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Cattle Meat Production

Source: Faostat

Last Updated: Mar 17, 2020

Based on a comparison of 169 countries in 2018, USA ranked the highest in cattle meat production with 12,219 kt followed by Brazil and China. On the other end of the scale was Seychelles with 0.011 kt, Bahamas with 0.017 kt and Singapore with 0.047 kt.

Total cattle meat production reached 67,363 kt in 2018 in the World according to Faostat. This is 2.88% more than in the previous year and 7.57% more than 10 years ago.

Historically, total cattle meat production reached an all time high of 67,363 kt in 2018 and an all time low of 27,685 kt in 1961. The average annual growth amounted to 1.57% since 1961.

The top ranked country, USA, accounted for 18.1 % of cattle meat production in the world. The top 3 countries hold a 41.4 % share while the ten largest countries some 60.2% in 2018.

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Country	Unit	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Afghanistan	kt																																	139	134	137	136	135
Albania	kt																																	41.5	41.8	38.1	38.6	38.9
Algeria	kt																																	136	140	146	155	164
Angola	kt																																	102	105	107	107	105
Argentina	kt																																	2,596	2,822	2,674	2,727	2,644
Armenia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					47.6	53.6	59.0	63.6	68.1
Australia	kt																																	2,152	2,359	2,595	2,662	2,316
Austria	kt																																	222	229	223	230	228
Azerbaijan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					118	121	122	130	131
Bahamas	kt																																	0.019	0.019	0.018	0.018	0.017
Bahrain	kt																																	1.02	1.03	1.06	0.986	0.954
Bangladesh	kt																																	191	192	193	195	196
Belarus	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					293	316	296	339	327
Belgium	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...													262	250	258	268	278
Belize	kt																																	1.67	1.85	1.55	1.60	1.45
Benin	kt																																	35.9	36.8	37.7	38.8	39.8
Bhutan	kt																																	5.28	5.32	5.02	5.05	5.05
Bolivia	kt																																	213	215	225	243	252
Bosnia and Herzegovina	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					22.9	16.4	11.4	22.8	16.0
Botswana	kt																																	47.0	36.3	25.0	28.0	30.0
Brazil	kt																																	9,307	9,675	9,723	9,425	9,284
Brunei	kt																																	0.934	0.560	0.817	0.482	0.775
Bulgaria	kt																																	20.4	19.1	17.2	18.5	17.5
Burkina Faso	kt																																	128	131	115	95.0	110
Burundi	kt																																	12.1	7.41	10.2	11.3	9.29
Cambodia	kt																																	63.6	60.5	57.3	58.7	57.5
Cameroon	kt																																	87.5	92.2	97.4	96.5	88.9
Canada	kt																																	1,026	1,024	1,069	1,018	1,112
Central African Republic	kt																																	90.0	91.9	93.5	94.8	96.2
Chad	kt																																	329	346	365	384	398
Chile	kt																																	197	206	224	225	215
China	kt																																	5,533	5,518	5,541	5,552	5,552
Colombia	kt																																	854	856	837	854	797
Comoros	kt																																	1.27	1.27	1.26	1.27	1.28
Congo	kt																																	6.55	6.15	6.54	6.57	6.91
Costa Rica	kt																																	87.5	85.0	88.2	82.0	73.0
Croatia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					47.1	47.4	44.3	42.0	44.7
Cuba	kt																																	67.1	66.9	71.4	75.6	83.8
Cyprus	kt																																	5.31	4.56	4.57	4.95	4.95
Czech Republic	kt																																	66.1	65.3	66.2	69.0	72.8
Dem. People's Republic of Korea	kt																																	22.0	22.0	21.9	21.8	21.8
Dem. Republic of the Congo	kt																																	14.2	15.1	15.1	16.3	16.9
Denmark	kt																																	127	128	126	120	129
Djibouti	kt																																	5.91	5.92	6.05	6.19	6.31
Dominican Republic	kt																																	95.9	101	78.7	95.3	92.6
East Timor	kt																																	1.11	1.13	1.13	1.13	1.13
Ecuador	kt																																	265	261	233	214	213
Egypt	kt																																	465	435	421	430	451
El Salvador	kt																																	26.0	18.4	18.6	18.6	18.7
Equatorial Guinea	kt																																	0.048	0.050	0.050	0.050	0.050
Eritrea	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																				24.0	22.6	23.6	23.5	23.6
Estonia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					12.3	11.5	9.80	12.6	14.8
Ethiopia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																				338	341	385	373	386
European Union	kt																																	7,695	7,389	7,959	...	...	...	...
Fiji	kt																																	1.61	2.27	2.80	3.59	2.03
Finland	kt																																	81.2	81.2	83.1	86.5	86.7
France	kt																																	1,494	1,400	1,411	1,448	1,466
Gabon	kt																																	1.16	1.16	1.18	1.19	1.15
