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Skim milk of cows — 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...

Countries reporting
129
Highest
45.36 million t
USSR
Lowest
0 t
China, Hong Kong SAR
Median
167,877 t
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
8,903

What the numbers show

Skim milk of cows — Production is currently reported for 129 countries. The highest value is 45.36 million t in USSR; the lowest is 0 t in China, Hong Kong SAR.

The median across all reporting countries is 167,877 t, and the mean is 1.40 million t.

Over the past decade 82 countries rose and 44 fell. The largest increase was in Sri Lanka (up 316.3%), and the largest decrease in Cuba (down 74.9%).

Skim milk of cows — Production: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 USSR 45.36 million t 1991 up 24.1% rising
2 Germany 12.28 million t 2023 down 6.5% falling
3 Australia and New Zealand 10.24 million t 2023 down 6.2% rising
4 France 8.88 million t 2023 down 5.7% falling
5 New Zealand 8.62 million t 2023 up 3.8% rising
6 India 7.76 million t 2023 up 229.8% volatile
7 Russian Federation 6.99 million t 2023 up 8.8% falling
8 Ireland 5.63 million t 2023 up 76.6% rising
9 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 4.75 million t 2023 up 66.6% flat
10 Poland 4.32 million t 2023 up 5.1% falling
11 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 3.38 million t 2023 up 3.8% rising
12 Brazil 3.27 million t 2023 up 44.5% rising
13 Canada 3.22 million t 2023 up 13.6% falling
14 Italy 3.19 million t 2023 up 11.9% rising
15 Czechoslovakia 3.09 million t 1992 down 3.4% rising
16 Belgium 2.91 million t 2023 up 13.8% rising
17 Belarus 2.91 million t 2023 up 24.0% rising
18 Belgium-Luxembourg 2.86 million t 1999 up 35.0% falling
19 China 2.60 million t 2023 up 19.2% volatile
20 China, mainland 2.60 million t 2023 up 19.2% volatile
21 Uzbekistan 2.22 million t 2023 up 75.9% volatile
22 Spain 1.83 million t 2023 down 5.4% volatile
23 Denmark 1.70 million t 2023 up 2.7% falling
24 Australia 1.62 million t 2023 down 38.2% falling
25 Japan 1.60 million t 2023 down 1.4% rising
26 Republic of Korea 1.51 million t 2023 down 6.4% volatile
27 Austria 1.13 million t 2023 up 8.3% flat
28 Egypt 1.12 million t 2023 up 69.2% rising
29 Ukraine 1.04 million t 2023 down 49.8% volatile
30 Sweden 1.01 million t 2023 down 23.9% falling
31 Argentina 982,067 t 2023 up 12.0% rising
32 Portugal 973,041 t 2023 up 20.6% volatile
33 Finland 925,528 t 2023 down 22.2% falling
34 Kazakhstan 858,490 t 2023 up 98.6% volatile
35 Saudi Arabia 837,735 t 2023 up 152.7% volatile
36 Morocco 803,528 t 2023 down 14.5% volatile
37 Kenya 802,894 t 2023 up 26.3% volatile
38 Switzerland 745,762 t 2023 down 5.7% rising
39 Czechia 744,763 t 2023 down 26.8% falling
40 Afghanistan 733,695 t 2023 up 26.7% volatile
41 Bangladesh 631,601 t 2023 up 29.3% rising
42 Romania 620,292 t 2023 up 247.1% volatile
43 Azerbaijan 561,726 t 2023 down 32.3% volatile
44 Chile 546,891 t 2023 up 16.3% volatile
45 Nepal 546,687 t 2023 up 145.4% volatile
46 Colombia 537,166 t 2023 up 1.2% rising
47 Mexico 521,419 t 2023 up 25.6% rising
48 Norway 517,265 t 2023 down 5.7% falling
49 Myanmar 422,894 t 2023 down 54.4% volatile
50 Niger 416,735 t 2023 up 67.9% volatile
51 Slovakia 415,004 t 2023 up 77.4% falling
52 Uruguay 396,480 t 2023 down 28.1% rising
53 Ethiopia 384,509 t 2023 up 21.1% rising
54 Sudan (former) 371,676 t 2009 up 11.7% rising
55 South Sudan 363,838 t 2018 up 2.4% flat
56 Tunisia 335,348 t 2023 up 21.5% volatile
