Local cows produce the highest amounts of milk per animal in the world, with an average of 10,208 kilograms (around 10,000 liters) of dairy in 2009, according to data published in 2011 by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, outperforming cows in the US ( 9331 kilograms per cow), Japan (7,497), the European Union (6,139) and Australia (5,601).