In 2022, Germany was the largest exporter of cheese worldwide with exports amounting to a value of of 6.2 billion U.S. dollars, followed by the Netherlands with 5.4 billion dollars in cheese exports.
Cheese production worldwide
In the dairy industry, cheese production ranks second after cow milk in terms of production volume: in 2021, approximately 544 million metric tons of cow milk were produced, compared to about 21.86 million metric tons of cheese. The European Union was the major global producer of cheese in 2021, with over 10.35 million metric tons of cheese produced in the EU-27. The United States came second with a cheese production volume of 6.2 million metric tons. Wisconsin and California were the two leading U.S. states for cheese production in 2021.
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UN Comtrade. (June 21, 2023). Leading exporters of cheese worldwide in 2022 (in billion U.S. dollars) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved June 18, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/827446/top-exporters-of-cheese-global/
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