Cheese from milk of sheep, 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 sheep, fresh or processed — Production is currently reported for 39 countries. The highest value is 75,240 t in Spain; the lowest is 0 t in Malta.
The median across all reporting countries is 2,875 t, and the mean is 13,986 t.
Over the past decade 23 countries rose and 13 fell. The largest increase was in Slovakia (up 426.4%), and the largest decrease in Greece (down 100.0%).
Cheese from milk of sheep, fresh or processed — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spain | 75,240 t | 2023 | up 47.2% | rising |
| 2 | China, mainland | 74,811 t | 2023 | up 7.5% | rising |
| 2 | China | 74,811 t | 2023 | up 7.5% | rising |
| 4 | Italy | 73,760 t | 2023 | up 12.8% | rising |
| 5 | France | 61,090 t | 2023 | up 84.3% | volatile |
| 6 | Niger | 35,196 t | 2023 | up 39.2% | volatile |
| 7 | USSR | 26,250 t | 1991 | down 4.5% | falling |
| 8 | South Sudan | 15,796 t | 2018 | up 1.4% | flat |
| 9 | Sudan (former) | 15,000 t | 2009 | up 9.1% | rising |
| 10 | Sudan | 13,385 t | 2023 | up 1.9% | flat |
| 11 | Afghanistan | 11,485 t | 2023 | down 12.6% | flat |
| 12 | Palestine, State of | 10,238 t | 2022 | up 76.3% | rising |
| 13 | Jordan | 8,879 t | 2023 | up 26.0% | volatile |
| 14 | Bulgaria | 6,300 t | 2023 | up 1.1% | volatile |
| 15 | Yemen | 5,978 t | 2023 | up 2.9% | volatile |
| 16 | Portugal | 5,770 t | 2023 | up 27.7% | falling |
| 17 | Iraq | 5,317 t | 2023 | up 0.1% | falling |
| 18 | Slovakia | 3,632 t | 2023 | up 426.4% | volatile |
| 19 | Romania | 3,360 t | 2023 | up 24.0% | volatile |
| 20 | Ukraine | 2,875 t | 2023 | down 74.1% | falling |
| 21 | Morocco | 2,458 t | 2023 | down 1.2% | rising |
| 22 | Lebanon | 1,981 t | 2023 | up 144.5% | rising |
| 23 | Mongolia | 1,963 t | 2023 | up 8.8% | rising |
| 24 | Cyprus | 1,640 t | 2023 | up 131.0% | falling |
| 25 | Oman | 1,396 t | 2023 | up 16.5% | volatile |
| 26 | Israel | 1,301 t | 2023 | up 11.2% | rising |
| 27 | Serbia | 1,275 t | 2023 | down 38.8% | falling |
| 28 | Czechoslovakia | 1,200 t | 1992 | down 68.5% | flat |
| 29 | Albania | 942.77 t | 2023 | down 21.4% | rising |
| 30 | Austria | 790 t | 2023 | down 21.8% | rising |
| 31 | Ecuador | 595.31 t | 2023 | down 40.9% | rising |
| 32 | Belgium | 240 t | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 33 | Croatia | 200 t | 2023 | down 80.3% | volatile |
| 34 | Azerbaijan | 145.12 t | 2023 | down 13.3% | volatile |
| 35 | Hungary | 92.89 t | 2023 | down 72.7% | volatile |
| 36 | Poland | 43.73 t | 2023 | up 337.3% | volatile |
| 37 | Czechia | 0 t | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 37 | Greece | 0 t | 2023 | down 100.0% | falling |
| 37 | 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 520,392 t
- Asia 221,952 t
- Europe 240,939 t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 66,045 t
- European Union (27) 232,159 t
- Syrian Arab Republic 47,528 t
- Southern Europe 157,188 t
- Türkiye 33,580 t
- Western Asia 117,870 t
- Iran (Islamic Republic of) 15,822 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 113,573 t
- Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 5,867 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 79,345 t
- Republic of Moldova 5,327 t
- Eastern Asia 76,774 t
- Western Europe 62,120 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 59,983 t
- Africa 51,040 t
- Western Africa 35,196 t
- Southern Asia 27,308 t
- Eastern Europe 21,631 t
- Northern Africa 15,844 t
- Eastern Africa 15,796 t
- South America 6,462 t
- Americas 6,462 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.