I like cheese and data analysis so I made this.

I went with a purchasing power adjusted imports value because I was interested in seeing what the differences in import values are taking into account the widely varying prices across the world. In other words, placing two people from e.g. Guatemala and Germany on equal footing, who imports more cheese? (it's Germany)

Data sources and tools:

• Imports: Comtrade, noting that I used all 6-digit codes for cheese products in the Harmonised System (HS). They are 040610, 040620, 040630, 040640, and 040690.
• Population: World Bank Open Data
• I adjusted imports to account for purchasing power parity based on CEPII's GDP and GDP PPP data.
• Tools: R – ggplot wrapped in plotly

Luxembourg importing the big cheese.

They have a lot of money to do it! And they don't really produce much themselves as far as I'm aware

Surprised South Africa is so low, although we have a saying 'cheese-boy' meaning a rich kid, because cheese is so expensive.

Do you produce a lot yourself maybe? What cheeses are you hiding over there??

As far as I know, we do produce a lot of our own cheeses. Our Brie and Camembert are fantastic, personal experience.

Isn't Aruba populated by Europeans? Dutch or something? That would explain that

actually it is just all the kochkaas

Spot on

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