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...
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 | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
- World 456,678 t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 148,249 t
- Europe 203,256 t
- Asia 91,127 t
- European Union (27) 198,143 t
- Iran (Islamic Republic of) 40,163 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 171,022 t
- Syrian Arab Republic 8,611 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 154,821 t
- Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 4,702 t
- Africa 137,321 t
- Türkiye 135.38 t
- Western Europe 130,643 t
- Eastern Africa 112,234 t
- Northern Africa 94,258 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 72,907 t
- Southern Europe 64,377 t
- Southern Asia 50,856 t
- Western Africa 43,063 t
- Americas 24,974 t
- Western Asia 19,314 t
- Central America 17,969 t
- Central Asia 14,449 t
- Eastern Europe 7,264 t
- South America 7,005 t
- Eastern Asia 6,507 t
- Northern Europe 971.86 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.