WHAT!? This is a travesty. We can’t have those thrice cursed plastic brick stacking Danes out-cheesing us. Jan-Kees, rev up the whey separators. We have work to do.

This is accurate. I live in Finland and didn't make any cheese that year

Besides Danablu cheese, most Danish cheese is pretty "safe" (bit boring). Unlike countries like France we (I happen to be a Danish dairy man) don't use raw milk for cheese production because we had some bad listeria outbreaks some 100 years ago meaning all milk must be pasteurised, a law that went into effect in 1935. But that's also why Danablu is a bit more interesting, as it only undergoes thermisation at 60°C for 1 minute instead of the usual at least 72-76°C/15sec.
Anyway, it's a lot of Danbo and Havarti, nothing too exciting.

I'm actually more interested to see Estonia on the map, I didn't know their game

Finally someone posts some relevant data

For the UK context, in 2024 we produced 821,000 tonnes in 2024 With a population estimate of 69,281,437 is 11.8KG/person.

Which is a lot lower than I expected, honestly.

Did the maths for my own sake, so just in case anyone is interested, the UK was around 11.9 in 2024. Lower than I expected since we eat a ton of cheddar, but the UK's population density is quite high and I guess we don't export that much.

Wow Denmark makes more cheese than The Netherlands? I’ll bedamned.

Jesus Christ, the Danes could literally 1:1 model their entire population out of cheese (presuming they weigh about the human average of ~75kg) and have some to spare!

Cyprus soloing double Swiss output and yet have no cheese named for them. Half the size and double the output.

ok but most of it tastes nasty

source: dutch

My German friend was just telling me yesterday how he makes smoked cheeses as a side hustle and sells them to Sweden and Estonia. With this title, I had to do a double take.

British cheese is a state secret, or, or....Monty Python was the truth.

Wild that I don’t see more Danish cheese everywhere. Share some ya darn dairy Viking yahoos.

Would also be interesting to see the cheese-part of the GDP

The dairy industry regularly puts cows on what the factory farmers call "rape racks", because the cows have to regularly give birth in order to constantly produce milk (mammals produce milk after giving birth). These cows are "used up" so quickly on factory farms, that they live only about 20% as long as unfarmed cows. Watch for free Dominion (or download) and Earthlings.

Dairy farms somehow managed to become more cruel than the chicken and fur industry (the latter sometimes skin animals alive because killing them damages the fur, or anally electrocutes them).

The worst 2 industries when it comes to the total amount of pain caused are:

• the fish factory-farming industry which kills more fish than the fishing industry, enslaving them in torturous conditions their entire lives before slowly torturing them to death, and
• the fishing industry which slowly tortures 1-3 trillion fish to death every year - usually by slowly suffocating them to death and/or slowly crushing them to death.

I eat about 6kg of cheese every year & I'm an above average consumer I'd have thought lol.

For any USians interested in doing the math, here's some data to start with (in millions of pounds). And with the obligatory caveat that nothing is being claimed about quality.

https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/dymcheese_prod_tot.pdf