Raw milk of sheep — Milk Animals 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
Raw milk of sheep — Milk Animals is currently reported for 80 countries. The highest value is 46.15 million An in China; the lowest is 70 An in Latvia.
The median across all reporting countries is 569,802 An, and the mean is 3.60 million An.
Over the past decade 43 countries rose and 36 fell. The largest increase was in Burundi (up 102.8%), and the largest decrease in Egypt (down 58.7%).
Raw milk of sheep — Milk Animals: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 46.15 million An | 2024 | up 3.7% | rising |
| 1 | China, mainland | 46.15 million An | 2024 | up 3.7% | rising |
| 3 | Sudan (former) | 28.70 million An | 2011 | up 11.7% | volatile |
| 4 | Sudan | 22.81 million An | 2024 | up 2.0% | flat |
| 5 | Algeria | 20.14 million An | 2024 | up 32.5% | volatile |
| 6 | Mali | 17.61 million An | 2024 | up 62.8% | volatile |
| 7 | Mongolia | 9.38 million An | 2024 | up 11.9% | volatile |
| 8 | Romania | 7.94 million An | 2024 | up 18.5% | falling |
| 9 | Afghanistan | 6.51 million An | 2024 | down 6.4% | flat |
| 10 | South Sudan | 6.22 million An | 2024 | down 11.1% | falling |
| 11 | Greece | 5.57 million An | 2024 | down 17.9% | flat |
| 12 | Indonesia | 5.45 million An | 2024 | down 4.8% | volatile |
| 13 | Niger | 4.48 million An | 2024 | up 35.0% | volatile |
| 14 | Somalia | 4.34 million An | 2024 | down 31.7% | rising |
| 15 | Italy | 3.70 million An | 2024 | down 28.1% | falling |
| 16 | Russian Federation | 3.51 million An | 2024 | up 19.0% | flat |
| 17 | Yugoslav SFR | 3.30 million An | 1991 | down 6.8% | falling |
| 18 | Kenya | 3.26 million An | 2024 | up 92.0% | rising |
| 19 | Iraq | 3.23 million An | 2024 | up 2.3% | rising |
| 20 | Ethiopia | 3.18 million An | 2024 | up 30.6% | rising |
| 21 | Saudi Arabia | 2.88 million An | 2024 | up 3.4% | rising |
| 22 | Mauritania | 2.34 million An | 2024 | up 19.0% | rising |
| 23 | Ethiopia PDR | 2.32 million An | 1992 | down 0.6% | flat |
| 24 | Jordan | 2.30 million An | 2024 | up 17.3% | volatile |
| 25 | Libya | 1.98 million An | 2024 | down 10.1% | rising |
| 26 | Spain | 1.97 million An | 2024 | down 36.3% | falling |
| 27 | Yemen | 1.72 million An | 2024 | down 2.2% | volatile |
| 28 | USSR | 1.55 million An | 1991 | up 12.6% | flat |
| 29 | France | 1.43 million An | 2024 | up 16.5% | rising |
| 30 | Burkina Faso | 1.41 million An | 2024 | up 17.9% | rising |
| 31 | Bangladesh | 1.37 million An | 2024 | up 77.6% | volatile |
| 32 | Chad | 1.25 million An | 2024 | up 56.9% | volatile |
| 33 | Albania | 999,833 An | 2024 | down 29.5% | rising |
| 34 | Morocco | 983,013 An | 2024 | up 3.1% | rising |
| 35 | Senegal | 975,962 An | 2024 | up 46.3% | rising |
| 36 | Cameroon | 916,440 An | 2024 | down 9.3% | rising |
| 37 | Pakistan | 850,000 An | 2024 | up 7.3% | rising |
| 38 | Egypt | 805,000 An | 2024 | down 58.7% | volatile |
| 39 | Bulgaria | 675,460 An | 2024 | down 36.5% | volatile |
| 40 | Serbia and Montenegro | 585,800 An | 2005 | down 48.6% | falling |
| 41 | Palestine, State of | 553,804 An | 2022 | up 7.6% | rising |
| 42 | United Arab Emirates | 529,757 An | 2024 | up 30.5% | volatile |
| 43 | Czechoslovakia | 528,062 An | 1992 | up 11.4% | rising |
| 44 | Oman | 505,948 An | 2024 | up 19.7% | volatile |
| 45 | Armenia | 503,213 An | 2024 | up 4.4% | volatile |
| 46 | North Macedonia | 340,401 An | 2024 | down 29.5% | volatile |
| 47 | Guinea | 339,842 An | 2024 | up 65.6% | volatile |
| 48 | Azerbaijan | 317,097 An | 2024 | up 21.2% | rising |
| 49 | Tunisia | 292,099 An | 2024 | down 12.4% | rising |
| 50 | Nepal | 263,904 An | 2024 | down 16.6% | rising |
| 51 | Lebanon | 242,203 An | 2024 | down 3.1% | rising |
| 52 | Eritrea | 238,555 An | 2024 | up 7.8% | rising |
| 53 | Ukraine | 236,000 An | 2024 | down 38.5% | falling |
| 54 | Qatar | 226,853 An | 2024 | up 37.7% | volatile |
| 55 | Portugal | 226,790 An | 2024 | down 31.5% | falling |
| 56 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 215,332 An | 2024 | down 23.4% | falling |
| 57 | Cyprus | 213,820 An | 2024 | up 4.2% | flat |
| 58 | Israel | 188,196 An | 2024 | down 28.7% | rising |
| 59 | Slovakia | 163,460 An | 2019 | down 11.0% | falling |
| 60 | Georgia | 119,234 An | 2024 | down 7.3% | falling |
| 61 | Myanmar | 116,441 An | 2024 | down 45.9% | volatile |
| 62 | Malawi | 106,037 An | 2024 | up 47.9% | rising |
| 63 | Ecuador | 94,626 An | 2024 | down 50.2% | rising |
| 64 | Burundi | 91,256 An | 2024 | up 102.8% | rising |
| 65 | Guinea-Bissau | 90,946 An | 2024 | up 0.3% | rising |
| 66 | Serbia | 83,958 An | 2024 | down 57.4% | falling |
| 67 | Croatia | 71,000 An | 2024 | down 14.5% | falling |
| 68 | Rwanda | 63,311 An | 2024 | down 46.0% | rising |
| 69 | Montenegro | 52,693 An | 2024 | down 51.3% | falling |
| 70 | Poland | 40,577 An | 2017 | down 8.5% | volatile |
| 71 | Austria | 27,366 An | 2024 | up 6.0% | rising |
| 72 | Hungary | 17,000 An | 2024 | down 26.1% | volatile |
| 73 | Switzerland | 14,460 An | 2024 | up 5.6% | rising |
| 74 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 13,000 An | 2024 | down 7.1% | falling |
| 75 | Malta | 12,800 An | 2024 | up 73.1% | rising |
| 76 | Germany | 12,700 An | 2024 | down 4.5% | flat |
| 77 | Slovenia | 4,101 An | 2024 | up 54.9% | rising |
| 78 | Bahrain | 1,994 An | 2024 | up 31.0% | rising |
| 79 | Kuwait | 1,425 An | 2024 | up 7.8% | volatile |
| 80 | Latvia | 70 An | 2024 | — | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Africa 93.93 million An
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 93.40 million An
- Türkiye 19.13 million An
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 90.30 million An
- Eastern Asia 55.53 million An
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 53.25 million An
- Northern Africa 47.01 million An
- Western Asia 44.54 million An
- Western Africa 27.25 million An
- European Union (27) 22.07 million An
- Southern Asia 21.52 million An
- Eastern Africa 17.50 million An
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.