Milk, Total — Milk Animals in Mauritius
Mauritius: Milk, Total — Milk Animals was 3,030 An in 2024. ▼ Falling
Milk, Total — Milk Animals in Mauritius, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in An.
Analysis
The most recent figure for milk, total — milk animals in Mauritius is 3,030 An, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 1.0% on the previous year and down 32.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, milk, total — milk animals in Mauritius peaked at 10,000 An in 1970 and was at its lowest, 2,700 An, in 2022.
That places Mauritius 178th out of 199 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 9,000 An | 9,000 An | 9,000 An | 9 |
| 1970s | 9,200 An | 5,000 An | 10,000 An | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,300 An | 4,000 An | 7,000 An | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,947 An | 3,000 An | 7,606 An | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,770 An | 3,100 An | 4,100 An | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,990 An | 3,000 An | 5,200 An | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,964 An | 2,700 An | 3,067 An | 5 |
Countries ranked near Mauritius
- 175 Trinidad and Tobago 4,000 An compare
- 176 Congo 3,439 An compare
- 177 Antigua and Barbuda 3,240 An compare
- 179 Barbados 3,001 An compare
- 180 Papua New Guinea 2,989 An compare
- 181 Martinique 2,565 An compare
More agriculture & rural data for Mauritius
- Agriculture share gdp 4.62 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 4.62 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.4% (2024)
- Rural population 61.0% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.2% (2025)
- Rural population 758,222 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 745.90 million current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 10,843 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is milk, total — milk animals in Mauritius?
- Milk, total — milk animals in Mauritius was 3,030 An in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest milk, total — milk animals recorded in Mauritius?
- The highest recorded value was 10,000 An in 1970.
- What is the lowest milk, total — milk animals recorded in Mauritius?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,700 An in 2022.
- How does Mauritius rank for milk, total — milk animals?
- Mauritius ranks 178th out of 199 countries with data for 2024.
- Is milk, total — milk animals rising or falling in Mauritius?
- Over the last ten years it is down 32.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Mauritius data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Milk, Total — Milk Animals. 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.