Some countries not only are among the top producers of white cheese and other dairy products but also are important exporters of these products to other countries.
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These countries have critical potentillas in dairy products and invest more wisely in the industry.
For instance, European Union, United States, Russia, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, United Kingdom, Mexico, New Zealand, and Australia are the ten top producers of all types of cheese, especially white cheese, in the world.
The global cheese production in 2021 was nearly 22 million metric tons.
About 97% of world cheese is produced by the world’s top ten producers.
As annual worldwide cheese production statistics show, the EU member produced 10,350,000 metric tons.
The United States stands in second place by producing 6,206,000 metric tons of all types of cheeses.
Russian producers earned third place by producing more than 1 million tons.
Brazil, Argentina, Canada, United Kingdom produced 790,000, 544,000, 540,000, and 505,000 metric tons respectively.
Top Cheese Importing Countries
Among the top ten countries which are importing cheese in the world, 8 countries are from Europe Continent and only two countries, The United States and Japan, are non-European.
In 2020, all 5 biggest cheese importers in the world- Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Belgium- were European.
As the world trade statistics show, the value of international purchases of cheese increased more than 21% since 2016 and the five European countries bought nearly 38% of worldwide imported cheese in 2020.
The value of worldwide imported cheese in 2020, was about 32.8 billion USD.
The European countries were the major importers of cheese costing about 22.8 USD or nearly 70% of the global total.
Asian countries costing about 17 percent of all purchases, were in the second place.
The value of cheese imported by Germany was 4.5 billion USD (nearly 14% of total imported cheese).
Top Cheese Exporting Countries
The 15 top countries shipped more than 84% of global cheese exported in 2020 and 80% of exporting countries were European countries.
It means that the absolute majority of these are produced and shipped by European countries.
Only three non-European countries-the United States, New Zealand, and Australia-are among the 15 top major cheese exporters in the world.
with nearly 10% growth, Switzerland was the fastest-growing cheese exporter since 2019, followed by Austria, Belarus, and Poland with 6.2%, 4.1%, and 3.8% respectively.
In 2020, the total value of exported cheese worldwide was 32.8 billion USD.
54% of which was shipped from five countries-Germany, Netherlands, Italy, France, United States- which are the major producers of cheese in the world.
From the continental perspective, European countries gained $ 27.4 billion or 83.5% of all exported cheeses worldwide.
Oceanian countries like New Zealand and Australia were in second place with h 6% share and North American countries were in the next place with 5.3% of cheese shipment in the world.
Number of Cheeses By Country
We can classify several kinds of cheese by country.
In this classification, we can list and identify the number and type of cheeses that every single countrproducesce.
For instance, 106 different kinds of cheese are produced in France.
Italian manufacturers and producers produce 69 types of cheese by a different names.
you can find 48 different kinds of cheese in the UK.
There are more than 43 types of cheese in the United States. 33 various types of cheese are produced, consumed in, or exported from Spain.
Turkish people create more than 21 kinds of cheeses.
You can find fine various types of cheeses with different colors, sizes, and flavors in every shop and supermarket all around the world.
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