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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 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2022 2023 Var % Period
Austria 781.980 796.300 784.770 829.840 765.740 751.040 563.880 535.900 -5,0% Jan - Sep '23
Belgium 678.260 673.130 676.460 717.450 648.580 642.830 478.580 480.970 +0,5% Jan - Sep '23
Bulgaria 66.110 74.950 74.920 76.100 77.280 70.380 58.110 54.120 -6,9% Jan - Oct '23
Croatia 222.560 217.550 224.080 230.600 215.330 231.990 175.350 160.700 -8,4% Jan - Sep '23
Cyprus 61.500 58.820 56.710 55.090 54.440 56.260 42.230 41.320 -2,2% Jan - Sep '23
Czech Republic 650.160 635.420 613.990 624.590 626.840 674.780 557.110 576.140 +3,4% Jan - Oct '23
Denmark 518.000 514.600 514.500 508.200 496.500 461.500 346.500 328.800 -5,1% Jan - Sep '23
Estonia 100.200 104.700 105.900 106.900 107.200 109.100 91.600 87.200 -4,8% Jan - Oct '23
Finland 641.610 618.330 590.300 571.000 566.530 533.250 441.550 397.300 (e)

 -10,0% Jan - Oct '23
France 3.229.530 3.102.590 3.007.990 3.067.980 2.802.190 2.688.170 2.017.610 2.015.460 -0,1% Jan - Sep '23
Germany 4.743.280 4.646.095 4.522.970 4.565.858 4.379.620 4.102.754 3.063.568 3.048.518 (e)

 -0,5% Jan - Sep '23
Greece 418.800 401.250 391.800 382.600 380.270 374.810 278.920 270.230 -3,1% Jan - Sep '23
Hungary 525.740 520.260 531.430 556.520 522.060 537.840 447.080 420.340 -6,0% Jan - Oct '23
Ireland 554.120 552.760 549.420 541.110 521.480 518.230 436.050 433.730 -0,5% Jan - Oct '23
Italy 2.459.030 2.425.430 2.327.650 2.393.050 2.481.460 2.521.600 1.884.980 1.881.830 (e)

 -0,2% Jan - Sep '23
Latvia 55.850 42.080 41.980 42.070 37.260 27.080 22.410 31.020 +38,4% Jan - Oct '23
Lithuania 89.190 87.480 86.100 86.340 83.690 68.940 58.330 53.790 -7,8% Jan - Oct '23
Luxembourg (c) (c) (c) (c) (c) (c) (c) (c) - Jan - Oct '23
Malta (c) (c) (c) (c) (c) (c) (c) (c) - Jan - Oct '23
Netherlands (c) (c) (c) (c) (c) (c) (c) (c) - Jan - Sep '23
Poland 1.732.690 1.776.800 1.891.910 1.986.720 1.958.320 1.978.330 1.472.490 1.422.250 -3,4% Jan - Sep '23
Portugal 720.660 766.240 695.980 714.550 662.710 648.320 533.700 563.120 +5,5% Jan - Oct '23
Romania 289.960 306.220 331.350 358.070 387.210 370.150 274.710 264.620 -3,7% Jan - Sep '23
Slovakia 248.420 242.920 227.570 255.190 243.950 229.940 191.630 202.500 +5,7% Jan - Oct '23
Slovenia 177.040 168.030 164.430 157.930 160.660 149.580 123.690 119.670 -3,3% Jan - Oct '23
Spain 3.607.910 3.257.010 3.134.970 3.583.360 3.976.810 4.244.530 3.180.320 3.398.130 +6,8% Jan - Sep '23
Sweden 765.080 754.110 732.990 694.050 683.640 685.910 507.630 514.520 +1,4% Jan - Sep '23
TOTAL EU-27 23.337.680 22.743.075 22.280.170 23.105.168 22.839.770 22.677.314 16.949.918 17.057.808 (e) +0,6% Jan - Sep '23
y-o-y % -2,5% -2,0% +3,7% -1,1% -0,7%      
(e) estimated data
(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, ISTAT, BLE, Stimato CLAL

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.

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