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German "Länder": Monthly Milk Deliveries

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On this page, you will find:
  • a table listing the monthly deliveries of cow's milk in the 16 German states (German Länder);
  • a table listing the monthly deliveries of cow's organic milk in the German Länder over a given period;
  • a summary table, which records the sum of conventional, organic and "Extra" Germany (processed in Germany, but coming from other EU Members States) deliveries of cow's milk over a given period;
  • two charts showing the monthly figures of conventional and organic milk deliveries in Germany;
  • a chart showing the share of the milk deliveried in the German Länder.
German Länder deliveries can be viewed from 2016 and changes in Germany's milk deliveries.

Farm-gate milk prices in Germany » Organic milk prices in Germany »

2022
Milk deliveries in 2023 with breakdown by German Länder ('000 tons)
German Länder Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 2023 ± on 2022 *
Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg 251 229 254 249 261 250 255 248 234       2.230 -0,3%
Niedersachsen / Bremen 615 564 624 611 639 611 623 602 567       5.454 +2,4%
Nordrhein-Westfalen 281 258 287 281 291 277 281 271 255       2.482 +1,2%
Hessen / Rheinland-Pfalz / Saarland 149 136 152 148 154 147 150 144 136       1.316 +2,6%
Baden-Württemberg 178 164 184 181 188 180 182 175 166       1.598 +2,2%
Bayern 596 550 619 605 628 603 612 587 556       5.356 +2,8%
Bundesgebiet West 2.071 1.901 2.119 2.073 2.161 2.067 2.104 2.027 1.914       18.437 +2,0%
Berlin / Brandenburg 98 89 99 96 99 95 96 93 87       853 -0,6%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 118 109 121 118 122 117 121 117 111       1.055 +2,7%
Sachsen 135 124 139 134 139 133 136 131 126       1.196 +1,7%
Sachsen-Anhalt 83 75 84 81 84 80 82 79 74       723 -0,9%
Thüringen 67 61 69 67 69 66 68 65 62       592 +0,5%
Bundesgebiet Ost 500 458 512 496 513 491 504 484 461       4.419 +0,9%
Organic Milk deliveries in 2023 with breakdown by German Länder ('000 tons)
German Länder Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 2023 ± on 2022 *
Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg 4,41 4,08 4,61 4,62 5,01 4,71 4,76 4,62 4,30       41,11 +20,8%
Niedersachsen / Bremen 10,24 9,36 10,45 10,63 11,40 10,64 10,71 10,16 9,94       93,53 +14,1%
Nordrhein-Westfalen 8,25 7,67 8,44 8,30 9,01 8,30 8,23 7,87 7,50       73,57 +0,7%
Hessen / Rheinland-Pfalz / Saarland 8,61 7,79 8,79 8,97 9,72 8,80 8,66 8,54 8,11       77,99 +1,0%
Baden-Württemberg 15,72 14,53 16,49 16,34 17,34 16,08 16,33 15,80 15,15       143,76 +4,2%
Bayern 57,20 53,07 60,11 59,40 63,06 57,62 57,84 56,53 53,78       518,60 +5,5%
Bundesgebiet West 104,43 96,49 108,88 108,26 115,55 106,15 106,52 103,51 98,77       948,56 +5,9%
Berlin / Brandenburg 3,51 3,23 3,52 3,48 3,74 3,46 3,43 3,44 3,14       30,95 +2,8%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 2,41 2,12 2,39 2,35 2,53 2,37 2,36 2,30 2,27       21,11 +6,3%
Sachsen/Sachsen-Anhalt 5,53 4,95 5,54 5,23 5,44 5,10 5,46 5,21 4,90       47,35 +17,6%
Thüringen 0,90 0,81 0,88 0,89 1,00 0,86 0,84 0,79 0,79       7,77 +12,6%
Bundesgebiet Ost 12,35 11,11 12,33 11,95 12,71 11,79 12,09 11,74 11,10       107,17 +10,3%
Germany Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 2023 ± on 2022 *
Conventional milk 2.571 2.359 2.631 2.570 2.674 2.559 2.607 2.511 2.375 22.856 +1,8%
change * +3,0% +1,9% +1,8% +2,7% +2,0% +1,8% +2,0% +0,7% +0,0%
Organic milk 117 108 121 120 128 118 119 115 110 1.056 +6,4%
change * +8,2% +8,2% +8,8% +8,9% +5,2% +4,0% +4,7% +4,8% +4,8%
Extra Germany 87 77 88 87 93 86 82 76 72 747 +9,3%
change * +23,2% +10,1% +4,9% +18,1% +13,1% +13,0% +4,9% -2,1% -0,1%
Total Germany 2023 2.774 2.543 2.840 2.777 2.895 2.763 2.809 2.702 2.556 24.659
% change on 2022 +3,7% +2,4% +2,2% +3,4% +2,5% +2,2% +2,2% +0,8% +0,2% +2,2%
Total Germany 2022 2.675 2.484 2.778 2.685 2.826 2.704 2.748 2.681 2.551 2.611 2.543 2.662 31.947
Last update: 01-12-2023
* % change from same period of previous year.
Source: BLE

Rolling year: for each month the chart visualizes the production in that month plus the production of the previous 11 months. With this method is always considered the total production in a time window of 12 months, so it is possible to identify the trend without the effect of seasonality.

