Cheese from skimmed cow milk — 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 skimmed cow milk — Production is currently reported for 47 countries. The highest value is 850,000 t in USSR; the lowest is 0 t in Italy.
The median across all reporting countries is 11,876 t, and the mean is 70,208 t.
Over the past decade 27 countries rose and 18 fell. The largest increase was in Latvia (up 1,293.0%), and the largest decrease in Estonia (down 100.0%).
Cheese from skimmed cow milk — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | USSR | 850,000 t | 1991 | up 8.1% | rising |
| 2 | Germany | 681,196 t | 2023 | down 19.4% | rising |
| 3 | France | 308,693 t | 2023 | down 0.3% | volatile |
| 4 | Russian Federation | 186,994 t | 2023 | up 10.0% | falling |
| 5 | Egypt | 184,743 t | 2023 | up 102.1% | volatile |
| 6 | China | 136,144 t | 2023 | up 9.9% | volatile |
| 6 | China, mainland | 136,144 t | 2023 | up 9.9% | volatile |
| 8 | Uzbekistan | 125,248 t | 2023 | up 422.1% | volatile |
| 9 | Japan | 106,252 t | 2023 | down 20.2% | rising |
| 10 | Poland | 87,987 t | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 11 | Czechia | 53,964 t | 2023 | up 169.8% | rising |
| 12 | Myanmar | 50,226 t | 2023 | down 54.4% | volatile |
| 13 | Austria | 40,000 t | 2023 | up 4.5% | rising |
| 14 | Czechoslovakia | 36,000 t | 1992 | down 47.5% | rising |
| 15 | Israel | 30,664 t | 2023 | up 14.6% | rising |
| 16 | Canada | 30,599 t | 2023 | up 21.5% | rising |
| 17 | Belgium | 27,623 t | 2023 | up 28.3% | rising |
| 18 | Lithuania | 23,918 t | 2023 | down 32.2% | volatile |
| 19 | Costa Rica | 23,640 t | 2023 | up 96.4% | volatile |
| 20 | Switzerland | 19,156 t | 2023 | down 8.8% | volatile |
| 21 | Belgium-Luxembourg | 18,400 t | 1999 | up 7.6% | rising |
| 22 | Brazil | 16,286 t | 2023 | up 271.0% | volatile |
| 23 | Morocco | 16,069 t | 2023 | down 14.6% | flat |
| 24 | Greece | 11,876 t | 2023 | up 30.5% | rising |
| 25 | Honduras | 11,763 t | 2023 | up 4.7% | rising |
| 26 | Azerbaijan | 11,192 t | 2023 | down 39.1% | rising |
| 27 | Hungary | 10,270 t | 2023 | down 43.6% | volatile |
| 28 | Nigeria | 9,559 t | 2023 | down 7.3% | rising |
| 29 | Uruguay | 8,641 t | 2023 | down 43.1% | rising |
| 30 | Yemen | 8,000 t | 2023 | up 51.9% | volatile |
| 31 | Mauritania | 7,800 t | 2023 | up 14.5% | volatile |
| 32 | Latvia | 5,572 t | 2023 | up 1,293.0% | volatile |
| 33 | Chile | 4,874 t | 2023 | down 6.3% | rising |
| 34 | Iraq | 4,162 t | 2023 | up 27.4% | flat |
| 35 | Ireland | 3,591 t | 2023 | down 4.0% | volatile |
| 36 | Botswana | 2,896 t | 2023 | down 55.5% | volatile |
| 37 | Algeria | 2,620 t | 2023 | up 17.5% | volatile |
| 38 | Peru | 2,588 t | 2023 | up 61.7% | volatile |
| 39 | Spain | 1,545 t | 2023 | up 157.4% | volatile |
| 40 | Turkmenistan | 1,273 t | 2023 | down 9.0% | falling |
| 41 | Nicaragua | 666 t | 2023 | up 501.9% | volatile |
| 42 | Belarus | 383.3 t | 2023 | up 3.5% | volatile |
| 43 | Iceland | 326.83 t | 2023 | up 25.7% | volatile |
| 44 | Tajikistan | 116.6 t | 2023 | up 69.6% | volatile |
| 45 | Serbia | 104.14 t | 2023 | down 22.7% | falling |
| 46 | Estonia | 0 t | 2005 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 46 | Italy | 0 t | 2009 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 2.74 million t
- Europe 1.46 million t
- European Union (27) 1.26 million t
- Western Europe 1.08 million t
- Eastern Europe 339,597 t
- Americas 305,778 t
- Southern Asia 247,180 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 284,086 t
- Eastern Asia 242,396 t
- Northern America 237,320 t
- Africa 223,688 t
- United States of America 206,721 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.