Cheese export 1962 - 2024

 

Global sales from cheese exported by all countries totaled US$45 billion for 2024.

The overall value of cheese exports increased by an average 35.1% for all exporting countries from five years earlier in 2020 when total cheese shipments were valued at $33.3 billion.

From 2023 to 2024, the value of globally exported cheese grew 4.2% starting from $43.2 billion.

Shipments from the world’s 5 biggest cheese exporters by value (Germany, Italy, Netherlands, France and the United States of America) generated well over half (55.8%) of the worldwide value of cheese exported in 2024.

Among continents, exporters in European countries sold the highest dollar value worth of cheese on international markets with shipments amounting to $37.7 billion or 83.7% of globally exported cheese. Cheese exports from North America took a 5.9% share, ahead of exporters located in the Oceania continent (mostly New Zealand and Australia) at another 5.5% worth.

Smaller percentages came from suppliers in Asia (2.6%), Latin America (1.9%) excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean, then Africa (0.3%).

For research purposes, the 4-digit Harmonized Tariff System code prefix for cheese and curd is 0406.

Cheese Exports by Country

Below are the 15 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of cheese during 2024.

1. Germany: US$6.7 billion (15% of total cheese exports)
2. Italy: $5.8 billion (13%)
3. Netherlands: $5.8 billion (12.8%)
4. France: $4.3 billion (9.5%)
5. United States: $2.5 billion (5.5%)
6. Denmark: $2.3 billion (5.1%)
7. Belgium: $1.69 billion (3.8%)
8. New Zealand: $1.66 billion (3.7%)
9. Ireland: $1.57 billion (3.5%)
10. Poland: $1.3 billion (2.9%)
11. United Kingdom: $1.13 billion (2.5%)
12. Greece: $1.06 billion (2.4%)
13. Austria: $941.6 million (2.1%)
14. Spain: $866.5 million (1.9%)
15. Switzerland: $820.6 million (1.8%)

By value, the listed 15 countries shipped 85.4% of cheese exported globally in 2024.

Among the top exporters, the fastest-growing cheese exporters since 2023 were: United States of America (up 12.6%), United Kingdom (up 11.6%), Ireland (up 9.6%) and Italy (up 9.3%).

New Zealand was the lone top competitor to post a decline in its exported cheese sales, down -7.3% from 2023.

Searchable List of Cheese Exporting Countries in 2024

The 100 major exporters of cheese in the database below represent 99.997% of the value of cheese sold on international markets during 2024.

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Rank	Exporter	Cheese Exports	2023-4
1.	Germany	$6,742,250,000	+3.4%
2.	Italy	$5,848,888,000	+9.3%
3.	Netherlands	$5,757,666,000	+1.5%
4.	France	$4,292,670,000	+2.8%
5.	United States	$2,471,989,000	+12.6%
6.	Denmark	$2,279,638,000	+6.6%
7.	Belgium	$1,688,125,000	+3.7%
8.	New Zealand	$1,659,138,000	-7.3%
9.	Ireland	$1,567,091,000	+9.6%
10.	Poland	$1,314,590,000	+5.4%

	Exporter	Cheese Exports	2023-4
11.	United Kingdom	$1,134,895,000	+11.6%
12.	Greece	$1,058,286,000	+5.7%
13.	Austria	$941,646,000	+1.4%
14.	Spain	$866,485,000	+5.9%
15.	Switzerland	$820,639,000	+7.9%
16.	Australia	$809,084,000	+18.2%
17.	Czech Republic	$517,765,000	+12.9%
18.	Saudi Arabia	$433,403,000	+9.5%
19.	Luxembourg	$384,929,000	+0.9%
20.	Argentina	$360,266,000	+22.1%

Among the above top international suppliers, the fastest gainers were Pakistan (up 1,522% from 2023), Aruba (up 640%), Panama (up 585%), Malta (up 196.6%) then Albania (up 145.7%).

You can change the presentation order by clicking the triangle icon at the top of any of the columns in the above table. An entry of 0% in the right-most column means that no 2023 data was available.

