Add this to your functions.php before exporting posts. It will run the content through the same wpautop() function that’s used to display posts.
function codelight_content_export($content) {
return wpautop($content);
}
add_filter('the_content_export', 'codelight_content_export', 999);
Note that you may want to do the same for your excerpts, in which case you should use the_excerpt_export filter.
Reference: https://codelight.eu/exporting-wordpress-posts-and-pages-with-paragraph-tags-included/