Butter and Ghee — 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 — Production is currently reported for 134 countries. The highest value is 5.48 million t in India; the lowest is 16.03 t in Togo.
The median across all reporting countries is 8,549 t, and the mean is 109,073 t.
Over the past decade 93 countries rose and 41 fell. The largest increase was in Uganda (up 588.2%), and the largest decrease in Cuba (down 74.9%).
Butter and Ghee — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | 5.48 million t | 2023 | up 44.5% | volatile |
| 2 | USSR | 1.51 million t | 1991 | up 14.7% | rising |
| 3 | Pakistan | 1.27 million t | 2023 | up 27.3% | volatile |
| 3 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 214,077 t | 2023 | up 3.3% | volatile |
| 4 | Australia and New Zealand | 536,750 t | 2023 | up 3.8% | rising |
| 4 | Türkiye | 150,492 t | 2023 | down 28.9% | rising |
| 5 | Germany | 468,880 t | 2023 | down 0.9% | falling |
| 5 | United Republic of Tanzania | 60,925 t | 2023 | up 86.7% | volatile |
| 6 | New Zealand | 462,400 t | 2023 | up 18.6% | rising |
| 6 | Syrian Arab Republic | 20,786 t | 2023 | down 3.7% | rising |
| 7 | France | 403,970 t | 2023 | up 0.7% | falling |
| 8 | Russian Federation | 301,223 t | 2023 | up 32.7% | falling |
| 8 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 3,423 t | 2023 | up 153.6% | volatile |
| 9 | Ireland | 299,300 t | 2023 | up 48.3% | rising |
| 9 | Republic of Moldova | 3,002 t | 2023 | down 27.8% | volatile |
| 10 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 266,700 t | 2023 | up 33.9% | rising |
| 10 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 1,561 t | 2023 | up 13.1% | volatile |
| 11 | Poland | 264,950 t | 2023 | up 64.5% | falling |
| 12 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 200,900 t | 2023 | up 38.6% | rising |
| 12 | Melanesia | 1,144 t | 2023 | down 39.5% | rising |
| 13 | Brazil | 145,582 t | 2023 | up 51.2% | rising |
| 14 | Belarus | 130,403 t | 2023 | up 31.5% | rising |
| 15 | Belgium | 119,860 t | 2023 | up 230.1% | falling |
| 16 | China | 119,425 t | 2023 | up 18.2% | volatile |
| 17 | China, mainland | 119,298 t | 2023 | up 18.2% | volatile |
| 18 | Czechoslovakia | 118,000 t | 1992 | down 14.8% | rising |
| 19 | Belgium-Luxembourg | 117,116 t | 1999 | up 32.2% | flat |
| 20 | Canada | 114,903 t | 2023 | up 28.6% | falling |
| 21 | Uzbekistan | 104,805 t | 2023 | up 75.9% | volatile |
| 22 | Egypt | 100,609 t | 2023 | down 17.5% | rising |
| 23 | Denmark | 95,800 t | 2023 | up 123.8% | falling |
| 24 | Italy | 94,400 t | 2023 | down 4.0% | rising |
| 25 | Australia | 74,350 t | 2023 | down 41.4% | falling |
| 26 | Nepal | 67,440 t | 2023 | up 42.6% | volatile |
| 27 | Japan | 67,337 t | 2023 | down 1.4% | rising |
| 27 | Caribbean | 3,355 t | 2023 | up 26.6% | volatile |
| 28 | Republic of Korea | 63,403 t | 2023 | down 6.4% | volatile |
| 29 | Finland | 57,880 t | 2023 | up 8.9% | falling |
| 30 | Ukraine | 47,300 t | 2023 | down 49.9% | volatile |
| 31 | Spain | 46,680 t | 2023 | up 31.5% | volatile |
| 32 | Argentina | 43,510 t | 2023 | down 21.1% | rising |
| 33 | Afghanistan | 43,333 t | 2023 | up 21.3% | rising |
