Whey, dry — 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
47
Highest
420,720 t
France
Lowest
0 t
Bulgaria
Median
15,510 t
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
3,138

What the numbers show

Whey, dry — Production is currently reported for 47 countries. The highest value is 420,720 t in France; the lowest is 0 t in Bulgaria.

The median across all reporting countries is 15,510 t, and the mean is 59,359 t.

Over the past decade 25 countries rose and 15 fell. The largest increase was in India (up 620.4%), and the largest decrease in Austria (down 37.9%).

Whey, dry — Production: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 France 420,720 t 2023 down 33.2% volatile
2 Germany 384,460 t 2023 up 10.3% volatile
3 Ireland 268,500 t 2023 up 142.3% volatile
4 Italy 240,190 t 2023 up 21.2% volatile
5 Belarus 158,613 t 2023 up 148.7% volatile
6 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 158,519 t 2023 up 6.2% rising
7 Poland 157,870 t 2023 down 16.0% volatile
8 Australia and New Zealand 141,226 t 2023 up 19.3% volatile
9 Australia 110,927 t 2023 up 18.2% volatile
10 Denmark 82,800 t 2023 up 139.3% volatile
11 Türkiye 80,881 t 2023 up 160.6% volatile
12 Switzerland 73,352 t 2023 up 16.4% volatile
13 Argentina 71,515 t 2023 down 9.0% volatile
14 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 68,896 t 2023 up 6.0% volatile
15 Canada 53,497 t 2023 up 199.9% rising
16 Czechia 52,230 t 2023 up 55.3% volatile
17 New Zealand 30,299 t 2023 up 23.7% volatile
18 Spain 28,740 t 2023 up 4.5% flat
19 Austria 23,040 t 2023 down 37.9% volatile
20 Finland 21,811 t 2023 down 36.7% volatile
21 Norway 17,759 t 2023 down 9.4% volatile
22 Uruguay 16,866 t 2023 down 27.0% volatile
23 Lithuania 16,120 t 2023 down 31.6% volatile
24 Portugal 15,510 t 2023 down 12.1% volatile
25 Ukraine 13,897 t 2023 down 34.2% rising
26 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 12,524 t 2023 up 46.8% volatile
27 Chile 12,376 t 2023 up 26.5% rising
28 Estonia 10,790 t 2023 up 165.8% volatile
29 Slovakia 7,830 t 2023 up 112.8% volatile
30 Hungary 7,010 t 2023 up 133.7% volatile
31 India 6,982 t 2023 up 620.4% volatile
32 Latvia 6,800 t 2023 up 94.3% volatile
33 Iceland 4,104 t 2023 up 48.3% rising
34 Belgium-Luxembourg 3,500 t 1999 down 30.0% volatile
35 Yugoslav SFR 2,632 t 1991 down 4.9% rising
36 Belgium 2,472 t 2023 down 29.4% falling
37 Croatia 2,375 t 2023 down 27.4% rising
38 Sweden 1,960 t 2023 down 27.7% volatile
39 Kyrgyzstan 218.7 t 2023 up 365.4% volatile
40 Republic of Moldova 65.31 t 2023 up 20.6% falling
41 Luxembourg 0 t 2023 flat
41 Kenya 0 t 2009 volatile
41 Malta 0 t 2023 flat
41 Slovenia 0 t 2023 volatile
41 Greece 0 t 2023 flat
41 Cyprus 0 t 2023 flat
41 Bulgaria 0 t 2023 flat

Regions and income groups

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

About this data

Indicator
Whey, dry — Production
Unit
t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
70 places, 3,138 data points, 1961–2023
Last refreshed

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.