Butter and ghee of sheep milk — Production by country
Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area...
What the numbers show
Butter and ghee of sheep milk — Production is currently reported for 9 countries. The highest value is 4,307 t in Afghanistan; the lowest is 330.04 t in Tunisia.
The median across all reporting countries is 1,725 t, and the mean is 3,954 t.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 13.
Over the past decade 4 countries rose and 5 fell. The largest increase was in United Arab Emirates (up 57.2%), and the largest decrease in Saudi Arabia (down 37.1%).
Butter and ghee of sheep milk — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Afghanistan | 4,307 t | 2023 | down 12.6% | flat |
| 2 | Türkiye | 22,406 t | 2023 | down 15.1% | rising |
| 2 | Yemen | 2,152 t | 2023 | up 2.9% | volatile |
| 3 | Saudi Arabia | 1,868 t | 2023 | down 37.1% | rising |
| 4 | Morocco | 1,725 t | 2023 | down 1.2% | rising |
| 5 | United Arab Emirates | 1,458 t | 2023 | up 57.2% | volatile |
| 6 | Iraq | 984.63 t | 2023 | up 0.1% | falling |
| 7 | Oman | 351.57 t | 2023 | up 16.5% | volatile |
| 8 | Tunisia | 330.04 t | 2023 | down 12.0% | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 61,819 t
- Asia 59,764 t
- Western Asia 42,053 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 19,292 t
- Iran (Islamic Republic of) 13,404 t
- Southern Asia 17,711 t
- Syrian Arab Republic 12,833 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 8,514 t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 6,459 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 4,307 t
- Northern Africa 2,055 t
- Africa 2,055 t
About this data
Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.