Monday, 3 October 2022

World’s Top Cheese-producing Countries per Capita


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What country immediately comes to mind when you think of cheese? Is it France or perhaps Italy, given that they use enormous quantities of cheese for all that delicious pasta and pizza? Or is it the Netherlands? What about the United States? 

The United States is the world’s largest producer of cheese, followed by Germany, France, and Italy. But when it comes to the highest cheese production per capita, do these four nations still top the charts?

We did the research and the math to see what comes up. You might be surprised by some of the results. 

And because the US is in a league of its own when it comes to cheese production, we thought we’d also look at US states as if they were separate countries, and ran the numbers again, with surprising results. Keep reading to learn about all of these findings, and more! 

Denmark, New Zealand, and Ireland are the world’s top cheese producers per capita 

We first looked at each country’s total yearly cheese production and correlated that with the size of each country’s population to see how much cheese is produced per person. With just a couple of exceptions, the cheese production volumes are for the year of 2021.

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