57 South Africa 315,711 t 2023 down 25.9% volatile
58 Lithuania 256,527 t 2023 down 51.2% falling
59 Nigeria 222,070 t 2023 down 7.3% rising
60 Yugoslav SFR 216,500 t 1991 down 25.3% rising
61 Croatia 216,410 t 2023 up 126.2% volatile
62 Mongolia 208,059 t 2023 down 25.0% volatile
63 Ethiopia PDR 205,200 t 1992 up 20.6% rising
64 Hungary 188,015 t 2023 down 6.0% falling
65 Somalia 167,877 t 2023 down 8.9% rising
66 Costa Rica 164,518 t 2023 up 19.0% rising
67 Israel 161,936 t 2023 up 15.9% rising
68 Latvia 158,736 t 2023 down 37.8% falling
69 Estonia 145,018 t 2023 up 56.9% falling
70 Honduras 132,561 t 2023 up 2.6% rising
71 Serbia 131,643 t 2023 down 22.0% rising
72 Yemen 130,168 t 2023 up 13.5% rising
73 Slovenia 110,186 t 2023 down 39.0% flat
74 Peru 106,199 t 2023 up 28.9% volatile
75 Kyrgyzstan 102,811 t 2023 up 161.4% volatile
76 Panama 102,450 t 2023 up 4.7% volatile
77 Thailand 102,090 t 2023 up 54.9% volatile
78 Algeria 95,198 t 2023 down 28.2% volatile
79 Greece 90,456 t 2023 up 14.4% falling
80 Iraq 88,418 t 2023 up 9.8% falling
81 Ecuador 87,969 t 2023 down 17.3% volatile
82 North Macedonia 82,718 t 2023 down 40.2% rising
83 Dominican Republic 75,799 t 2023 up 59.9% volatile
84 Indonesia 71,913 t 2023 up 8.0% volatile
85 Iceland 70,491 t 2023 up 19.6% rising
86 Pakistan 66,572 t 2023 up 48.8% volatile
87 Luxembourg 63,524 t 2023 up 164.4% rising
88 Sri Lanka 62,296 t 2023 up 316.3% volatile
89 Uganda 59,625 t 2023 up 241.8% volatile
90 Turkmenistan 57,271 t 2023 down 9.0% rising
91 Serbia and Montenegro 55,300 t 2005 up 53.6% rising
92 Zimbabwe 50,909 t 2023 up 3.8% rising
93 Rwanda 44,329 t 2023 down 7.8% volatile
94 Albania 43,926 t 2023 down 41.9% volatile
95 Zambia 38,868 t 2023 up 22.4% volatile
96 Guatemala 35,797 t 2023 up 24.5% volatile
97 Cyprus 33,296 t 2023 — flat
98 Bulgaria 32,490 t 2023 up 212.2% volatile
99 Burkina Faso 32,181 t 2023 up 65.5% rising
100 Eritrea 30,600 t 2023 up 10.5% rising
101 Bhutan 29,946 t 2023 — volatile
102 Paraguay 29,330 t 2023 up 112.0% volatile
103 Fiji 27,900 t 2023 down 34.9% rising
104 United Arab Emirates 24,900 t 2023 down 19.6% volatile
105 Mauritania 24,736 t 2023 up 28.8% rising
106 Oman 24,112 t 2023 up 86.6% volatile
107 Nicaragua 21,653 t 2023 up 138.2% falling
108 Botswana 18,525 t 2023 up 13.5% falling
109 Senegal 17,605 t 2023 down 3.5% rising
110 Namibia 13,544 t 2023 up 18.0% volatile
111 Bosnia and Herzegovina 13,253 t 2023 up 213.4% volatile
112 Chad 12,702 t 2023 up 125.3% rising
113 Angola 10,696 t 2023 up 4.3% rising
114 Montenegro 10,195 t 2023 down 47.1% rising
115 Georgia 9,325 t 2023 up 2.6% volatile
116 Guinea 9,006 t 2023 up 11.6% volatile
117 Armenia 8,087 t 2023 down 35.0% volatile
118 El Salvador 7,789 t 2023 up 78.0% rising
119 Lebanon 6,555 t 2023 down 7.8% flat
120 Burundi 4,661 t 2023 up 18.9% rising
121 Eswatini 4,462 t 2023 down 1.9% rising
122 Sudan 4,139 t 2023 up 7.6% rising
123 Malaysia 3,673 t 2023 down 48.7% rising
124 Cuba 3,441 t 2023 down 74.9% volatile
125 China, Taiwan Province of 2,394 t 2023 up 39.5% volatile
126 Barbados 2,372 t 2023 up 2.4% falling
127 Tajikistan 562.64 t 2023 up 34.4% volatile
128 Suriname 359.6 t 2023 down 33.4% volatile
129 China, Hong Kong SAR 0 t 2018 — volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Skim milk of cows — Production
Unit
t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
168 places, 8,903 data points, 1961–2023
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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.