Population growth and urbanization increase the demand for milk

The global demographic changes also bring new challenges to the dairy industry. The annual milk consumption of the world’s population increases by about 2.4 percent, while its volume is rising to an unprecedented height, expected to reach 213 billion lite

According to the survey of Tetra Pak on milk consumption involving 100 countries; while in Western Europe and in North America, the level of milk consumption is stagnating at a high level, in India and China it is growing rapidly, World’s annual milk consumption was 184 billion liters in 2000, now it is 203 billion liters in 2010. It is a nearly a 10 percent increase in ten years – reports Világgazdaság Online.