Goat Butter Consumption by Country

Italy ranked first in goat butter food supply in 2023, with 32,808 tonnes, or about 43.7 percent of the listed total. The Philippines ranked second at 15,297 tonnes, followed by Belgium at 9,675 tonnes. Luxembourg had the highest listed supply per person at 2.78 grams a day. The listed 2023 total was 75,061 tonnes, and 38 of the 42 country rows reported a value for that year, 28 of them above zero. These figures represent food available for human consumption, not the amount people actually ate.

Indonesia placed fourth by volume at 5,906 tonnes, and the three leading countries together accounted for about 77.0 percent of the listed 2023 total, so a small group of countries accounts for most of the recorded supply.

• Belgium recorded the largest decline by tonnage in the latest year.
• Indonesia lost close to two-fifths of its 2022 level.
• Luxembourg added 75.01 tonnes, up 12.5 percent.
• Russia added 102.87 tonnes, up 72.5 percent.

Butter of Goat Milk Consumption

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#	Country	2023 (tonnes)2023	2023 (grams per person per day)2023
1	Italy IT	32.81K	1.51
2	Philippines PH	15.3K	0.36
3	Belgium BE	9.68K	2.26
4	Indonesia ID	5.91K	0.06
5	Poland PL	4.66K	0.33
6	Austria AT	4.66K	1.4
7	Luxembourg LU	674.13	2.78
8	Russia RU	244.84	0
9	Iraq IQ	217.02	0.02
10	Portugal PT	214.59	0.06
11	South Korea KR	196.66	0.01
12	North Macedonia MK	105.31	0.16
13	Mongolia MN	89	0.07
14	Albania AL	79.26	0.08
15	Algeria DZ	70.2	0
16	Mauritius MU	62.1	0.13
17	Botswana BW	51.22	0.06
18	Libya LY	29.3	0.01
19	Colombia CO	9.95	0
20	Vietnam VN	5	0
21	Angola AO	3.31	0
22	Cameroon CM	2.16	0
23	Laos LA	0.5	0
24	Cambodia KH	0.26	0
25	Timor-Leste TL	0.08	0
26	Papua New Guinea PG	0.05	0
27	Honduras HN	0.02	0
28	Tuvalu TV	0.02	0.01
29	Armenia AM	0	0
30	Belize BZ	0	0
31	Congo CG	0	0
32	Germany DE	0	0
33	Guinea-Bissau GW	0	0
34	Nigeria NG	0	0
35	Saudi Arabia SA	0	0
36	Sri Lanka LK	0	0
37	Syria SY	0	0
38	Ukraine UA	0	0

Belgium and Indonesia Lead the Latest-Year Declines

Belgium lost 4,097 tonnes between 2022 and 2023, down 29.7 percent to 9,675 tonnes, and Indonesia lost 4,061 tonnes, down 40.8 percent. The Philippines shed 2,901 tonnes, down 15.9 percent. Iraq added 41.39 tonnes, up 23.6 percent, Luxembourg added 75.01 tonnes, up 12.5 percent, and Russia added 102.87 tonnes, up 72.5 percent. The 31 countries with a value in both years fell from 88,802 tonnes to 74,707 tonnes, down 14,095 tonnes, or 15.9 percent, with seven countries joining the comparison and none leaving it.

The Philippines Records the Largest Five-Year Decline

Between 2019 and 2023, the 25 countries with a value in both years fell from 100,294 tonnes to 74,457 tonnes, down 25,837 tonnes, or 25.8 percent. The Philippines lost 18,500 tonnes, down 54.7 percent, Belgium shed 5,792 tonnes, and Indonesia gave up 4,089 tonnes. Luxembourg added 80.62 tonnes, Poland added 904 tonnes, and Austria added 2,797 tonnes, up 150.4 percent. Four countries had a 2019 value but no 2023 value, while thirteen had a 2023 value but no 2019 value, and both counts describe data availability only.

Luxembourg Leads Goat Butter Supply per Person

Luxembourg recorded 2.78 grams a day in 2023, ahead of Belgium at 2.26 grams in second and Italy at 1.51 grams in third. Austria sat fourth at 1.40 grams, with the Philippines at 0.36 grams and Poland at 0.33 grams. Italy, first by volume, placed third per person, so the two rankings point to different countries.

What the Goat Butter Data Measures

Butter of goat milk available for human consumption is recorded in tonnes and in grams per person per day for each reporting country over 2019-2023. Annual totals sum reporting countries only. The per-person figure expresses daily food supply relative to population, and neither measure shows how much people actually ate.

