Cheese (All Kinds) — Production in Caribbean
Caribbean: Cheese (All Kinds) — Production was 16,742 t in 2023. ▲ Rising
Cheese (All Kinds) — Production in Caribbean, 1961–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
Caribbean recorded 16,742 t for cheese (all kinds) — production in 2023.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 13.7% on the previous year and down 21.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cheese (all kinds) — production in Caribbean peaked at 31,510 t in 2019 and was at its lowest, 1,488 t, in 1969.
Caribbean ranks 27th of 27 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 63 years of available data.
Cheese (All Kinds) — Production in Caribbean, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,024 t | — |
| 1962 | 5,105 t | +1.6% |
| 1963 | 5,691 t | +11.5% |
| 1964 | 5,092 t | -10.5% |
| 1965 | 1,916 t | -62.4% |
| 1966 | 2,439 t | +27.3% |
| 1967 | 2,237 t | -8.3% |
| 1968 | 1,587 t | -29.1% |
| 1969 | 1,488 t | -6.2% |
| 1970 | 2,600 t | +74.7% |
| 1971 | 2,881 t | +10.8% |
| 1972 | 2,803 t | -2.7% |
| 1973 | 5,539 t | +97.6% |
| 1974 | 5,326 t | -3.8% |
| 1975 | 8,154 t | +53.1% |
| 1976 | 8,003 t | -1.9% |
| 1977 | 11,540 t | +44.2% |
| 1978 | 10,082 t | -12.6% |
| 1979 | 11,655 t | +15.6% |
| 1980 | 13,562 t | +16.4% |
| 1981 | 14,515 t | +7.0% |
| 1982 | 12,334 t | -15.0% |
| 1983 | 14,131 t | +14.6% |
| 1984 | 16,811 t | +19.0% |
| 1985 | 16,726 t | -0.5% |
| 1986 | 17,729 t | +6.0% |
| 1987 | 18,036 t | +1.7% |
| 1988 | 18,613 t | +3.2% |
| 1989 | 18,717 t | +0.6% |
| 1990 | 18,800 t | +0.4% |
| 1991 | 18,800 t | +0.0% |
| 1992 | 17,500 t | -6.9% |
| 1993 | 17,000 t | -2.9% |
| 1994 | 17,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1995 | 17,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 17,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1997 | 17,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1998 | 17,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1999 | 17,000 t | +0.0% |
| 2000 | 17,000 t | +0.0% |
| 2001 | 17,150 t | +0.9% |
| 2002 | 18,350 t | +7.0% |
| 2003 | 18,200 t | -0.8% |
| 2004 | 17,800 t | -2.2% |
| 2005 | 17,800 t | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 18,310 t | +2.9% |
| 2007 | 18,440 t | +0.7% |
| 2008 | 18,610 t | +0.9% |
| 2009 | 17,940 t | -3.6% |
| 2010 | 21,025 t | +17.2% |
| 2011 | 20,300 t | -3.4% |
| 2012 | 22,700 t | +11.8% |
| 2013 | 21,200 t | -6.6% |
| 2014 | 21,858 t | +3.1% |
| 2015 | 24,002 t | +9.8% |
| 2016 | 28,328 t | +18.0% |
| 2017 | 22,293 t | -21.3% |
| 2018 | 23,692 t | +6.3% |
| 2019 | 31,510 t | +33.0% |
| 2020 | 26,642 t | -15.4% |
| 2021 | 19,613 t | -26.4% |
| 2022 | 19,394 t | -1.1% |
| 2023 | 16,742 t | -13.7% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Cheese (All Kinds) — Production in Caribbean changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | +97.6% | 2,803 t | 5,539 t |
| 1970 | +74.7% | 1,488 t | 2,600 t |
| 1965 | -62.4% | 5,092 t | 1,916 t |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,398 t | 1,488 t | 5,691 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,858 t | 2,600 t | 11,655 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 16,117 t | 12,334 t | 18,717 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 17,410 t | 17,000 t | 18,800 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 17,960 t | 17,000 t | 18,610 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 23,691 t | 20,300 t | 31,510 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 20,598 t | 16,742 t | 26,642 t | 4 |
Countries ranked near Caribbean
- 24 Czechia 218,404 t compare
- 25 Switzerland 216,417 t compare
- 26 Mexico 193,285 t compare
- 27 Czechoslovakia 178,798 t compare
- 28 Belgium 161,073 t compare
- 29 South Sudan 158,995 t compare
- 30 Sudan (former) 155,382 t compare
More agriculture & rural data for Caribbean
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross Production Value 6.56 % change on previous year (2024)
- Raw milk of cattle — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 1.98 % change on previous year (2024)
- Potatoes — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 6.87 % change on previous year (2024)
- Other vegetables, fresh n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant) 3.46 % change on previous year (2024)
- Other fruits, n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 5.08 % change on previous year (2024)
- Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — Gross Production 12.25 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross -2.69 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 8.98 % change on previous year (2024)
- Maize (corn) — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 17.88 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables and Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant) 13.21 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cheese (all kinds) — production in Caribbean?
- Cheese (all kinds) — production in Caribbean was 16,742 t in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cheese (all kinds) — production recorded in Caribbean?
- The highest recorded value was 31,510 t in 2019.
- What is the lowest cheese (all kinds) — production recorded in Caribbean?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,488 t in 1969.
- How does Caribbean rank for cheese (all kinds) — production?
- Caribbean ranks 27th out of 27 countries with data for 2023.
- Is cheese (all kinds) — production rising or falling in Caribbean?
- Over the last ten years it is down 21.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Caribbean data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Cheese (All Kinds) — Production. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.