Butter of cow 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 of cow milk — Production is currently reported for 118 countries. The highest value is 1.51 million t in USSR; the lowest is 16.03 t in Togo.
The median across all reporting countries is 6,854 t, and the mean is 59,939 t.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 94,323.
Over the past decade 80 countries rose and 38 fell. The largest increase was in Uganda (up 941.1%), and the largest decrease in Cuba (down 74.9%).
Butter of cow milk — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | USSR | 1.51 million t | 1991 | up 14.7% | rising |
| 2 | Australia and New Zealand | 527,271 t | 2023 | up 3.7% | rising |
| 3 | Germany | 468,880 t | 2023 | down 0.9% | falling |
| 4 | New Zealand | 462,400 t | 2023 | up 18.6% | rising |
| 5 | France | 403,970 t | 2023 | up 0.7% | falling |
| 6 | Russian Federation | 301,223 t | 2023 | up 32.7% | falling |
| 7 | Ireland | 299,300 t | 2023 | up 48.3% | rising |
| 8 | Poland | 264,950 t | 2023 | up 64.5% | falling |
| 9 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 206,700 t | 2023 | up 3.8% | rising |
| 10 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 200,900 t | 2023 | up 38.6% | rising |
| 11 | Brazil | 145,582 t | 2023 | up 51.2% | rising |
| 12 | Belarus | 130,403 t | 2023 | up 31.5% | rising |
| 13 | Belgium | 119,860 t | 2023 | up 230.1% | falling |
| 14 | Czechoslovakia | 118,000 t | 1992 | down 14.8% | rising |
| 15 | Belgium-Luxembourg | 117,116 t | 1999 | up 32.2% | flat |
| 16 | Canada | 114,903 t | 2023 | up 28.6% | falling |
| 17 | China | 109,579 t | 2023 | up 19.3% | volatile |
| 18 | China, mainland | 109,452 t | 2023 | up 19.2% | volatile |
| 19 | Uzbekistan | 104,805 t | 2023 | up 75.9% | volatile |
| 20 | Denmark | 95,800 t | 2023 | up 123.8% | falling |
| 21 | Italy | 94,400 t | 2023 | down 4.0% | rising |
| 22 | Japan | 67,337 t | 2023 | down 1.4% | rising |
| 23 | Australia | 64,871 t | 2023 | down 45.1% | falling |
| 24 | Republic of Korea | 63,403 t | 2023 | down 6.4% | volatile |
| 25 | Finland | 57,880 t | 2023 | up 8.9% | falling |
| 26 | Egypt | 53,028 t | 2023 | up 58.3% | rising |
| 27 | Ukraine | 47,300 t | 2023 | down 49.9% | volatile |
| 28 | Spain | 46,680 t | 2023 | up 31.5% | volatile |
| 29 | Switzerland | 42,093 t | 2023 | down 9.7% | rising |
| 30 | Sweden | 40,980 t | 2023 | up 18.1% | falling |
| 31 | Afghanistan | 39,026 t | 2023 | up 26.7% | volatile |
| 32 | Argentina | 34,703 t | 2023 | down 30.7% | rising |
| 33 | Austria | 33,820 t | 2023 | up 0.7% | falling |
| 34 | Portugal | 31,590 t | 2023 | up 22.8% | volatile |
| 35 | Kazakhstan | 30,928 t | 2023 | up 119.7% | volatile |
| 36 | Chile | 28,020 t | 2023 | up 29.9% | volatile |
| 37 | Morocco | 27,912 t | 2023 | down 14.5% | volatile |
| 38 | Azerbaijan | 27,022 t | 2023 | up 23.5% | rising |
| 39 | Mexico | 26,234 t | 2023 | up 25.5% | rising |
