Milk, Total — Yield/Carcass Weight in Australia
Australia: Milk, Total — Yield/Carcass Weight was 6,518 kg/An in 2024. ▲ Rising
Milk, Total — Yield/Carcass Weight in Australia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/An.
Analysis
The most recent figure for milk, total — yield/carcass weight in Australia is 6,518 kg/An, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.7% on the previous year and up 12.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, milk, total — yield/carcass weight in Australia peaked at 6,564 kg/An in 2023 and was at its lowest, 1,985 kg/An, in 1961.
Australia ranks 21st of 199 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,346 kg/An | 1,985 kg/An | 2,660 kg/An | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,849 kg/An | 2,738 kg/An | 3,031 kg/An | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,384 kg/An | 2,972 kg/An | 3,898 kg/An | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,468 kg/An | 3,907 kg/An | 4,769 kg/An | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,228 kg/An | 4,847 kg/An | 5,623 kg/An | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,873 kg/An | 5,575 kg/An | 6,426 kg/An | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,494 kg/An | 6,308 kg/An | 6,564 kg/An | 5 |
Countries ranked near Australia
More agriculture & rural data for Australia
- Agriculture share gdp 2.27 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 2.27 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.5% (2025)
- Rural population 12.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.6% (2025)
- Rural population 3.39 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 2.3% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 40.76 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 368,735 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is milk, total — yield/carcass weight in Australia?
- Milk, total — yield/carcass weight in Australia was 6,518 kg/An in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest milk, total — yield/carcass weight recorded in Australia?
- The highest recorded value was 6,564 kg/An in 2023.
- What is the lowest milk, total — yield/carcass weight recorded in Australia?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,985 kg/An in 1961.
- How does Australia rank for milk, total — yield/carcass weight?
- Australia ranks 21st out of 199 countries with data for 2024.
- Is milk, total — yield/carcass weight rising or falling in Australia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 12.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Australia data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Milk, Total — Yield/Carcass Weight. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
Download this data
CSV · JSON — 64 observations, free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO).
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.