Countries Earning Largest Trade Surpluses from Cheese

The following countries posted the highest positive net exports for cheese during 2024. Investopedia defines net exports as the value of a country’s total exports minus the value of its total imports. Thus, the statistics below present the surplus between the value of each country’s cheese exports and its import purchases for that same commodity.

1. Netherlands: US$3.6 billion (net export surplus down -1.9% since 2023)
2. Italy: $2.8 billion (up 12.1%)
3. Denmark: $1.8 billion (up 9.1%)
4. New Zealand: $1.6 billion (down -6.4%)
5. Ireland: $1.3 billion (up 13.1%)
6. France: $1.1 billion (down -1.2%)
7. Germany: $783.4 million (up 3.9%)
8. Poland: $560 million (down -5.3%)
9. United States: $472.1 million (up 27.3%)
10. Argentina: $352.1 million (up 26.5%)
11. Greece: $284.4 million (down -3.9%)
12. Cyprus: $266.5 million (up 2.2%)
13. Australia: $229.7 million (up 305.6%)
14. Nicaragua: $206.5 million (down -4.4%)
15. Switzerland: $204.1 million (up 22.6%)

The Netherlands generated the greatest surplus in the international trade of cheese. In turn, this positive albeit slowing cashflow confirms Netherlands’ strong competitive advantage for this specific product category in part due to its strategic geographic location for distributing cheese products to fellow European markets.

Countries Facing Worst Trade Deficits from Cheese

The following countries posted the highest negative net exports for cheese during 2024. Investopedia defines net exports as the value of a country’s total exports minus the value of its total imports. Thus, the statistics below present the deficit between the value of each country’s cheese import purchases and its exports for that same commodity.

1. United Kingdom: -US$1.5 billion (net export surplus up 4.6% since 2023)
2. Japan: -$1.3 billion (down -8.2%)
3. Spain: -$1.1 billion (up 9%%)
4. Mexico: -$996.2 million (up 18.9%)
5. mainland China: -$891.3 million (down -7.6%)
6. Sweden: -$735.1 million (up 7.3%)
7. South Korea: -$642.1 million (down -24.8%)
8. Saudi Arabia: -$579% million (down 0%%)
9. Belgium: -$554.9 million (down -11.8%)
10. Romania: -$497.9 million (up 12.6%)
11. Canada: -$386.4 million (down -1.9%)
12. Portugal: -$356.7 million (up 13.3%)
13. United Arab Emirates: -$351.8 million (down -10.2%)
14. Finland: -$325.3 million (down -0.4%)
15. Brazil: -$283.3 million (up 47%%)

The United Kingdom and Japan recorded the severest deficits in the international trade of cheese. In turn, these negative cashflows highlight those countries’ competitive disadvantages for this specific product category but also signal opportunities for cheese-supplying countries that help satisfy the powerful demand from consumers and businesses.

Cheese Exporting Companies

Below are the top dairy companies that dominate the worldwide trade in cheese and other dairy products. This ranked list was compiled by market information researchers from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)-AID. Shown within brackets is where headquarters is located for the cheese exporting companies.

• Nestle (Switzerland)
• Danone (France)
• Lactalis including Parmalat (France)
• Fonterra (New Zealand)
• FrieslandCampina (Netherlands)
• Dairy Farmers of America (United States)
• Arla Foods (Denmark)
• Saputo (Canada)
• Dean Foods (United State)
• Yili Group (China)
• Unilever (Netherlands/United Kingdom)
• Meiji Dairies (Japan)
• DMK Deutsches Milchkontor GmbH (Germany)
• Mengniu Dairy (China)

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What Earth Would Look Like If Only 100 People Lived Here

 

If Earth had just 100 people:
↳ 34 doesn't have internet
↳ 13 can't read or write
↳ 8 don't have clean water
↳ 8 live on less than $2 a day

And you're reading this on LinkedIn.
Think about that for a second.

