Whole Milk Powder (WMP) production, European Union
This page provides with:
  • the annual balance sheet (production-stocks-import-export) of Whole Milk Powder (WMP)* in EU. Data reported on the table and in their related graph are very useful (but not exhaustive) to analyse the European WMP market;

  • the comparison, in the given period, between WMP production and other dairy products produced in Europe: click here
  • a graph illustrating production trends over the last three years;

  • a graph showing WMP production compared with WMP wholesale prices in Germany.
*Milk powder cream, whole milk powder and partly skimmed milk powder.
EU Balance Sheet: Whole Milk Powder (WMP)
'000 tonnes 2009 2010 2011 2012 Mar 2013
Production 749 772 751 735 116
Imports 1 2 2 3 1
Exports 460 447 390 387 80
Source: Processed by CLAL on Eurostat and GTIS data
UE: WMP Productions (tons)
Country 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 ±% from 2012 ¹
Austria
Belgium
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Ireland *
Italy
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Portugal
United Kingdom *
Spain
Sweden
TOTAL EU-15
3.000
70.592
92.600
2.880
145.045
169.580
 
35.000
 
 
109.900
8.376
46.800
5.421
35.820
725.014
3.000
93.852
95.000
3.200
165.190
168.269
 
33.000
 
 
126.600
6.970
53.400
4.354
39.751
792.586
528
67.550
111.000
3.100
123.271
150.877
 
25.000
 
 
139.100
6.500
40.700
2.105
30.800
700.531
434
69.110
118.800
4.240
122.282
165.512
 
34.000
 
 
135.300
9.230
44.000
2.281
22.867
728.056
253
52.290
114.400
3.620
115.359
174.111
 
38.000
 
 
131.400
8.390
44.000
1.214
22.770
705.807
138
47.990
106.000
3.860
112.998
165.000
 
38.000
 
 
121.700
7.904
44.000
1.925
36.135
685.650
114
8.210
25.400
 
26.303
 
 
 
 
 
32.600
2.086
 
584
9.748
105.045
  500,00% (Mar '13)
  -47,74% (Mar '13)
  -10,56% (Mar '13)
  - -
  -7,24% (Mar '13)
  - -
  - -
  - -
  - -
  - -
  -0,91% (Mar '13)
  3,78% (Mar '13)
  - -
  94,67% (Mar '13)
  -7,51% (Mar '13)
 
WMP Productions UE-N10 (tons)
Cyprus
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Malta
Poland
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Slovenia
Hungary
TOTAL EU-N10
 
2.000
 
300
 
39.033
13.786
6.700
2.700
300
64.819
 
2.100
 
5.620
 
44.861
15.662
 
 
803
69.046
 
 
610
1.780
 
30.161
10.617
3.156
 
 
46.324
 
 
300
2.850
 
26.350
10.439
1.823
 
 
41.762
 
 
300
1.360
 
27.063
13.571
1.690
 
 
43.984
 
 
300
2.020
 
31.345
11.979
2.576
 
 
48.220
 
 
 
230
 
7.102
3.214
748
 
12
11.306
  - -
  - -
  - -
  -85,53% (Mar '13)
  - -
  -10,46% (Mar '13)
  14,54% (Mar '13)
  29,64% (Mar '13)
  - -
  - -
 
WMP Productions UE-N2 (tons)
Bulgaria
Romania
TOTAL EU-N2
19
4.350
4.369
10
3.460
3.470
 
2.233
2.233
 
1.783
1.783
 
1.080
1.080
 
1.056
1.056
 
30
30
  - -
  -66,29% (Feb '13)
 
TOTAL EU-27 794.202 865.102 749.088 771.601 750.871 734.926 116.381  
Change on the previous year ² +8,93% -13,41% +3,01% -2,69% -2,12%
-11,31%
 
* Ireland and United Kingdom: yearly updating
(e)= estimate
¹ The percentages are based on the same period of the previous year.
NOTE: Data form Eurostat are subject to adjustment
Source: Eurostat, Productschap Zuivel, ZMB
 
NOTE: Monthly changes of current year are calculeted considering the same countries updated in the corresponding month of previous year; data are not inclusive of Irland and UK productions as they are updated on a yearly basis.
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