The charts below give information about the world's top three producers for four different dairy products (milk, cheese, butter, milk powder) in the year of 2012.

The diagrams illustrate the three biggest makers producing

milk

,

cheese

, butter and

milk

powder in the world in 2012.

Overall

, the

EU

provided

milk

and

cheese

the most in the world.

In addition

, the quantity of

milk

that was produced was the largest, compared to that of

cheese

, butter and powder in 2012. Approximately 143,000 metric

tons

of

milk

were produced by the

EU

in 2012, followed by India (127,000 metric

tons

) and the United States (about 90,000 metric

tons

).

Similarly

, the

EU

provided 7,120 metric

tons

of

cheese

, compared to the United States and Brazil around 5,000 metric

tons

and 700 metric

tons

, respectively.

Conversely

, just 770 metric

tons

of

milk

powder were manufactured by the

EU

in 2012. Meanwhile, China and New Zealand generated 1,200 and 1,110 metric

tons

of

this

commodity, respectively. India made 7,500 metric

tons

of butter

this

year, after which the figures for the

EU

and the United States were seen at 2,040 and 810 metric

tons

in that order.