Skim milk and whey powder — 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
Skim milk and whey powder — Production is currently reported for 62 countries. The highest value is 710,000 t in USSR; the lowest is 0 t in Bulgaria.
The median across all reporting countries is 17,124 t, and the mean is 79,677 t.
Over the past decade 39 countries rose and 21 fell. The largest increase was in Slovakia (up 1,039.9%), and the largest decrease in Nicaragua (down 100.0%).
Skim milk and whey powder — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | USSR | 710,000 t | 1991 | up 96.1% | volatile |
| 2 | India | 629,155 t | 2023 | up 214.6% | volatile |
| 2 | Türkiye | 49,225 t | 2023 | up 125.4% | volatile |
| 3 | Australia and New Zealand | 533,406 t | 2023 | down 6.6% | rising |
| 3 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 17,518 t | 2023 | up 80.7% | rising |
| 4 | New Zealand | 390,000 t | 2023 | up 8.3% | rising |
| 4 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 3,168 t | 2023 | up 37.8% | volatile |
| 5 | Germany | 347,780 t | 2023 | up 10.4% | falling |
| 6 | France | 293,670 t | 2023 | up 17.8% | falling |
| 6 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 2,015 t | 2023 | up 6.1% | volatile |
| 7 | Belgium | 181,930 t | 2023 | up 72.2% | rising |
| 7 | Republic of Moldova | 140.87 t | 2023 | down 40.9% | volatile |
| 8 | Ireland | 167,200 t | 2023 | up 241.9% | volatile |
| 9 | Poland | 159,200 t | 2023 | up 62.3% | rising |
| 10 | Australia | 143,406 t | 2023 | down 32.0% | rising |
| 11 | Czechoslovakia | 140,000 t | 1992 | up 73.3% | volatile |
| 12 | Belarus | 119,523 t | 2023 | up 16.5% | rising |
| 13 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 115,200 t | 2023 | up 112.9% | volatile |
| 14 | Japan | 109,210 t | 2023 | down 19.9% | rising |
| 15 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 104,903 t | 2023 | up 57.5% | volatile |
| 16 | Belgium-Luxembourg | 93,483 t | 1999 | down 5.9% | flat |
| 17 | Canada | 82,101 t | 2023 | up 9.0% | falling |
| 18 | Finland | 64,008 t | 2023 | up 190.9% | volatile |
| 19 | Russian Federation | 58,145 t | 2023 | up 16.3% | falling |
| 20 | Ukraine | 52,169 t | 2023 | down 52.1% | falling |
| 21 | Sweden | 36,400 t | 2023 | up 16.4% | flat |
| 22 | Republic of Korea | 35,382 t | 2023 | down 8.4% | volatile |
| 23 | Argentina | 32,843 t | 2023 | down 13.0% | volatile |
| 24 | Denmark | 31,300 t | 2023 | down 32.1% | rising |
| 25 | Spain | 26,560 t | 2023 | up 274.1% | volatile |
| 26 | Switzerland | 22,616 t | 2023 | up 10.5% | rising |
| 27 | Lithuania | 22,210 t | 2023 | down 1.8% | volatile |
| 28 | Portugal | 21,910 t | 2023 | up 253.4% | volatile |
| 29 | Norway | 18,570 t | 2023 | up 132.1% | rising |
| 30 | Czechia | 16,730 t | 2023 | down 4.2% | volatile |
| 31 | Slovakia | 14,705 t | 2023 | up 1,039.9% | volatile |
| 32 | Chile | 14,318 t | 2023 | up 2.8% | volatile |
| 33 | Uruguay | 12,898 t | 2023 | down 63.1% | volatile |
| 34 | Estonia | 10,562 t | 2023 | up 373.6% | volatile |
| 35 | Kyrgyzstan | 10,328 t | 2023 | up 588.4% | volatile |
| 36 | Mexico | 6,768 t | 2023 | down 74.7% | volatile |
| 37 | Israel | 5,672 t | 2023 | up 26.9% | volatile |
| 38 | Austria | 5,150 t | 2023 | up 19.5% | volatile |
| 39 | South Africa | 3,662 t | 2023 | down 31.9% | volatile |
| 40 | Kenya | 3,231 t | 2023 | up 29.2% | rising |
| 41 | Guatemala | 3,066 t | 2023 | up 6.7% | volatile |
| 42 | Latvia | 2,358 t | 2023 | down 68.0% | volatile |
| 43 | Slovenia | 2,238 t | 2023 | down 44.1% | flat |
| 44 | Uganda | 2,200 t | 2023 | up 53.0% | volatile |
| 45 | Serbia | 1,965 t | 2023 | down 22.5% | rising |
| 46 | Costa Rica | 1,688 t | 2023 | up 19.5% | rising |
| 47 | Iceland | 1,383 t | 2023 | up 25.7% | volatile |
| 48 | El Salvador | 1,199 t | 2023 | up 73.5% | volatile |
| 49 | Romania | 1,163 t | 2023 | down 18.6% | volatile |
| 50 | Zimbabwe | 1,121 t | 2023 | up 1.3% | rising |
| 51 | Kazakhstan | 1,081 t | 2023 | down 55.0% | volatile |
| 52 | Hungary | 1,035 t | 2023 | up 29.3% | volatile |
| 53 | Croatia | 792.87 t | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 54 | Honduras | 174.91 t | 2023 | down 27.1% | rising |
| 55 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 152.03 t | 2023 | up 45.0% | volatile |
| 56 | Nicaragua | 0 t | 1979 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 56 | Bulgaria | 0 t | 2023 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 4.71 million t
- Asia 942,404 t
- Europe 1.90 million t
- European Union (27) 1.52 million t
- Americas 1.33 million t
- Northern America 1.25 million t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 2,200 t
- United States of America 1.17 million t
- Western Europe 966,346 t
- Southern Asia 646,673 t
- Oceania 533,406 t
- Northern Europe 458,894 t
- Eastern Europe 422,811 t
- Eastern Asia 144,592 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 101,718 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 101,712 t
- Central Asia 96,242 t
- South America 65,242 t
- Western Asia 54,897 t
- Southern Europe 53,617 t
- Central America 12,896 t
- Africa 10,214 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 9,973 t
- Eastern Africa 6,551 t
- Southern Africa 3,662 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.