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German "Länder": Monthly Milk Deliveries

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On this page, you will find:
  • a table listing the monthly deliveries of cow's milk in the 16 German states (German Länder);
  • a table listing the monthly deliveries of cow's organic milk in the German Länder over a given period;
  • a summary table, which records the sum of conventional, organic and "Extra" Germany (processed in Germany, but coming from other EU Members States) deliveries of cow's milk over a given period;
  • two charts showing the monthly figures of conventional and organic milk deliveries in Germany;
  • a chart showing the share of the milk deliveried in the German Länder.
German Länder deliveries can be viewed from 2016 and changes in Germany's milk deliveries.

Farm-gate milk prices in Germany » Organic milk prices in Germany »

2022 2024
Milk deliveries in 2023 with breakdown by German Länder ('000 tons)
German Länder Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 2023 ± on 2022 *
Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg 251 229 254 249 261 250 255 248 234 239 231 243 2.944 -0,2%
Niedersachsen / Bremen 615 564 624 611 639 611 623 602 567 576 556 588 7.174 +1,7%
Nordrhein-Westfalen 281 258 287 281 291 277 281 271 255 260 252 267 3.261 +0,3%
Hessen / Rheinland-Pfalz / Saarland 149 136 152 148 154 147 150 144 136 139 134 142 1.730 +1,9%
Baden-Württemberg 178 164 184 181 188 180 182 175 166 170 163 173 2.104 +1,7%
Bayern 596 550 619 605 628 603 612 587 556 570 544 575 7.044 +2,3%
Bundesgebiet West 2.071 1.901 2.119 2.073 2.161 2.067 2.104 2.027 1.914 1.954 1.880 1.987 24.258 +1,5%
Berlin / Brandenburg 98 89 99 96 99 95 96 93 87 90 86 90 1.118 -1,1%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 118 109 121 118 122 117 121 117 111 113 108 114 1.391 +2,4%
Sachsen 135 124 139 134 139 133 136 131 126 128 123 129 1.575 +0,9%
Sachsen-Anhalt 83 75 84 81 84 80 82 79 74 76 72 76 947 -1,8%
Thüringen 67 61 69 67 69 66 68 65 62 63 60 64 779 -0,1%
Bundesgebiet Ost 500 458 512 496 513 491 504 484 461 470 450 472 5.810 +0,3%
Organic Milk deliveries in 2023 with breakdown by German Länder ('000 tons)
German Länder Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 2023 ± on 2022 *
Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg 4,41 4,08 4,61 4,62 5,01 4,71 4,76 4,62 4,30 4,25 4,03 4,30 53,69 +16,1%
Niedersachsen / Bremen 10,24 9,36 10,45 10,63 11,40 10,64 10,71 10,16 9,94 10,00 9,62 10,10 123,26 +11,1%
Nordrhein-Westfalen 8,25 7,67 8,44 8,30 9,01 8,30 8,23 7,87 7,50 7,71 7,39 7,93 96,60 -0,4%
Hessen / Rheinland-Pfalz / Saarland 8,61 7,79 8,79 8,97 9,72 8,80 8,66 8,54 8,11 7,92 7,37 7,90 101,18 -0,9%
Baden-Württemberg 15,72 14,53 16,49 16,34 17,34 16,08 16,33 15,80 15,15 15,41 13,91 14,76 187,84 +3,0%
Bayern 57,20 53,07 60,11 59,40 63,06 57,62 57,84 56,53 53,78 54,41 50,45 54,54 678,00 +4,4%
Bundesgebiet West 104,43 96,49 108,88 108,26 115,55 106,15 106,52 103,51 98,77 99,70 92,78 99,53 1.240,57 +4,4%
Berlin / Brandenburg 3,51 3,23 3,52 3,48 3,74 3,46 3,43 3,44 3,14 3,12 3,06 3,27 40,39 +3,3%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 2,41 2,12 2,39 2,35 2,53 2,37 2,36 2,30 2,27 2,18 2,09 2,19 27,56 +6,4%
Sachsen/Sachsen-Anhalt 5,53 4,95 5,54 5,23 5,44 5,10 5,46 5,21 4,90 5,37 5,18 5,60 63,50 +15,9%
Thüringen 0,90 0,81 0,88 0,89 1,00 0,86 0,84 0,79 0,79 0,81 0,81 0,84 10,22 +8,6%
Bundesgebiet Ost 12,35 11,11 12,33 11,95 12,71 11,79 12,09 11,74 11,10 11,48 11,13 11,89 141,67 +9,6%
Germany Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 2023 ± on 2022 *
Conventional milk 2.571 2.359 2.631 2.570 2.674 2.559 2.607 2.511 2.375 2.424 2.329 2.459 30.069 +1,2%
change * +3,0% +1,9% +1,8% +2,7% +2,0% +1,8% +2,0% +0,7% +0,0% +0,1% -1,2% -0,3%
Organic milk 117 108 121 120 128 118 119 115 110 111 104 111 1.382 +4,9%
change * +8,2% +8,2% +8,8% +8,9% +5,2% +4,0% +4,7% +4,8% +4,8% +2,1% -1,7% +0,8%
Extra Germany 87 77 88 87 93 86 82 76 72 75 71 80 973 +5,1%
change * +23,2% +10,1% +4,9% +18,1% +13,1% +13,0% +4,9% -2,1% -0,1% -5,2% -10,5% -5,0%
Total Germany 2023 2.774 2.543 2.840 2.777 2.895 2.763 2.809 2.702 2.556 2.610 2.504 2.650 32.424
% change on 2022 +3,7% +2,4% +2,2% +3,4% +2,5% +2,2% +2,2% +0,8% +0,2% 0,0% -1,5% -0,4% +1,5%
Total Germany 2022 2.675 2.484 2.778 2.685 2.826 2.704 2.748 2.681 2.551 2.611 2.543 2.662 31.947
Last update: 02-05-2024
* % change from same period of previous year.
Source: BLE