| 34 | Switzerland | 42,093 t | 2023 | down 9.7% | rising |
| 35 | Sweden | 40,980 t | 2023 | up 18.1% | falling |
| 36 | Bangladesh | 38,537 t | 2023 | up 42.6% | rising |
| 37 | Austria | 33,820 t | 2023 | up 0.7% | falling |
| 38 | Portugal | 31,590 t | 2023 | up 22.8% | volatile |
| 39 | Kazakhstan | 30,928 t | 2023 | up 119.7% | volatile |
| 40 | Chile | 29,804 t | 2023 | up 38.2% | volatile |
| 41 | Morocco | 29,637 t | 2023 | down 13.9% | volatile |
| 42 | Azerbaijan | 27,022 t | 2023 | up 23.5% | rising |
| 43 | Mexico | 26,234 t | 2023 | up 25.5% | rising |
| 44 | Czechia | 25,780 t | 2023 | down 12.6% | falling |
| 45 | Colombia | 23,419 t | 2023 | up 7.9% | rising |
| 46 | Niger | 21,933 t | 2023 | up 67.9% | volatile |
| 47 | Uruguay | 21,768 t | 2023 | down 31.1% | volatile |
| 48 | Ethiopia | 20,237 t | 2023 | up 21.1% | rising |
| 49 | Kenya | 20,215 t | 2023 | up 30.0% | volatile |
| 50 | South Africa | 18,820 t | 2023 | down 4.5% | volatile |
| 51 | Sudan (former) | 17,793 t | 2009 | up 11.7% | rising |
| 52 | Myanmar | 17,621 t | 2023 | down 54.4% | volatile |
| 53 | Norway | 16,000 t | 2023 | up 3.2% | falling |
| 54 | South Sudan | 15,482 t | 2018 | up 2.4% | flat |
| 55 | Saudi Arabia | 13,998 t | 2023 | up 113.1% | volatile |
| 56 | Lithuania | 13,990 t | 2023 | up 6.5% | volatile |
| 57 | Nigeria | 11,939 t | 2023 | down 7.3% | rising |
| 58 | Mongolia | 11,186 t | 2023 | down 18.2% | volatile |
| 59 | Ethiopia PDR | 10,800 t | 1992 | up 20.6% | rising |
| 60 | Romania | 9,330 t | 2023 | down 4.8% | volatile |
| 61 | Slovakia | 9,250 t | 2023 | up 1.9% | falling |
| 62 | Somalia | 8,836 t | 2023 | down 8.9% | rising |
| 63 | Costa Rica | 8,659 t | 2023 | up 19.0% | rising |
| 64 | Hungary | 8,440 t | 2023 | down 10.3% | volatile |
| 65 | Tunisia | 8,272 t | 2023 | up 18.5% | volatile |
| 66 | Yugoslav SFR | 8,104 t | 1991 | down 14.7% | falling |
| 67 | Yemen | 7,691 t | 2023 | up 10.3% | rising |
| 68 | Honduras | 6,977 t | 2023 | up 0.4% | rising |
| 69 | Israel | 6,730 t | 2023 | up 18.1% | rising |
| 70 | Panama | 6,471 t | 2023 | up 18.2% | volatile |
| 71 | Uganda | 6,116 t | 2023 | up 588.2% | volatile |
| 72 | Iraq | 5,780 t | 2023 | up 5.9% | falling |
| 73 | Serbia | 5,330 t | 2023 | up 2.3% | rising |
| 74 | Peru | 5,082 t | 2023 | up 42.1% | volatile |
| 75 | Kyrgyzstan | 4,863 t | 2023 | up 144.2% | volatile |
| 76 | Estonia | 4,600 t | 2023 | up 31.1% | volatile |
| 77 | Algeria | 4,509 t | 2023 | down 28.2% | volatile |
| 78 | Croatia | 3,900 t | 2023 | down 19.9% | rising |
| 79 | Thailand | 3,723 t | 2023 | up 72.1% | rising |
| 80 | North Macedonia | 3,469 t | 2023 | down 40.2% | falling |
| 81 | Latvia | 3,230 t | 2023 | down 41.5% | volatile |
| 82 | Dominican Republic | 3,192 t | 2023 | up 59.6% | volatile |
| 83 | United Arab Emirates | 2,797 t | 2023 | up 7.9% | volatile |
| 84 | Turkmenistan | 2,730 t | 2023 | down 9.0% | rising |
| 85 | Albania | 2,626 t | 2023 | down 29.0% | volatile |
| 86 | Sri Lanka | 2,623 t | 2023 | up 316.3% | volatile |
| 87 | Serbia and Montenegro | 2,600 t | 2005 | up 50.0% | flat |
| 88 | Slovenia | 2,539 t | 2023 | up 10.9% | falling |
| 89 | Iceland | 2,497 t | 2023 | up 18.9% | rising |
