Cheese from milk of goats, fresh or processed — 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...

Countries reporting
41
Highest
112,234 t
South Sudan
Lowest
0 t
Malta
Median
2,720 t
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
3,643

What the numbers show

Cheese from milk of goats, fresh or processed — Production is currently reported for 41 countries. The highest value is 112,234 t in South Sudan; the lowest is 0 t in Malta.

The median across all reporting countries is 2,720 t, and the mean is 15,853 t.

Over the past decade 20 countries rose and 18 fell. The largest increase was in Czechoslovakia (up 1,020.0%), and the largest decrease in Greece (down 100.0%).

Cheese from milk of goats, fresh or processed — Production: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 South Sudan 112,234 t 2018 up 1.3% flat
2 Sudan (former) 108,750 t 2009 up 3.6% volatile
3 France 89,440 t 2023 down 5.3% rising
4 Sudan 88,663 t 2023 up 2.3% flat
5 Spain 52,510 t 2023 up 130.3% volatile
6 Niger 43,063 t 2023 up 50.3% rising
7 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 28,740 t 2023 up 35.7% rising
8 Mexico 17,969 t 2023 up 14.4% falling
9 USSR 15,000 t 1991 down 2.0% falling
10 Tajikistan 14,162 t 2023 down 24.1% rising
11 Afghanistan 10,693 t 2023 up 5.5% rising
12 Belgium 10,130 t 2023 up 197.9% rising
13 Italy 7,360 t 2023 up 62.1% flat
14 China, mainland 6,507 t 2023 down 22.5% rising
14 China 6,507 t 2023 down 22.5% rising
16 Yemen 5,830 t 2023 up 15.5% volatile
17 Morocco 4,433 t 2023 down 28.5% rising
18 Czechoslovakia 3,598 t 1992 up 1,020.0% volatile
19 Ukraine 3,454 t 2023 down 40.5% falling
20 Portugal 3,320 t 2023 up 27.2% rising
21 Iraq 2,720 t 2023 up 28.6% volatile
22 Romania 2,000 t 2023 up 198.5% rising
23 Lebanon 1,728 t 2023 up 113.7% rising
24 Bulgaria 1,410 t 2023 up 143.1% volatile
25 Chile 1,326 t 2023 down 29.4% falling
26 Austria 1,180 t 2023 up 29.7% volatile
27 Tunisia 1,163 t 2023 down 24.8% rising
28 Germany 1,153 t 2023 down 31.4% volatile
29 Albania 977.22 t 2023 down 2.3% rising
30 Peru 976.44 t 2023 down 15.8% volatile
31 Norway 971.86 t 2023 down 19.0% falling
32 Poland 750 t 2019 up 316.7% rising
33 Hungary 378.22 t 2023 up 656.4% volatile
34 Cyprus 290 t 2023 down 17.1% volatile
35 Kazakhstan 286.58 t 2023 down 32.8% volatile
36 Croatia 210 t 2023 volatile
37 Czechia 74.95 t 2022 falling
38 Slovakia 22.07 t 2023 down 96.1% volatile
39 Greece 0 t 2023 down 100.0% falling
39 Uzbekistan 0 t 2018 down 100.0% volatile
39 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.

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Indicator
Cheese from milk of goats, fresh or processed — Production
Unit
t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
76 places, 3,643 data points, 1961–2023
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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.