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 57 countries. The highest value is 710,000 t in USSR; the lowest is 0 t in Bulgaria.
The median across all reporting countries is 18,570 t, and the mean is 85,402 t.
Over the past decade 35 countries rose and 20 fell. The largest increase was in Slovak Republic (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 |
| 3 | Australia and New Zealand | 533,406 t | 2023 | down 6.6% | rising |
| 4 | New Zealand | 390,000 t | 2023 | up 8.3% | rising |
| 5 | Germany | 347,780 t | 2023 | up 10.4% | falling |
| 6 | France | 293,670 t | 2023 | up 17.8% | falling |
| 7 | Belgium | 181,930 t | 2023 | up 72.2% | rising |
| 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 | Slovak Republic | 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
- Europe 1.90 million t
- European Union (27) 1.52 million t
- Americas 1.33 million t
- Southern Asia 646,673 t
- Northern America 1.25 million t
- Oceania 533,406 t
- United States of America 1.17 million t
- Eastern Europe 422,811 t
- Western Europe 966,346 t
- Eastern Asia 144,592 t
- Northern Europe 458,894 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.