| 40 | Czechia | 25,780 t | 2023 | down 12.6% | falling |
| 41 | Colombia | 23,419 t | 2023 | up 7.9% | rising |
| 42 | Niger | 21,933 t | 2023 | up 67.9% | volatile |
| 43 | Uruguay | 21,123 t | 2023 | down 31.8% | rising |
| 44 | Kenya | 19,505 t | 2023 | up 30.0% | volatile |
| 45 | Sudan (former) | 17,793 t | 2009 | up 11.7% | rising |
| 46 | Myanmar | 17,621 t | 2023 | down 54.4% | volatile |
| 47 | Norway | 16,000 t | 2023 | up 3.2% | falling |
| 48 | South Africa | 15,900 t | 2023 | down 15.2% | volatile |
| 49 | South Sudan | 15,482 t | 2018 | up 2.4% | flat |
| 50 | Lithuania | 13,990 t | 2023 | up 6.5% | volatile |
| 51 | Saudi Arabia | 12,130 t | 2023 | up 236.9% | volatile |
| 52 | Nigeria | 11,939 t | 2023 | down 7.3% | rising |
| 53 | Romania | 9,330 t | 2023 | down 4.8% | volatile |
| 54 | Slovakia | 9,250 t | 2023 | up 1.9% | falling |
| 55 | Costa Rica | 8,659 t | 2023 | up 19.0% | rising |
| 56 | Hungary | 8,440 t | 2023 | down 10.3% | volatile |
| 57 | Yugoslav SFR | 8,104 t | 1991 | down 14.7% | falling |
| 58 | Tunisia | 7,942 t | 2023 | up 20.3% | volatile |
| 59 | Honduras | 6,977 t | 2023 | up 0.4% | rising |
| 60 | Israel | 6,730 t | 2023 | up 18.1% | rising |
| 61 | Panama | 6,471 t | 2023 | up 18.2% | volatile |
| 62 | Peru | 5,082 t | 2023 | up 42.1% | volatile |
| 63 | Kyrgyzstan | 4,863 t | 2023 | up 144.2% | volatile |
| 64 | Estonia | 4,600 t | 2023 | up 31.1% | volatile |
| 65 | Algeria | 4,509 t | 2023 | down 28.2% | volatile |
| 66 | Croatia | 3,900 t | 2023 | down 19.9% | rising |
| 67 | Thailand | 3,723 t | 2023 | up 72.1% | rising |
| 68 | Iraq | 3,684 t | 2023 | up 9.8% | falling |
| 69 | North Macedonia | 3,469 t | 2023 | down 40.2% | falling |
| 70 | Latvia | 3,230 t | 2023 | down 41.5% | volatile |
| 71 | Dominican Republic | 3,192 t | 2023 | up 59.6% | volatile |
| 72 | Uganda | 3,000 t | 2023 | up 941.1% | volatile |
| 73 | Mongolia | 2,796 t | 2023 | up 179.7% | volatile |
| 74 | Turkmenistan | 2,730 t | 2023 | down 9.0% | rising |
| 75 | Albania | 2,626 t | 2023 | down 29.0% | volatile |
| 76 | Sri Lanka | 2,623 t | 2023 | up 316.3% | volatile |
| 77 | Serbia and Montenegro | 2,600 t | 2005 | up 50.0% | flat |
| 78 | Slovenia | 2,539 t | 2023 | up 10.9% | falling |
| 79 | Iceland | 2,497 t | 2023 | up 18.9% | rising |
| 80 | Ecuador | 2,476 t | 2023 | down 11.6% | volatile |
| 81 | Ethiopia | 2,249 t | 2023 | up 21.1% | rising |
| 82 | Zimbabwe | 2,199 t | 2023 | up 3.8% | rising |
| 83 | Greece | 2,160 t | 2023 | up 8.3% | falling |
| 84 | Rwanda | 1,949 t | 2023 | down 7.8% | volatile |
| 85 | Guatemala | 1,876 t | 2023 | up 24.5% | volatile |
| 86 | Zambia | 1,718 t | 2023 | up 22.4% | volatile |
| 87 | Bhutan | 1,716 t | 2023 | up 29.8% | rising |
| 88 | Serbia | 1,665 t | 2023 | down 30.0% | flat |
| 89 | Paraguay | 1,577 t | 2023 | up 112.0% | volatile |
| 90 | Bangladesh | 1,488 t | 2023 | up 29.4% | rising |
| 91 | United Arab Emirates | 1,339 t | 2023 | down 19.6% | volatile |