Ten countries reported zero in 2023, including Armenia, which fell from 247.35 tonnes in 2022, and Saudi Arabia, which fell from 102.42 tonnes; both drops deserve a source check. A reported zero is a recorded value and a blank cell is missing data, so a zero does not by itself show whether national supply stopped or whether reporting practice changed.

Goat Butter Consumption by Country

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#	Country	2019 (t)	2019 (g/cap/d)	2020 (t)	2020 (g/cap/d)	2021 (t)	2021 (g/cap/d)	2022 (t)	2022 (g/cap/d)	2023 (t)	2023 (g/cap/d)
1	Italy	33.63K	1.53	29.11K	1.33	32.69K	1.5	34.79K	1.6	32.81K	1.51
2	Philippines	33.8K	0.84	29.76K	0.73	26.77K	0.65	18.2K	0.44	15.3K	0.36
3	Belgium	15.47K	3.69	7.16K	1.7	11.06K	2.62	13.77K	3.24	9.68K	2.26
4	Indonesia	10K	0.1	6.33K	0.06	7.15K	0.07	9.97K	0.1	5.91K	0.06
5	Poland	3.76K	0.27	4.39K	0.31	11.7K	0.84	5.51K	0.39	4.66K	0.33
6	Austria	1.86K	0.57	1.94K	0.6	1.98K	0.6	4.64K	1.4	4.66K	1.4
7	Luxembourg	593.51	2.62	504.48	2.19	640.34	2.74	599.12	2.51	674.13	2.78
8	Russia	-	-	-	-	-	-	141.97	0	244.84	0
9	Iraq	185.49	0.01	301.67	0.02	172.97	0.01	175.63	0.01	217.02	0.02
10	Portugal	228.17	0.06	230.01	0.06	253.53	0.07	244.04	0.06	214.59	0.06
11	South Korea	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	196.66	0.01
12	North Macedonia	60.04	0.09	57.94	0.08	78.45	0.12	71.93	0.11	105.31	0.16
13	Mongolia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	89	0.07
14	Albania	10.74	0.01	0	0	0	0	42.41	0.04	79.26	0.08
15	Algeria	384.05	0.02	480.2	0.03	50	0	89.6	0.01	70.2	0
16	Mauritius	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	62.1	0.13
17	Botswana	16.05	0.02	41.7	0.05	31.89	0.04	48.64	0.05	51.22	0.06
18	Libya	34	0.01	209.4	0.08	116.32	0.04	0	0	29.3	0.01
19	Colombia	43.07	0	21.45	0	9.98	0	9.36	0	9.95	0
20	Vietnam	-	-	-	-	0	0	34.32	0	5	0
21	Angola	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3.31	0
22	Cameroon	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2.16	0
23	Laos	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.72	0	0.5	0
24	Cambodia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.26	0
25	Timor-Leste	0.13	0	0.12	0	-	-	0	0	0.08	0
26	Papua New Guinea	0.26	0	12.12	0	0	0	0.15	0	0.05	0
27	Honduras	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	0.02	0
28	Tuvalu	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.02	0.01
29	Armenia	0	0	0	0	0	0	247.35	0.24	0	0
30	Belize	0.78	0.01	0.8	0.01	0.65	0	0.77	0.01	0	0
31	Congo	-	-	-	-	-	-	19.8	0.01	0	0
32	Germany	0	0	400.37	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0
33	Guinea-Bissau	0	0	0.06	0	0.06	0	0.15	0	0	0
34	Nigeria	0	0	0	0	9.6	0	6.2	0	0	0
35	Saudi Arabia	-	-	-	-	-	-	102.42	0.01	0	0
36	Sri Lanka	1.43	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	Syria	44.5	0.01	0	0	0	0	90.9	0.01	0	0
38	Ukraine	185.23	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
39	Tunisia	0	0	20	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
40	Panama	0.03	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
41	Guinea	0.02	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
42	Kuwait	71.72	0.04	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-

Methodology

The source is FAOSTAT Supply Utilization Accounts. Element 5141 reports food supply quantity in tonnes and element 665 reports it in grams per capita per day, for butter of goat milk, over 2019-2023. Annual totals sum country records with reported values, excluding regional and aggregate records. Of the 42 country rows, 38 reported a value in 2023 and 28 of those were above zero. Comparisons between two years use only countries with values at both endpoints, which gives 31 countries for 2022-2023 and 25 for 2019-2023, and the country count and both totals come from that shared set. Percentage changes use the earlier year as the base and are not calculated when that base is zero. Reported zeros are kept as values, blank cells are treated as missing, and values under 1,000 tonnes are shown to two decimals.