| 90 | Ecuador | 2,476 t | 2023 | down 11.6% | volatile |
| 91 | Zimbabwe | 2,199 t | 2023 | up 3.8% | rising |
| 92 | Greece | 2,160 t | 2023 | up 8.3% | falling |
| 93 | Rwanda | 1,949 t | 2023 | down 7.8% | volatile |
| 94 | Guatemala | 1,876 t | 2023 | up 24.5% | volatile |
| 95 | Burkina Faso | 1,730 t | 2023 | up 65.5% | rising |
| 96 | Zambia | 1,718 t | 2023 | up 22.4% | volatile |
| 97 | Bhutan | 1,716 t | 2023 | up 29.8% | rising |
| 98 | Oman | 1,621 t | 2023 | up 65.0% | volatile |
| 99 | Eritrea | 1,620 t | 2023 | up 11.1% | rising |
| 100 | Paraguay | 1,577 t | 2023 | up 112.0% | volatile |
| 101 | Fiji | 1,144 t | 2023 | down 39.5% | rising |
| 102 | Mauritania | 1,084 t | 2023 | up 28.8% | rising |
| 103 | Bulgaria | 950 t | 2023 | down 14.4% | volatile |
| 104 | Nicaragua | 847.75 t | 2023 | up 101.4% | falling |
| 105 | Senegal | 771.83 t | 2023 | down 3.6% | rising |
| 106 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 679.47 t | 2023 | up 72.9% | volatile |
| 107 | Chad | 668.57 t | 2023 | up 125.3% | rising |
| 108 | Namibia | 570.27 t | 2023 | up 18.8% | volatile |
| 109 | Angola | 562.93 t | 2023 | up 4.3% | rising |
| 110 | Luxembourg | 559.13 t | 2023 | up 73.6% | rising |
| 111 | Montenegro | 498.65 t | 2023 | down 32.5% | rising |
| 112 | Botswana | 491.4 t | 2023 | up 13.5% | falling |
| 113 | Guinea | 473.96 t | 2023 | up 11.6% | volatile |
| 114 | Georgia | 410.36 t | 2023 | up 2.6% | volatile |
| 115 | El Salvador | 387.61 t | 2023 | up 89.1% | rising |
| 116 | Armenia | 387.28 t | 2023 | down 29.2% | volatile |
| 117 | Burundi | 244.86 t | 2023 | up 18.7% | rising |
| 118 | Eswatini | 187.86 t | 2023 | down 1.8% | rising |
| 119 | Sudan | 176.13 t | 2023 | up 7.6% | rising |
| 120 | Cuba | 163 t | 2023 | down 74.9% | volatile |
| 121 | China, Taiwan Province of | 127.33 t | 2023 | up 39.5% | volatile |
| 122 | Tajikistan | 103.2 t | 2023 | up 416.0% | volatile |
| 123 | Cyprus | 50 t | 2023 | up 400.0% | volatile |
| 124 | Suriname | 20.65 t | 2023 | down 31.2% | volatile |
| 125 | Togo | 16.03 t | 2023 | up 6.9% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 13.13 million t
- Asia 7.78 million t
- Southern Asia 7.11 million t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 303,685 t
- Europe 3.07 million t
- European Union (27) 2.31 million t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 1.77 million t
- Americas 1.42 million t
- Western Europe 1.34 million t
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 4,519 t
- Northern America 1.08 million t
- United States of America 969,319 t
- Eastern Europe 800,628 t
- Northern Europe 735,177 t
- Middle Africa 1,232 t
- Oceania 537,894 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 399,065 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 361,597 t
- Africa 326,514 t
- South America 278,223 t
- Eastern Asia 261,351 t
- Western Asia 240,114 t
- Southern Europe 193,872 t
- Central Asia 143,429 t
- Northern Africa 143,205 t
- Eastern Africa 124,059 t
- Central America 51,452 t
- Western Africa 37,949 t
- South-Eastern Asia 21,824 t
- Southern Africa 20,070 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.