The truth is:
You're already in the top 1%

7 ways to use your luck to get unstuck:

1/ Turn Knowledge Into Action
↳ Pick one course (not five)
↳ Study 25 mins every morning
↳ Teach someone what you learned

2/ Create Your Success Routine
↳ Wake up 45 mins earlier
↳ Read 10 pages before screens
↳ Write 3 goals before email
↳ Small wins compound quickly

3/ Build Real Connections
↳ Message 2 new people daily
↳ Share their wins (not just yours)
↳ Ask how you can help them

4/ Master Your Money
↳ Learn one money skill monthly
↳ Track every dollar for 30 days
↳ Knowledge equals freedom

5/ Boost Your Energy
↳ Walk 15 mins at lunch
↳ Sleep 7+ hours (non-negotiable)
↳ High energy unlocks everything else

6/ Create Instead of Consume
↳ Write one helpful post weekly
↳ Share three lessons you learned
↳ Build something small daily

7/ Practice Deep Gratitude
↳ List 3 unique blessings daily
↳ Help one person without asking
↳ Grateful people grow faster

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Source: International IQ Test, updated as of January 1, 2025. This study is based on data from 1,352,763 people worldwide who took the same IQ test on this website in 2024.

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How Couples Met

 

by Katharina Buchholz,

 Today’s daters are taking matters into their own hands. Seemingly no longer satisfied with the potential partners that life throws at them at work, in school and in their circle of friends, an increasingly large number of heterosexual daters is opting to meet their partner online.

Surveys carried out and analyzed by Stanford University show that between 1995 and 2017 the number of heterosexuals who met their partner on the internet rose sharply from 2 percent to 39 percent. With the help of dating apps like Tinder and eHarmony, but also through social networking sites like Facebook, daters reconnected with old friends and acquaintances (8 percent of couples who met online), were introduced to someone (11 percent) or – in the majority of cases – met someone completely new on their own (81 percent).

The authors of the survey concluded that the main draw of looking for a stranger online was a larger set of choices than when leveraging friends and family, which was especially useful when “searching for something unusual or hard‐to‐find.“ In a similar vein, meeting your partner in a bar or restaurant was also on the rise between 1995 and 2017.

Stanford researchers excluded homosexuals from their analysis because they constitute a minority sexual orientation, making meeting someone online a more obvious choice for them than for heterosexuals. These were usually in a “thick dating market” (quote from Stanford) and therefore normally also able to identify several potential mates in their offline lives, according to the research.

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Visualizing Everyone that has Ever Lived

 

How do you visualize every human that has ever lived in the last 2 million years? Max Roser with Our World in Data had the idea to turn us all into grains of sand within an hourglass, and to equate the passing of people to the passing of time. The Humanity Today and Humanity’s Past infographic highlights a few key points in history and gives us a perspective of just how population growth has exploded over the last 2000 years.

Our past

Before we look ahead, let’s look back. How many came before us? How many humans have ever lived?

It is not possible to answer this question precisely, but demographers Toshiko Kaneda and Carl Haub have tackled the question using the ​​historical knowledge that we do have.

There isn’t a particular moment in which humanity came into existence, as the transition from species to species is gradual. But if one wants to count all humans one has to make a decision about when the first humans lived. The two demographers used 200,000 years before today as this cutoff.1

The demographers estimate that in these 200,000 years about 109 billion people have lived and died.2

It is these 109 billion people we have to thank for the civilization that we live in. The languages we speak, the food we cook, the music we enjoy, the tools we use – what we know we learned from them. The houses we live in, the infrastructure we rely on, the grand achievements of architecture – much of what we see around us was built by them.

Our present

In 2022 7.95 billion of us are alive. Taken together with those who have died, about 117 billion humans have been born since the dawn of modern humankind.

This means that those of us who are alive now represent about 6.8% of all people who ever lived.

These numbers are hard to grasp. I tried to bring it into a visualization to put them into perspective.3

It’s a giant hourglass. But instead of measuring the passage of time, it measures the passage of people.

Each grain of sand here represents 10 million people: each year 140 million babies are born. So we add 14 grains of sand to the hourglass. Every year, 60 million people die; this means 6 grains pass through the hourglass and are added to the large number of people who have died.4

As noted on the graphic, this is an updated adaptation of a 2013 visualization by Oliver Uberti.

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