FREE TOOL · 48 MARKETS · 2025
Cheese Market Sizer
Pick a market and see how much cheese it consumed in 2025, how that compares per person, what share your volume represents and how big the market could be at another market's consumption level.
Consumption 2025
tonnes of cheese
Per person
per year
Population
people, 2025
Size rank
of 48 markets by consumption
Cheese eaten per person, 2025
Your share of the market
Example volume. Replace it with your own.
around 2.4%
of Ukraine's 2025 cheese consumption. Roughly 1 in every 42 kg of cheese eaten in Ukraine.
Market headroom
Close the gap by
around 380,000 t
If Ukraine closed 25% of the gap to Switzerland, at 9.8 kg per person: about 170,000 tonnes more than today, 82% larger than the 2025 market.
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Source: Zenith Global Commercial, Global Cheese Database 2026. Figures are 2025 actuals, rounded. Market size is shown as a rounded lower bound, so share results are indicative.
Production basis: formally manufactured cheese in every market. Farmstead and artisanal output made outside the milk-collection system is not included.
Ukraine: consumption includes cheese products.
The full database covers production, imports, exports and consumption for 39 cheese types in 48 markets, with retail prices and trade values.
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