Raw milk of sheep — 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
Raw milk of sheep — Production is currently reported for 79 countries. The highest value is 1.26 million t in China (People’s Republic of); the lowest is 0 t in Ethiopia PDR.
The median across all reporting countries is 25,775 t, and the mean is 122,954 t.
Over the past decade 44 countries rose and 34 fell. The largest increase was in Bangladesh (up 146.9%), and the largest decrease in Ethiopia PDR (down 100.0%).
Raw milk of sheep — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China (People’s Republic of) | 1.26 million t | 2024 | up 2.7% | volatile |
| 1 | China, mainland | 1.26 million t | 2024 | up 2.7% | volatile |
| 3 | Greece | 945,820 t | 2024 | up 11.7% | rising |
| 4 | Algeria | 542,280 t | 2024 | up 26.1% | volatile |
| 5 | Spain | 540,950 t | 2024 | down 8.7% | rising |
| 6 | Italy | 476,020 t | 2024 | up 27.8% | flat |
| 7 | Romania | 434,400 t | 2024 | down 35.5% | rising |
| 8 | Sudan | 410,963 t | 2024 | up 2.2% | flat |
| 9 | Sudan (former) | 390,000 t | 2011 | down 15.8% | rising |
| 10 | France | 337,060 t | 2024 | up 29.8% | rising |
| 11 | Somalia | 309,107 t | 2024 | down 24.9% | rising |
| 12 | Mali | 215,522 t | 2024 | up 138.1% | volatile |
| 13 | Afghanistan | 194,000 t | 2024 | down 4.2% | flat |
| 14 | Niger | 182,552 t | 2024 | up 47.2% | volatile |
| 15 | Indonesia | 147,567 t | 2024 | down 4.9% | rising |
| 16 | South Sudan | 134,878 t | 2024 | down 10.1% | falling |
| 17 | Yugoslav SFR | 133,744 t | 1991 | up 0.6% | falling |
| 18 | Jordan | 109,247 t | 2024 | up 32.9% | volatile |
| 19 | USSR | 105,000 t | 1991 | down 4.5% | falling |
| 20 | Kenya | 99,076 t | 2024 | up 57.5% | volatile |
| 21 | Palestine, State of | 91,000 t | 2022 | up 76.7% | rising |
| 22 | Saudi Arabia | 83,588 t | 2024 | up 17.2% | rising |
| 23 | Mauritania | 79,663 t | 2024 | up 14.7% | rising |
| 24 | Burkina Faso | 78,650 t | 2024 | up 12.7% | rising |
| 25 | Portugal | 76,440 t | 2024 | up 7.3% | falling |
| 26 | Bangladesh | 75,220 t | 2024 | up 146.9% | volatile |
| 27 | Yemen | 67,084 t | 2024 | up 1.1% | volatile |
| 28 | Albania | 64,210 t | 2024 | down 30.0% | rising |
| 29 | Libya | 61,286 t | 2024 | down 10.1% | rising |
| 30 | Iraq | 61,090 t | 2024 | up 8.1% | falling |
| 31 | Ethiopia | 58,805 t | 2024 | up 18.6% | rising |
| 32 | Cyprus | 53,100 t | 2024 | up 139.9% | rising |
| 33 | Bulgaria | 49,810 t | 2024 | down 33.6% | volatile |
| 34 | Chad | 46,381 t | 2024 | up 31.0% | volatile |
| 35 | Pakistan | 42,000 t | 2024 | up 10.5% | rising |
| 36 | United Arab Emirates | 35,446 t | 2024 | up 48.5% | volatile |
| 37 | Morocco | 34,854 t | 2024 | up 2.3% | rising |
| 38 | Czechoslovakia | 30,318 t | 1992 | down 17.9% | rising |
| 39 | Azerbaijan | 30,207 t | 2024 | up 14.3% | rising |
| 40 | Serbia and Montenegro | 25,775 t | 2005 | down 49.0% | falling |
| 41 | North Macedonia | 25,698 t | 2024 | down 30.0% | falling |
| 42 | Tunisia | 23,518 t | 2024 | down 9.5% | rising |
| 43 | Oman | 23,357 t | 2024 | up 5.6% | volatile |
| 44 | Egypt | 23,144 t | 2024 | down 75.6% | volatile |
| 45 | Armenia | 22,500 t | 2024 | down 61.3% | volatile |
| 46 | Cameroon | 18,847 t | 2024 | down 6.2% | rising |
| 47 | Guinea | 17,160 t | 2024 | up 33.2% | volatile |
| 48 | Nepal | 15,580 t | 2024 | down 12.2% | rising |
| 49 | Israel | 15,128 t | 2024 | down 33.9% | flat |
| 50 | Senegal | 12,780 t | 2024 | up 27.9% | rising |
| 51 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 12,370 t | 2024 | down 26.5% | falling |
| 52 | Lebanon | 12,362 t | 2024 | down 4.9% | rising |
| 53 | Slovak Republic | 12,130 t | 2024 | up 20.1% | rising |
| 54 | Austria | 11,330 t | 2024 | up 1.0% | volatile |
| 55 | Qatar | 10,981 t | 2024 | up 21.1% | volatile |
| 56 | Ukraine | 10,900 t | 2024 | down 53.9% | falling |
| 57 | Serbia | 10,378 t | 2024 | down 48.5% | falling |
| 58 | Malawi | 7,581 t | 2024 | up 29.3% | rising |
| 59 | Guinea-Bissau | 6,642 t | 2024 | down 4.8% | volatile |
| 60 | Montenegro | 6,622 t | 2024 | down 29.1% | flat |
| 61 | Switzerland | 6,507 t | 2024 | up 10.3% | volatile |
| 62 | Georgia | 6,075 t | 2024 | down 14.9% | volatile |
| 63 | Eritrea | 5,886 t | 2024 | up 12.5% | rising |
| 64 | Russian Federation | 5,800 t | 2024 | down 81.4% | volatile |
| 65 | Rwanda | 5,213 t | 2024 | down 38.3% | volatile |
| 66 | Croatia | 4,000 t | 2024 | down 34.4% | rising |
| 67 | Ecuador | 3,796 t | 2024 | down 36.7% | rising |
| 68 | Myanmar | 2,594 t | 2024 | down 33.2% | volatile |
| 69 | Malta | 2,090 t | 2024 | up 35.2% | rising |
| 70 | Hungary | 1,550 t | 2024 | down 8.3% | volatile |
| 71 | Mongolia | 1,475 t | 2024 | up 30.3% | volatile |
| 72 | Burundi | 1,367 t | 2024 | up 51.8% | rising |
| 73 | Slovenia | 710 t | 2024 | up 40.8% | rising |
| 74 | Poland | 490 t | 2024 | up 36.1% | volatile |
| 75 | Kuwait | 296.87 t | 2024 | up 0.4% | volatile |
| 76 | Belgium | 260 t | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 77 | Bahrain | 159.01 t | 2024 | up 15.7% | rising |
| 78 | Luxembourg | 110 t | 2024 | up 120.0% | rising |
| 79 | Ethiopia PDR | 0 t | 1992 | down 100.0% | falling |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- European Union (27) 2.95 million t
- Türkiye 906,945 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 2.68 million t
- Africa 2.38 million t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 2.26 million t
- Western Asia 2.21 million t
- Southern Europe 2.17 million t
- Eastern Asia 1.26 million t
- Northern Africa 1.10 million t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 1.08 million t
- Southern Asia 718,912 t
- Eastern Africa 621,913 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.