Cattle meat consumption per capita fell 4.33% to 8.18 kg in El Salvador in 2020, according to Faostat.
Historically, cattle meat consumption per capita in El Salvador reached an all time high of 8.76 kg in 2010 and an all time low of 5.61 kg in 2013. When compared to El Salvador's main peers, cattle meat consumption per capita in Costa Rica amounted to 11.4 kg, 11.7 kg in Guatemala, 6.03 kg in Honduras and 2.16 kg in Nicaragua in 2020.
El Salvador has been ranked 79th within the group of 165 countries we follow in terms of cattle meat consumption per capita, 6 places below the position seen 10 years ago.
| Cattle Meat Consumption Per Capita | Unit | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
| Belize | kg | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 4.42 | 4.06 | 3.41 | 3.26 | 4.03 | ||||||
| Costa Rica | kg | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 13.3 | 12.8 | 12.1 | 12.2 | 12.8 | ||||||
| El Salvador | kg | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 5.62 | 5.64 | 5.82 | 6.31 | 6.79 | ||||||
| Guatemala | kg | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 11.4 | 12.0 | 12.0 | 11.5 | 11.1 | ||||||
| Honduras | kg | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 6.78 | 7.11 | 7.19 | 6.86 | 6.58 | ||||||
| Mexico | kg | 15.4 | 14.9 | 14.8 | 15.0 | 15.1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Nicaragua | kg | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 4.63 | 3.20 | 1.51 | 3.59 | 1.67 | ||||||
| Panama | kg | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 21.0 | 19.6 | 18.1 | 16.6 | 16.2 | ||||||
| USA | kg | 37.4 | 35.2 | 36.1 | 37.1 | 37.2 |
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