Cheese (All Kinds) — 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
Cheese (All Kinds) — Production is currently reported for 117 countries. The highest value is 3.04 million t in Germany; the lowest is 0 t in Malta.
The median across all reporting countries is 51,570 t, and the mean is 205,604 t.
Over the past decade 80 countries rose and 35 fell. The largest increase was in Uzbekistan (up 756.2%), and the largest decrease in El Salvador (down 56.6%).
Cheese (All Kinds) — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germany | 3.04 million t | 2023 | down 1.0% | volatile |
| 2 | France | 2.22 million t | 2023 | down 1.8% | rising |
| 3 | USSR | 1.69 million t | 1991 | up 13.6% | rising |
| 4 | Italy | 1.34 million t | 2023 | up 16.1% | rising |
| 5 | Poland | 1.06 million t | 2023 | up 45.2% | rising |
| 6 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 1.02 million t | 2023 | up 25.1% | rising |
| 7 | Türkiye | 830,204 t | 2023 | up 307.0% | volatile |
| 8 | Russian Federation | 791,956 t | 2023 | up 30.9% | rising |
| 9 | Egypt | 765,662 t | 2023 | up 21.2% | volatile |
| 10 | Australia and New Zealand | 749,812 t | 2023 | up 15.5% | volatile |
| 11 | Canada | 599,949 t | 2023 | up 23.5% | volatile |
| 12 | Spain | 535,875 t | 2023 | up 69.8% | volatile |
| 13 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 509,900 t | 2023 | up 32.8% | rising |
| 14 | Denmark | 496,700 t | 2023 | up 52.9% | rising |
| 15 | Argentina | 477,436 t | 2023 | down 12.6% | rising |
| 16 | New Zealand | 375,000 t | 2023 | up 20.6% | volatile |
| 17 | Australia | 374,812 t | 2023 | up 10.8% | volatile |
| 18 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 372,113 t | 2023 | up 84.5% | volatile |
| 19 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 354,106 t | 2023 | up 4.1% | rising |
| 20 | Uzbekistan | 325,453 t | 2023 | up 756.2% | volatile |
| 21 | Belarus | 307,551 t | 2023 | up 128.4% | volatile |
| 22 | Ireland | 288,491 t | 2023 | up 54.7% | volatile |
| 23 | Austria | 267,700 t | 2023 | up 36.6% | rising |
| 24 | Greece | 263,596 t | 2023 | down 27.0% | rising |
| 25 | China | 232,460 t | 2023 | up 7.9% | rising |
| 25 | China, mainland | 232,460 t | 2023 | up 7.9% | rising |
| 27 | Czechia | 218,404 t | 2023 | up 58.5% | rising |
| 28 | Switzerland | 216,417 t | 2023 | up 6.2% | rising |
| 29 | Mexico | 193,285 t | 2023 | up 24.1% | rising |
| 30 | Czechoslovakia | 178,798 t | 1992 | down 4.4% | rising |
| 31 | Belgium | 161,073 t | 2023 | up 59.5% | rising |
| 32 | South Sudan | 158,995 t | 2018 | up 1.6% | flat |
| 33 | Sudan (former) | 155,382 t | 2009 | up 5.7% | volatile |
| 34 | Israel | 151,723 t | 2023 | up 14.6% | volatile |
| 35 | Japan | 151,398 t | 2023 | up 13.7% | rising |
| 36 | Saudi Arabia | 145,379 t | 2023 | down 11.9% | rising |
| 37 | Yugoslav SFR | 134,940 t | 1991 | down 5.0% | rising |
| 38 | Lithuania | 119,498 t | 2023 | down 19.4% | rising |
| 39 | Chile | 112,136 t | 2023 | up 16.7% | volatile |
| 40 | Ecuador | 105,073 t | 2023 | down 11.8% | volatile |
| 41 | Romania | 102,440 t | 2023 | up 45.3% | falling |
| 42 | Sudan | 102,400 t | 2023 | up 2.3% | flat |
| 43 | Bulgaria | 98,310 t | 2023 | up 45.4% | falling |
| 44 | Syrian Arab Republic | 96,431 t | 2023 | down 18.2% | rising |
| 45 | Nicaragua | 95,719 t | 2023 | up 92.9% | volatile |
| 46 | Hungary | 95,531 t | 2023 | up 10.8% | rising |
| 47 | Ukraine | 92,994 t | 2023 | down 49.0% | rising |
| 48 | Finland | 84,720 t | 2023 | down 17.2% | rising |
| 49 | Portugal | 82,010 t | 2023 | up 17.3% | rising |
| 50 | Sweden | 79,440 t | 2023 | down 10.7% | rising |
| 51 | Niger | 78,259 t | 2023 | up 45.1% | volatile |
| 52 | Brazil | 74,672 t | 2023 | up 59.9% | rising |
| 53 | Uruguay | 73,277 t | 2023 | down 10.9% | volatile |
| 54 | Colombia | 66,506 t | 2023 | up 7.9% | rising |
| 55 | Belgium-Luxembourg | 65,000 t | 1999 | down 2.2% | rising |
| 56 | Azerbaijan | 64,891 t | 2023 | down 1.7% | rising |
| 57 | Norway | 64,487 t | 2023 | down 15.4% | rising |