| 92 | Ethiopia PDR | 1,200 t | 1992 | up 20.6% | rising |
| 93 | Fiji | 1,144 t | 2023 | down 39.5% | rising |
| 94 | Pakistan | 1,110 t | 2023 | down 18.1% | rising |
| 95 | Mauritania | 1,084 t | 2023 | up 28.8% | rising |
| 96 | Bulgaria | 950 t | 2023 | down 14.4% | volatile |
| 97 | Nicaragua | 847.75 t | 2023 | up 101.4% | falling |
| 98 | Senegal | 771.83 t | 2023 | down 3.6% | rising |
| 99 | Eritrea | 720 t | 2023 | up 11.1% | rising |
| 100 | Chad | 668.57 t | 2023 | up 125.3% | rising |
| 101 | Namibia | 570.27 t | 2023 | up 18.8% | volatile |
| 102 | Angola | 562.93 t | 2023 | up 4.3% | rising |
| 103 | Luxembourg | 559.13 t | 2023 | up 73.6% | rising |
| 104 | Montenegro | 498.65 t | 2023 | down 32.5% | rising |
| 105 | Botswana | 491.4 t | 2023 | up 13.5% | falling |
| 106 | Guinea | 473.96 t | 2023 | up 11.6% | volatile |
| 107 | Georgia | 410.36 t | 2023 | up 2.6% | volatile |
| 108 | El Salvador | 387.61 t | 2023 | up 89.1% | rising |
| 109 | Armenia | 387.28 t | 2023 | down 29.2% | volatile |
| 110 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 240 t | 2023 | down 38.9% | volatile |
| 111 | Eswatini | 187.86 t | 2023 | down 1.8% | rising |
| 112 | Sudan | 176.13 t | 2023 | up 7.6% | rising |
| 113 | Cuba | 163 t | 2023 | down 74.9% | volatile |
| 114 | China, Taiwan Province of | 127.33 t | 2023 | up 39.5% | volatile |
| 115 | Tajikistan | 103.2 t | 2023 | up 416.0% | volatile |
| 116 | Cyprus | 50 t | 2023 | up 400.0% | volatile |
| 117 | Suriname | 20.65 t | 2023 | down 31.2% | volatile |
| 118 | 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 5.98 million t
- Asia 839,373 t
- Europe 3.00 million t
- Iran (Islamic Republic of) 200,673 t
- European Union (27) 2.25 million t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 134,075 t
- Americas 1.39 million t
- Türkiye 126,796 t
- Western Europe 1.28 million t
- United Republic of Tanzania 40,617 t
- Northern America 1.07 million t
- Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 4,519 t
- United States of America 957,773 t
- Syrian Arab Republic 3,470 t
- Eastern Europe 800,628 t
- Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 3,423 t
- Northern Europe 735,177 t
- Republic of Moldova 3,002 t
- Oceania 528,415 t
- Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 1,561 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 273,530 t
- Middle Africa 1,232 t
- South America 266,987 t
- Melanesia 1,144 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 258,381 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 248,477 t
- Southern Asia 246,636 t
- Eastern Asia 243,116 t
- Africa 220,124 t
- Southern Europe 189,768 t
- Western Asia 184,368 t
- Central Asia 143,429 t
- Northern Africa 93,568 t
- Eastern Africa 71,956 t
- Central America 51,452 t
- Western Africa 36,219 t
- South-Eastern Asia 21,824 t
- Southern Africa 17,150 t
- Caribbean 3,355 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.