India made two-fifths of the world's extra cow's milk
Change in cow's milk production, million tonnes, 2013 to 2023, by country. World (182 countries): 633 to 786 Mt.
- 1. India now has more working-age people than China
- 2. India's UPI now handles 86% as many payments as Visa
- 3. Indian students now outnumber Chinese students in the US
- 4. India's GitHub developers outnumber China's, Brazil's and Japan's combined
- 5. India's stock market grew 23-fold since 2000
- 6. Indian phone users now average 25.7 GB a month
- 7. India's metro network quadrupled in a decade
- 8. India now ships over a third of world rice exports
- 9. India went from 1% to 37% of Russia's crude sales
- 10. India's wild tigers have more than doubled since 2006
- 11. Two in three rickshaws sold in India are electric
- 12. Indians now file more patents at home than Germans
- 13. India published more science papers than Germany and Britain combined
- 14. India now holds more foreign reserves than Saudi Arabia
- 15. Open defecation in India fell from 73% to 7%
- 16. India's sun and wind now outproduce Germany's
- 17. India's landlines have nearly doubled since 2020
- 18. India's debit card payments have fallen by three quarters
- 19. India climbed from tenth to fifth in patent filings
- 20. 13 countries made India their biggest medicine supplier
- 21. India now imports more cotton than it exports
- 22. South Asia nearly doubled its share of the world economy
- 23. India made two-fifths of the world's extra cow's milk
India's share of the world's added cow's milk from 2013 to 2023, up from 24% from 2003 to 2013.
India's cow's milk doubled, from 62.2 to 127.1 million tonnes, passing the United States (91.3 to 102.7).
India's share of the world's cow's milk in 2023, up from 10% in 2013.
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FAOSTAT QCL (release 31 Dec 2025), item 'Raw milk of cattle' (cow's milk; buffalo, goat and sheep milk are not included), production in tonnes, read from the FAOSTAT bulk download via the progrss vault (GUIDELINES §4.11; faostat-full passes value checks, 5 matches, 0 mismatches). Million tonnes, 2013 → 2023: India 62.19 → 127.11 (+64.91, official figure both years); China 30.01 → 41.97 (+11.96); United States 91.28 → 102.65 (+11.38); Pakistan 16.50 → 23.89 (+7.39); all other countries +57.41 (remainder, progrss calculation; it includes Bangladesh +8.10, an FAO estimate, and Ukraine −3.92). World = the sum of the 182 countries reporting both years: 632.62 → 785.67 (+153.05); parts add up. In 2023, 74 smaller countries' values (81.8 Mt, 10% of the total) are FAO estimates or imputations; India, China, the United States and Pakistan are official. Earlier decade, 2003 → 2013, 179 countries: world +115.13 Mt, India +27.22 (23.6%). Shares are progrss calculations. India's 2024 value (135.0 Mt) is an FAO estimate (flag E), so 2023 is the last official year. Licence: FAOSTAT, plates only.
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