Cheese (All Kinds) — Production in European Union (27)
European Union (27): Cheese (All Kinds) — Production was 11.83 million t in 2023. ▲ Rising
Cheese (All Kinds) — Production in European Union (27), 1961–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
European Union (27) recorded 11.83 million t for cheese (all kinds) — production in 2023. That is the highest value across all 63 years on record.
The figure is up 1.2% on the previous year and up 13.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cheese (all kinds) — production in European Union (27) peaked at 11.83 million t in 2023 and was at its lowest, 2.34 million t, in 1961.
European Union (27) ranks 3rd of 27 groups on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 63 years of available data.
Cheese (All Kinds) — Production in European Union (27), year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 2.34 million t | — |
| 1962 | 2.40 million t | +2.6% |
| 1963 | 2.44 million t | +2.0% |
| 1964 | 2.56 million t | +4.7% |
| 1965 | 2.73 million t | +6.6% |
| 1966 | 2.92 million t | +7.1% |
| 1967 | 3.04 million t | +3.9% |
| 1968 | 3.05 million t | +0.4% |
| 1969 | 3.15 million t | +3.2% |
| 1970 | 3.30 million t | +4.9% |
| 1971 | 3.46 million t | +4.9% |
| 1972 | 3.66 million t | +5.7% |
| 1973 | 3.74 million t | +2.2% |
| 1974 | 3.98 million t | +6.4% |
| 1975 | 4.07 million t | +2.2% |
| 1976 | 4.22 million t | +3.8% |
| 1977 | 4.41 million t | +4.6% |
| 1978 | 4.60 million t | +4.2% |
| 1979 | 4.74 million t | +3.1% |
| 1980 | 4.86 million t | +2.7% |
| 1981 | 4.93 million t | +1.4% |
| 1982 | 5.07 million t | +2.7% |
| 1983 | 5.16 million t | +1.8% |
| 1984 | 5.45 million t | +5.7% |
| 1985 | 5.51 million t | +1.2% |
| 1986 | 5.59 million t | +1.4% |
| 1987 | 5.74 million t | +2.7% |
| 1988 | 5.94 million t | +3.5% |
| 1989 | 6.05 million t | +1.8% |
| 1990 | 6.22 million t | +2.7% |
| 1991 | 6.01 million t | -3.4% |
| 1992 | 6.18 million t | +2.9% |
| 1993 | 6.44 million t | +4.2% |
| 1994 | 6.54 million t | +1.6% |
| 1995 | 6.72 million t | +2.8% |
| 1996 | 6.89 million t | +2.5% |
| 1997 | 6.98 million t | +1.4% |
| 1998 | 7.15 million t | +2.3% |
| 1999 | 7.25 million t | +1.4% |
| 2000 | 7.46 million t | +2.9% |
| 2001 | 7.69 million t | +3.0% |
| 2002 | 7.77 million t | +1.0% |
| 2003 | 7.88 million t | +1.4% |
| 2004 | 8.04 million t | +2.1% |
| 2005 | 8.19 million t | +1.8% |
| 2006 | 8.31 million t | +1.4% |
| 2007 | 8.44 million t | +1.6% |
| 2008 | 8.49 million t | +0.6% |
| 2009 | 8.51 million t | +0.2% |
| 2010 | 9.33 million t | +9.7% |
| 2011 | 9.38 million t | +0.5% |
| 2012 | 10.20 million t | +8.8% |
| 2013 | 10.47 million t | +2.6% |
| 2014 | 10.77 million t | +2.9% |
| 2015 | 10.87 million t | +0.9% |
| 2016 | 11.04 million t | +1.6% |
| 2017 | 11.18 million t | +1.2% |
| 2018 | 11.22 million t | +0.4% |
| 2019 | 11.40 million t | +1.6% |
| 2020 | 11.59 million t | +1.7% |
| 2021 | 11.74 million t | +1.3% |
| 2022 | 11.69 million t | -0.5% |
| 2023 | 11.83 million t | +1.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2.74 million t | 2.34 million t | 3.15 million t | 9 |
| 1970s | 4.02 million t | 3.30 million t | 4.74 million t | 10 |
| 1980s | 5.43 million t | 4.86 million t | 6.05 million t | 10 |
| 1990s | 6.64 million t | 6.01 million t | 7.25 million t | 10 |
| 2000s | 8.08 million t | 7.46 million t | 8.51 million t | 10 |
| 2010s | 10.59 million t | 9.33 million t | 11.40 million t | 10 |
| 2020s | 11.71 million t | 11.59 million t | 11.83 million t | 4 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is cheese (all kinds) — production in European Union (27)?
- Cheese (all kinds) — production in European Union (27) was 11.83 million t in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cheese (all kinds) — production recorded in European Union (27)?
- The highest recorded value was 11.83 million t in 2023.
- What is the lowest cheese (all kinds) — production recorded in European Union (27)?
- The lowest recorded value was 2.34 million t in 1961.
- How does European Union (27) rank for cheese (all kinds) — production?
- European Union (27) ranks 3rd out of 27 groups with data for 2023.
- Is cheese (all kinds) — production rising or falling in European Union (27)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 13.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this European Union (27) 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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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.