MILK PRODUCTION / COW - Quintals
German Länder May
2020 		Nov
2020 		May
2021 		Nov
2021 		May
2022 		Nov
2022 		May
2023 		± on
2022
Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg 7,16 6,39 7,33 6,44 7,42 6,59 7,57 +1,9%
Niedersachsen / Bremen 7,66 6,80 7,83 6,79 7,89 7,08 8,10 +2,6%
Nordrhein-Westfalen 7,49 6,71 7,69 6,63 7,77 7,00 7,91 +1,8%
Hessen / Rheinland-Pfalz / Saarland 6,73 6,10 7,05 5,90 6,81 6,19 7,11 +4,3%
Baden-Württemberg 6,32 5,63 6,52 5,44 6,37 5,68 6,60 +3,6%
Bayern 6,18 5,34 6,26 5,27 6,18 5,51 6,46 +4,5%
Berlin / Brandenburg 7,90 7,11 8,07 7,14 7,85 7,09 8,14 +3,7%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 8,01 7,11 7,94 7,16 7,95 7,24 8,28 +4,1%
Sachsen/Sachsen-Anhalt 8,05 7,37 8,19 7,34 8,20 7,63 8,47 +3,3%
Thüringen 8,02 7,39 8,19 7,17 8,05 7,46 8,33 +3,4%
Total Germany 7,07 6,28 7,22 6,22 7,19 6,47 7,42 +3,3%
Former Federal territory 7,78 6,89 7,96 6,81 7,94 7,12 8,19 +3,1%
New Federal states 11,32 10,30 11,51 10,30 11,46 10,58 11,88 +3,6%
(e) estimated by CLAL
Last update: 01-12-2023
Processed by CLAL
Number of Dairy Cows
German Länder May
2020 		Nov
2020 		May
2021 		Nov
2021 		May
2022 		Nov
2022 		May
2023 		± on
2022
Baden-Württemberg 325.288 320.852 319.540 315.337 314.473 314.796 310.855 -1,3%
Bayern 1.119.195 1.104.468 1.102.479 1.086.209 1.082.827 1.078.276 1.070.895 -0,7%
Berlin 107 108 112 108 115 111 106 -4,5%
Brandenburg 140.083 137.068 134.545 132.351 131.182 128.947 126.696 -1,7%
Bremen 3.323 3.295 3.306 3.147 3.074 3.162 3.171 +0,3%
Hamburg 1.143 1.190 1.152 1.136 1.120 1.184 1.173 -0,9%
Hessen 130.005 128.033 127.481 124.857 124.436 122.606 122.023 -0,5%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 160.419 159.115 156.850 153.153 152.361 151.354 150.649 -0,5%
Niedersachsen 822.178 814.114 809.498 798.278 801.349 804.170 799.337 -0,6%
Nordrhein-Westfalen 397.824 393.221 387.862 384.215 381.574 383.400 378.939 -1,2%
Rheinland-Pfalz 104.111 101.872 100.023 98.537 97.389 97.178 95.868 -1,3%
Saarland 12.980 12.676 12.499 12.500 12.415 12.363 12.189 -1,4%
Sachsen 176.116 174.958 174.491 171.898 170.055 169.138 167.979 -0,7%
Sachsen-Anhalt 110.499 108.103 106.476 103.628 102.225 101.164 101.137 0,0%
Schleswig-Holstein 370.787 370.888 364.856 360.245 357.034 357.574 350.685 -1,9%
Thüringen 95.219 91.449 90.339 87.117 85.692 84.294 83.489 -1,0%
Total Germany 3.969.277 3.921.410 3.891.509 3.832.716 3.817.321 3.809.717 3.775.191 -1,1%
Former Federal territory 3.286.941 3.250.717 3.228.808 3.184.569 3.175.806 3.174.820 3.145.241 -1,0%
New Federal states 682.336 670.693 662.701 648.147 641.515 634.897 629.950 -1,8%
(e) estimated by CLAL
Last update: 28-06-2023
Source: Statistisches Bundesamt
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