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 Human consumption of milk and dairy products (t)
Characteristic Description
Name Human consumption of milk and dairy products (t) by Type of milk and dairy products; Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Animal products supply balance sheet
First available period 1983
Last available period 2024
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence (Portugal)
  • Type of milk and dairy products
Concepts
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • RESIDENT POPULATION:  The persons who regardless of the fact that at the moment of observation ' 0:00 a.m. of the reference day ' are present or absent in a given housing unit, this unit being where they live during most of the year with their family, or where they have all or most of their belongings.
  • HUMAN CONSUMPTION:  Use that corresponds to the quantities of products consumed by the resident population in the form of primary products consumed in this state or in the form of industrialised products converted to primary products in the reference period.
Formule (Usable production+Imports)-Exports-Animal feed-Industrial uses-Processing
Measure unit (symbol) Tonne (t)
Power of 10  3
Observations
Last update date 12/07/2025


information presented in 4/11/2025