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.

MILK PRODUCTION / COW - Quintals
German Länder May
2021 		Nov
2021 		May
2022 		Nov
2022 		May
2023 		Nov
2023 		± on
2023
Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg 7,33 6,44 7,42 6,59 7,57 6,87 +4,1%
Niedersachsen / Bremen 7,83 6,79 7,89 7,08 8,10 7,18 +1,5%
Nordrhein-Westfalen 7,69 6,63 7,77 7,00 7,91 6,91 -1,3%
Hessen / Rheinland-Pfalz / Saarland 7,05 5,90 6,81 6,19 7,11 6,25 +1,0%
Baden-Württemberg 6,52 5,44 6,37 5,68 6,60 5,72 +0,8%
Bayern 6,26 5,27 6,18 5,51 6,46 5,63 +2,1%
Berlin / Brandenburg 8,07 7,14 7,85 7,09 8,14 7,21 +1,6%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 7,94 7,16 7,95 7,24 8,28 7,41 +2,4%
Sachsen/Sachsen-Anhalt 8,19 7,34 8,20 7,63 8,47 7,64 +0,1%
Thüringen 8,19 7,17 8,05 7,46 8,33 7,51 +0,6%
Total Germany 7,22 6,22 7,19 6,47 7,42 6,55 +1,4%
Former Federal territory 7,96 6,81 7,94 7,12 8,19 7,21 +1,2%
New Federal states 11,51 10,30 11,46 10,58 11,88 10,64 +0,6%
(e) estimated by CLAL
Last update: 02-05-2024
Processed by CLAL
Number of Dairy Cows
German Länder May
2020 		Nov
2020 		May
2021 		Nov
2021 		May
2022 		Nov
2022 		May
2023 		Nov
2023 		± on
2022
Baden-Württemberg 325.288 320.852 319.540 315.337 314.473 314.796 310.855 309.148 -1,8%
Bayern 1.119.195 1.104.468 1.102.479 1.086.209 1.082.827 1.078.276 1.070.895 1.056.855 -2,0%
Berlin 107 108 112 108 115 111 106 102 -8,1%
Brandenburg 140.083 137.068 134.545 132.351 131.182 128.947 126.696 123.621 -4,1%
Bremen 3.323 3.295 3.306 3.147 3.074 3.162 3.171 3.023 -4,4%
Hamburg 1.143 1.190 1.152 1.136 1.120 1.184 1.173 1.029 -13,1%
Hessen 130.005 128.033 127.481 124.857 124.436 122.606 122.023 119.579 -2,5%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 160.419 159.115 156.850 153.153 152.361 151.354 150.649 149.230 -1,4%
Niedersachsen 822.178 814.114 809.498 798.278 801.349 804.170 799.337 783.835 -2,5%
Nordrhein-Westfalen 397.824 393.221 387.862 384.215 381.574 383.400 378.939 375.141 -2,2%
Rheinland-Pfalz 104.111 101.872 100.023 98.537 97.389 97.178 95.868 94.264 -3,0%
Saarland 12.980 12.676 12.499 12.500 12.415 12.363 12.189 11.921 -3,6%
Sachsen 176.116 174.958 174.491 171.898 170.055 169.138 167.979 164.343 -2,8%
Sachsen-Anhalt 110.499 108.103 106.476 103.628 102.225 101.164 101.137 97.692 -3,4%
Schleswig-Holstein 370.787 370.888 364.856 360.245 357.034 357.574 350.685 341.631 -4,5%
Thüringen 95.219 91.449 90.339 87.117 85.692 84.294 83.489 81.401 -3,4%
Total Germany 3.969.277 3.921.410 3.891.509 3.832.716 3.817.321 3.809.717 3.775.191 3.712.815 -2,5%
Former Federal territory 3.286.941 3.250.717 3.228.808 3.184.569 3.175.806 3.174.820 3.145.241 3.096.528 -2,5%
New Federal states 682.336 670.693 662.701 648.147 641.515 634.897 629.950 616.287 -2,9%
(e) estimated by CLAL
Last update: 20-12-2023
Source: Statistisches Bundesamt

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