Cheese (All Kinds) — Production in Northern America
Northern America: Cheese (All Kinds) — Production was 7.23 million t in 2023. ▲ Rising
Cheese (All Kinds) — Production in Northern America, 1961–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
The most recent figure for cheese (all kinds) — production in Northern America is 7.23 million t, measured in 2023. That is the highest value across all 63 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.4% on the previous year and up 22.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cheese (all kinds) — production in Northern America peaked at 7.23 million t in 2023 and was at its lowest, 1.16 million t, in 1962.
Northern America ranks 5th of 27 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 63 years of available data.
Cheese (All Kinds) — Production in Northern America, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1.18 million t | — |
| 1962 | 1.16 million t | -1.3% |
| 1963 | 1.20 million t | +3.0% |
| 1964 | 1.26 million t | +5.2% |
| 1965 | 1.28 million t | +1.9% |
| 1966 | 1.33 million t | +3.9% |
| 1967 | 1.37 million t | +2.3% |
| 1968 | 1.40 million t | +2.3% |
| 1969 | 1.45 million t | +3.6% |
| 1970 | 1.59 million t | +9.7% |
| 1971 | 1.71 million t | +7.4% |
| 1972 | 1.82 million t | +6.9% |
| 1973 | 1.85 million t | +1.4% |
| 1974 | 1.93 million t | +4.4% |
| 1975 | 1.87 million t | -3.1% |
| 1976 | 2.12 million t | +13.1% |
| 1977 | 2.15 million t | +1.4% |
| 1978 | 2.24 million t | +4.1% |
| 1979 | 2.33 million t | +4.4% |
| 1980 | 2.47 million t | +5.9% |
| 1981 | 2.60 million t | +5.1% |
| 1982 | 2.70 million t | +4.0% |
| 1983 | 2.84 million t | +5.0% |
| 1984 | 2.78 million t | -2.0% |
| 1985 | 2.99 million t | +7.4% |
| 1986 | 3.06 million t | +2.5% |
| 1987 | 3.13 million t | +2.3% |
| 1988 | 3.24 million t | +3.4% |
| 1989 | 3.22 million t | -0.4% |
| 1990 | 3.41 million t | +5.9% |
| 1991 | 3.41 million t | -0.1% |
| 1992 | 3.59 million t | +5.3% |
| 1993 | 3.59 million t | +0.1% |
| 1994 | 3.69 million t | +2.8% |
| 1995 | 3.81 million t | +3.1% |
| 1996 | 3.94 million t | +3.4% |
| 1997 | 4.00 million t | +1.7% |
| 1998 | 4.08 million t | +1.9% |
| 1999 | 4.28 million t | +4.9% |
| 2000 | 4.44 million t | +3.7% |
| 2001 | 4.44 million t | -0.0% |
| 2002 | 4.58 million t | +3.1% |
| 2003 | 4.60 million t | +0.5% |
| 2004 | 4.75 million t | +3.3% |
| 2005 | 4.89 million t | +2.8% |
| 2006 | 5.06 million t | +3.6% |
| 2007 | 5.16 million t | +1.9% |
| 2008 | 5.25 million t | +1.7% |
| 2009 | 5.33 million t | +1.6% |
| 2010 | 5.57 million t | +4.4% |
| 2011 | 5.64 million t | +1.3% |
| 2012 | 5.79 million t | +2.7% |
| 2013 | 5.88 million t | +1.6% |
| 2014 | 6.11 million t | +3.8% |
| 2015 | 6.27 million t | +2.6% |
| 2016 | 6.47 million t | +3.2% |
| 2017 | 6.72 million t | +3.8% |
| 2018 | 6.70 million t | -0.2% |
| 2019 | 6.75 million t | +0.8% |
| 2020 | 6.82 million t | +1.0% |
| 2021 | 7.04 million t | +3.2% |
| 2022 | 7.20 million t | +2.2% |
| 2023 | 7.23 million t | +0.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1.29 million t | 1.16 million t | 1.45 million t | 9 |
| 1970s | 1.96 million t | 1.59 million t | 2.33 million t | 10 |
| 1980s | 2.90 million t | 2.47 million t | 3.24 million t | 10 |
| 1990s | 3.78 million t | 3.41 million t | 4.28 million t | 10 |
| 2000s | 4.85 million t | 4.44 million t | 5.33 million t | 10 |
| 2010s | 6.19 million t | 5.57 million t | 6.75 million t | 10 |
| 2020s | 7.07 million t | 6.82 million t | 7.23 million t | 4 |
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- Swine / pigs — Stocks, annual growth rate -0.5214 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 0.7981 % change on previous year (2024)
- Oilcrops, Cake Equivalent — Production 117.58 million t (2024)
- Meat, Poultry — Production 24.14 million t (2024)
- Meat, Poultry — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 10.63 million 1000 An (2024)
- Meat, Total — Production 52.99 million t (2024)
- Milk, Total — Yield/Carcass Weight 10,649 kg/An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cheese (all kinds) — production in Northern America?
- Cheese (all kinds) — production in Northern America was 7.23 million t in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cheese (all kinds) — production recorded in Northern America?
- The highest recorded value was 7.23 million t in 2023.
- What is the lowest cheese (all kinds) — production recorded in Northern America?
- The lowest recorded value was 1.16 million t in 1962.
- How does Northern America rank for cheese (all kinds) — production?
- Northern America ranks 5th out of 27 groups with data for 2023.
- Is cheese (all kinds) — production rising or falling in Northern America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 22.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Northern America 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.