Flooring Report

Report Overview

Construction Cycles and Category Trends Redefine the Next Phase of Global Flooring Demand

Global flooring growth is increasingly shaped by where construction and renovation cycles are strongest and which product categories are winning specification. This report highlights the regional demand shifts, category share gains, and end-market drivers that will define the next phase of global opportunity.

Key Themes Covered in this Report:

• Ceramic and porcelain tile will remain key flooring products, with premium large-format porcelain and stone-look surfaces seeing additional growth in retail, hospitality, and public spaces.
• LVT flooring demand is rising worldwide, driven by growth in both North America and the Asia/Pacific region, due to its easier maintenance and lower lifecycle costs than other flooring materials.
• Sustainability and indoor‑air‑quality demands are pushing specifications toward low‑VOC, recycled, and circular‑program materials, creating new growth opportunities.

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Global demand for flooring is forecast to rise 3.3% per year to 24.5 billion square meters in 2030, supported by increases in new housing in the Asia/Pacific and Africa/Mideast region, as well as remodeling activity in developed countries.

Hard Surfaces Continue to Define Flooring Trends

Globally, hard surfaces are continuing to dominate flooring in visible spaces. Porcelain tile, stone-look slabs, engineered wood, laminate, and rigid core planks are now popular for main living areas, corridors, and lobbies and often run continuously through open plan layouts. Luxury vinyl tile (LVT) and plank have become the default upgrade new housing projects in a number of countries because they combine realistic wood visuals with waterproof, quick to install floors.

Flooring Demand Guided by Segment-Driven Design & Performance

The type of building in which flooring is installed influences which materials are used. In housing, remodeling projects may replace worn carpet, sheet vinyl, or small tile with LVT, larger porcelain tile, or engineered wood, and then add area rugs for comfort and zoning. Multifamily structures, offices, schools, healthcare, hospitality, and student housing use combinations of hard surface flooring and carpeting to balance durability, cleaning, acoustics, and safety, with hard surfaces leading in public and circulation areas and carpet or rugs reserved for resident rooms and lounges.

Across segments, acoustic performance, slip resistance, stain resistance, and fast turnover are now central to product selection. These patterns give manufacturers, distributors, and specifiers clear cues about which product features to emphasize in each major application.

Pathways to Growth Differ on a Regional Basis

North America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, China, India, Japan, South Korea, and Australia are all moving toward more hard surface flooring in living spaces, with carpet mainly in bedrooms and some high comfort areas. Central and South America, North Africa, the broader Mideast, and Sub-Saharan Africa still rely heavily on ceramic and porcelain as structural floors but are upgrading with higher value materials as urbanization and rising expectations change what households and businesses want underfoot. In every region, replacement of worn or outdated floors remains a larger volume driver than brand new construction, so the existing installed base strongly shapes the pace and direction of product change.

Global Flooring Report Details

Leading Companies Driving Trends in the Global Flooring Industry

Performance & Aesthetics Drive Nonresilient Flooring Demand

Nonresilient hard surfaces such as porcelain tile, engineered wood, and laminate continue to replace broadloom carpet in main living spaces in many countries, driven by demand for easy cleaning, pet and kid friendly surfaces, and open plan layouts where continuous hard flooring through living, kitchen, and hallway is preferred.

Large format porcelain and stone-look slabs are gaining share in both homes and nonresidential buildings, as living rooms, lobbies, and retail spaces move from small tiles to large rectangular or slab formats that reduce grout lines, visually enlarge rooms, and support seamless transitions between interior zones.

Global Flooring Report Scope

This study examines global supply and demand for flooring. Historical data (2015, 2019, and 2025) and forecasts for 2030 and 2035 are provided for flooring demand by product, market, net exports, and shipments by product (hard surface flooring and carpets and rugs) on a country-by-country basis.

Flooring is segmented into:

• nonresilient flooring
  • ceramic (e.g., glazed tiles, unglazed tiles, mosaic tile)
  • wood (solid wood and engineered wood)
  • laminate (e.g., high pressure, direct pressure)
  • other nonresilient flooring, including porcelain slab, bamboo, stone, engineered stone, glass, metal, and seamless
• resilient flooring
  • vinyl (e.g., vinyl sheet, vinyl composition tile, luxury vinyl tile)
  • other resilient flooring (e.g., linoleum, cork, rubber, leather)
• carpets and rugs
  • tufted (e.g., broadloom, carpet tiles, scatter rugs, artificial grass)
  • woven (e.g., Axminster, Wilton, velvet)
  • other carpets and rugs, including needlepunched, knotted, knitted, and braided

Flooring demand by market is presented for:

• new residential construction
• residential remodeling
• new nonresidential construction
• nonresidential remodeling
• transportation equipment (motor vehicles, aircraft, boats and ships, recreational vehicles, rail)

Demand by product and market is presented in square meter terms, while demand totals are also presented in dollars at the country, regional, and global levels. Demand in value terms is shown at the manufacturers’ level and excludes distributor and retailer markups.