| 58 | Latvia | 62,062 t | 2023 | up 88.0% | volatile |
| 59 | Estonia | 51,570 t | 2023 | up 17.7% | rising |
| 60 | Myanmar | 50,226 t | 2023 | down 54.4% | volatile |
| 61 | Serbia | 48,944 t | 2023 | up 60.8% | rising |
| 62 | Kazakhstan | 45,217 t | 2023 | up 100.5% | rising |
| 63 | Slovakia | 45,144 t | 2023 | up 34.8% | falling |
| 64 | Cyprus | 40,850 t | 2023 | up 105.8% | volatile |
| 65 | Croatia | 33,000 t | 2023 | down 1.9% | rising |
| 66 | Albania | 29,959 t | 2023 | up 60.2% | volatile |
| 67 | Morocco | 26,924 t | 2023 | down 16.2% | volatile |
| 68 | Costa Rica | 26,177 t | 2023 | up 85.1% | volatile |
| 69 | United Republic of Tanzania | 25,144 t | 2023 | up 86.7% | volatile |
| 70 | Yemen | 25,001 t | 2023 | up 20.8% | volatile |
| 71 | Lebanon | 24,763 t | 2023 | down 0.7% | rising |
| 72 | Afghanistan | 22,179 t | 2023 | down 4.7% | rising |
| 73 | India | 21,375 t | 2023 | up 620.4% | volatile |
| 74 | Peru | 21,081 t | 2023 | down 1.7% | falling |
| 75 | Guatemala | 18,179 t | 2023 | up 24.5% | rising |
| 76 | Armenia | 17,516 t | 2023 | up 0.8% | volatile |
| 77 | Caribbean | 16,742 t | 2023 | down 21.0% | rising |
| 78 | Iraq | 16,037 t | 2023 | up 13.0% | falling |
| 79 | Serbia and Montenegro | 16,000 t | 2005 | up 51.4% | flat |
| 80 | Slovenia | 15,460 t | 2023 | down 3.3% | falling |
| 81 | Tajikistan | 14,504 t | 2023 | down 23.3% | rising |
| 82 | Iceland | 14,447 t | 2023 | up 33.0% | volatile |
| 83 | Honduras | 14,130 t | 2023 | up 3.7% | rising |
| 84 | Panama | 13,748 t | 2023 | down 9.7% | volatile |
| 85 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 10,569 t | 2023 | down 5.4% | rising |
| 86 | Palestine | 10,238 t | 2022 | up 76.3% | rising |
| 87 | Montenegro | 9,725 t | 2023 | up 0.6% | rising |
| 88 | Nigeria | 9,559 t | 2023 | down 7.3% | rising |
| 89 | Cuba | 9,533 t | 2023 | down 42.9% | rising |
| 90 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 9,153 t | 2023 | up 102.3% | volatile |
| 91 | Jordan | 8,879 t | 2023 | up 26.0% | volatile |
| 92 | Republic of Moldova | 8,214 t | 2023 | up 17.0% | rising |
| 93 | Tunisia | 7,936 t | 2023 | up 10.6% | volatile |
| 94 | Mauritania | 7,800 t | 2023 | up 14.5% | volatile |
| 95 | Dominican Republic | 7,209 t | 2023 | up 60.2% | volatile |
| 96 | North Macedonia | 6,866 t | 2023 | down 14.2% | volatile |
| 97 | Ethiopia | 6,746 t | 2023 | up 21.1% | rising |
| 98 | Zambia | 6,062 t | 2023 | up 22.8% | volatile |
| 99 | Kyrgyzstan | 5,204 t | 2023 | up 59.8% | volatile |
| 100 | Oman | 5,203 t | 2023 | up 60.7% | volatile |
| 101 | Turkmenistan | 4,682 t | 2023 | up 146.7% | rising |
| 102 | Ethiopia PDR | 3,600 t | 1992 | up 20.6% | rising |
| 103 | Botswana | 2,896 t | 2023 | down 55.5% | volatile |
| 104 | Algeria | 2,620 t | 2023 | up 17.5% | volatile |
| 105 | Zimbabwe | 2,601 t | 2023 | up 3.8% | rising |
| 106 | Thailand | 2,460 t | 2023 | down 35.5% | volatile |
| 107 | Bhutan | 2,323 t | 2023 | down 2.5% | volatile |
| 108 | Mongolia | 1,963 t | 2023 | up 8.8% | rising |
| 109 | Angola | 1,407 t | 2023 | up 4.3% | rising |
| 110 | Bangladesh | 1,305 t | 2023 | up 30.5% | rising |
| 111 | El Salvador | 1,280 t | 2023 | down 56.6% | rising |
| 112 | Eritrea | 720 t | 2023 | up 11.1% | rising |
| 113 | Namibia | 434.48 t | 2023 | up 15.9% | volatile |
| 114 | Kenya | 413.02 t | 2023 | up 29.1% | falling |
| 115 | Georgia | 41.04 t | 2023 | up 2.6% | volatile |
| 116 | Luxembourg | 0 t | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 116 | Malta | 0 t | 2023 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 27.35 million t
- Europe 13.90 million t
- European Union (27) 11.83 million t
- Americas 8.92 million t
- Northern America 7.23 million t
- Western Europe 6.92 million t
- United States of America 6.63 million t
- Eastern Europe 2.82 million t
- Asia 2.67 million t
- Southern Europe 2.38 million t
- Northern Europe 1.77 million t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 1.57 million 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.