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EU-27: Drinking Milk production

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This page contains the European Drinking milk production data, both in tables and charts.

The table offers as well the possibility to:

  • consult the monthly volumes and changes, by clicking on the years in the column headers,
  • access to the DairySheets by clicking on the names of the Member States of the EU.

The charts display:

  • a breakdown of the Drinking milk production by Member States
  • the monthly and average daily Drinking milk production,
  • the year-over-year changes of Drinking milk production in the major EU Players,
  • the yearly Drinking milk production of the last seven years,
  • the Drinking milk production with rolling year

From the Eurostat Handbook: definition of "Drinking milk"

Raw milk, whole milk, semi-skimmed and skimmed milk containing no additives. Relates only to milk directly intended for consumption, normally in containers of 2 l or less. Also includes milk with vitamin additives.

UE-27: Production of Drinking milk (Tons)
COUNTRY 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Var %
Austria 784.770 829.840 765.740 751.040 708.550 674.530 -4,8%
Belgium 676.460 717.450 648.580 642.830 638.460 628.620 -1,5%
Bulgaria 74.920 76.100 77.280 70.380 65.900 72.240 +9,6%
Croatia 224.080 230.600 215.330 231.990 207.680 210.770 +1,5%
Cyprus 56.710 55.090 54.440 56.260 53.250 55.640 +4,5%
Czech Republic 613.990 624.590 626.840 674.780 698.280 695.900 -0,3%
Denmark 514.500 508.200 496.500 461.500 433.100 426.700 -1,5%
Estonia 105.900 106.900 107.200 109.100 104.100 109.800 +5,5%
Finland 590.300 571.000 566.530 533.250 0 0 -
France 3.007.990 3.067.980 2.802.190 2.687.190 2.674.910 2.659.700 -0,6%
Germany 4.522.970 4.565.858 4.379.620 4.102.754 4.031.859 3.986.120 -1,1%
Greece 391.800 382.600 380.270 374.810 360.790 346.690 -3,9%
Hungary 531.430 556.520 522.060 537.840 520.540 518.900 -0,3%
Ireland 549.420 541.110 521.480 518.230 512.560 492.810 -3,9%
Italy 2.327.650 2.393.050 2.481.460 2.521.600 2.509.710 2.467.420 -1,7%
Latvia 41.980 42.070 37.260 27.080 34.500 35.760 +3,7%
Lithuania 86.100 86.340 83.690 68.940 64.160 65.190 +1,6%
Luxembourg 0 0 0 0 0 0 -
Malta 0 0 0 0 0 0 -
Netherlands 0 0 0 0 0 0 -
Poland 1.891.910 1.986.720 1.958.320 1.978.330 1.919.650 1.908.590 -0,6%
Portugal 695.980 714.550 662.710 648.320 667.870 612.820 -8,2%
Romania 331.350 358.070 387.210 370.150 358.550 374.890 +4,6%
Slovakia 227.570 255.190 243.950 229.940 242.250 250.180 +3,3%
Slovenia 164.430 157.930 160.660 149.580 143.850 140.180 -2,6%
Spain 3.134.970 3.583.360 3.976.810 4.244.530 4.573.340 5.030.800 +10,0%
Sweden 732.990 694.050 683.640 685.910 690.890 678.580 -1,8%
TOTAL EU-27 22.280.170 23.105.168 22.839.770 22.676.334 22.214.749 22.442.830 +1,0%
y-o-y % +3,7% -1,1% -0,7% -2,0% +1,0%  
(c) confidential data
NOTE:The countries highlighted in yellow indicate the presence of some confidential data which are not considered in the total calculation of productions.
Source: Eurostat, BLE, ISTAT

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.