Yoghurt — 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
Yoghurt — Production is currently reported for 41 countries. The highest value is 852,630 t in Germany; the lowest is 0 t in Yugoslav SFR.
The median across all reporting countries is 52,330 t, and the mean is 121,512 t.
Over the past decade 23 countries rose and 12 fell. The largest increase was in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (up 400.0%), and the largest decrease in Uruguay (down 54.3%).
Yoghurt — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germany | 852,630 t | 2023 | up 25.8% | volatile |
| 2 | Russian Federation | 615,550 t | 2023 | — | rising |
| 2 | Syrian Arab Republic | 320,612 t | 2023 | down 15.6% | volatile |
| 3 | France | 573,490 t | 2023 | up 1.6% | volatile |
| 3 | Türkiye | 10,949 t | 2023 | up 22.6% | volatile |
| 4 | Belarus | 330,205 t | 2023 | — | flat |
| 4 | Viet Nam | 6,060 t | 2023 | up 205.3% | rising |
| 5 | Poland | 298,130 t | 2023 | up 92.5% | rising |
| 6 | Spain | 249,260 t | 2023 | up 28.8% | flat |
| 7 | Greece | 210,920 t | 2023 | up 104.4% | volatile |
| 8 | Romania | 158,000 t | 2023 | up 17.8% | rising |
| 9 | Saudi Arabia | 141,518 t | 2023 | up 17.9% | volatile |
| 10 | Bulgaria | 137,170 t | 2023 | up 13.5% | rising |
| 11 | Austria | 135,570 t | 2023 | up 63.5% | rising |
| 12 | Sweden | 132,510 t | 2023 | down 13.6% | falling |
| 13 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 119,980 t | 2023 | down 16.5% | volatile |
| 14 | Czechia | 87,750 t | 2023 | up 69.3% | rising |
| 15 | Croatia | 73,380 t | 2023 | up 33.2% | rising |
| 16 | Finland | 73,000 t | 2023 | down 22.3% | falling |
| 17 | Italy | 68,930 t | 2023 | up 29.2% | rising |
| 18 | Hungary | 60,320 t | 2023 | down 28.9% | falling |
| 19 | Lithuania | 59,600 t | 2023 | down 0.1% | rising |
| 20 | Belgium | 52,330 t | 2023 | down 9.9% | falling |
| 21 | Slovenia | 32,730 t | 2023 | up 54.0% | volatile |
| 22 | Mongolia | 28,893 t | 2023 | down 28.1% | falling |
| 23 | Denmark | 24,700 t | 2023 | down 11.5% | volatile |
| 24 | Latvia | 22,590 t | 2023 | down 5.6% | falling |
| 25 | Slovakia | 19,140 t | 2023 | up 38.5% | rising |
| 26 | Estonia | 18,680 t | 2023 | down 3.8% | flat |
| 27 | Thailand | 17,619 t | 2023 | up 29.1% | rising |
| 28 | Cyprus | 13,980 t | 2023 | up 68.8% | volatile |
| 29 | Portugal | 10,510 t | 2023 | up 72.0% | rising |
| 30 | Uruguay | 8,217 t | 2023 | down 54.3% | rising |
| 31 | Indonesia | 5,714 t | 2023 | up 7.4% | volatile |
| 32 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 4,000 t | 1987 | up 400.0% | volatile |
| 33 | Egypt | 3,459 t | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 34 | Togo | 2,501 t | 2023 | up 6.9% | volatile |
| 35 | Israel | 1,375 t | 2023 | up 19.5% | rising |
| 36 | Belgium-Luxembourg | 0 t | 1999 | — | volatile |
| 36 | Kuwait | 0 t | 2009 | — | volatile |
| 36 | Yugoslav SFR | 0 t | 1991 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 4.98 million t
- Asia 546,720 t
- Europe 4.42 million t
- European Union (27) 3.49 million t
- Western Europe 1.73 million t
- Eastern Europe 1.71 million t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 2,501 t
- Southern Europe 645,730 t
- Western Asia 488,434 t
- Northern Europe 331,080 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 323,113 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 34,853 t
- South-Eastern Asia 29,393 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 28,893 t
- Eastern Asia 28,893 t
- Americas 12,114 t
- South America 8,217 t
- Africa 5,960 t
- Northern Africa 3,459 t
- Western Africa 2,501 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.