Gambia	kt																																	3.84	3.72	4.55	4.70	4.17
Georgia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					16.2	20.2	22.8	24.4	21.5
Germany	kt																																	1,146	1,117	1,143	1,132	1,155
Ghana	kt																																	21.2	21.9	22.8	23.8	23.8
Greece	kt																																	69.5	68.7	49.2	39.2	39.2
Guatemala	kt																																	136	145	175	181	186
Guinea	kt																																	68.5	72.3	78.0	80.0	80.0
Guinea Bissau	kt																																	6.71	6.72	6.84	6.96	7.16
Guyana	kt																																	1.64	2.26	2.67	2.28	2.04
Haiti	kt																																	46.5	46.5	46.5	47.3	48.1
Honduras	kt																																	62.3	63.0	63.3	63.7	64.7
Hong Kong	kt																																	7.80	7.90	8.27	...	...	...	...
Hungary	kt																																	25.4	23.5	24.1	27.3	28.9
Iceland	kt																																	4.11	4.08	3.50	3.61	4.39
India	kt																																	981	971	961	951	956
Indonesia	kt																																	509	505	498	507	518
Iraq	kt																																	50.3	51.3	53.6	51.7	52.2
Iran	kt																																	352	389	406	322	397
Ireland	kt																																	495	518	582	564	588
Israel	kt																																	117	132	122	132	126
Italy	kt																																	958	842	695	772	791
Ivory Coast	kt																																	31.1	31.8	30.3	31.4	32.7
Jamaica	kt																																	5.80	5.60	6.20	7.52	7.71
Japan	kt																																	519	508	502	481	464
Jordan	kt																																	19.6	23.5	19.5	27.5	29.6
Kazakhstan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					374	383	405	417	431
Kenya	kt																																	411	425	443	487	529
Kuwait	kt																																	1.43	1.35	1.89	1.88	1.40
Kyrgyzstan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					97.1	98.6	102	99.1	103
Laos	kt																																	29.5	29.9	31.1	32.3	33.8
Latvia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					17.3	16.7	17.7	18.8	19.5
Lebanon	kt																																	44.1	47.5	45.6	46.2	45.7
Lesotho	kt																																	12.6	13.5	11.4	11.0	11.3
Liberia	kt																																	1.14	1.16	1.22	1.25	1.23
Libya	kt																																	8.90	8.90	9.03	9.18	9.37
Liechtenstein	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					40.9	37.7	42.2	...	...	...	...
Lithuania	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					40.9	37.7	40.2	45.1	43.3
Luxembourg	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...													8.59	8.06	8.59	9.18	9.53
Macao	kt																																	0.788	0.800	0.868	...	...	...	...
Macedonia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					4.98	5.49	5.52	4.88	3.96
Madagascar	kt																																	172	172	172	175	176
Malawi	kt																																	35.7	38.4	39.5	42.4	41.6
Malaysia	kt																																	42.3	44.0	45.9	43.7	41.1
Mali	kt																																	169	160	169	160	176
Malta	kt																																	1.11	1.13	1.13	1.03	1.15
Mauritania	kt																																	28.2	29.4	29.0	30.3	30.6
Mauritius	kt																																	2.41	2.11	2.11	2.21	1.76
Mexico	kt																																	1,821	1,807	1,827	1,845	1,879
Moldova	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					9.51	8.29	8.22	8.42	9.51
Mongolia	kt																																	59.7	56.4	54.9	93.3	92.4
Montenegro	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...							4.39	4.19	3.83	3.21	5.42
Morocco	kt																																	204	254	259	246	258
Mozambique	kt																																	11.9	10.8	11.9	12.3	15.5
Myanmar	kt																																	273	299	325	357	402
Namibia	kt																																	35.8	35.5	38.5	35.8	34.5
Nepal	kt																																	51.4	51.9	51.9	51.6	52.1
Netherlands	kt																																	374	379	376	383	416
New Zealand	kt																																	607	627	626	676	673
Nicaragua	kt																																	115	121	122	115	114
Niger	kt																																	59.1	41.9	54.4	58.9	58.9
Nigeria	kt																																	288	378	381	384	379
Norway	kt																																	78.0	83.7	78.7	79.7	81.7
Oman	kt																																	15.3	20.8	17.9	13.9	14.2
Pakistan	kt																																	789	822	850	882	915
Palestine	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																			8.10	7.50	6.70	...	...	...	...
Panama	kt																																	91.7	84.9	82.9	80.9	71.1
Papua New Guinea	kt																																	3.30	3.27	3.25	3.24	3.25
Paraguay	kt																																	302	384	467	449	468
Peru	kt																																	187	193	196	196	193
Philippines	kt																																	195	198	201	206	210
Poland	kt																																	383	374	446	487	512
Portugal	kt																																	93.0	84.0	79.8	88.6	90.7
Puerto Rico	kt																																	10.3	10.3	10.3	...	...	...	...
Qatar	kt																																	0.480	0.495	0.481	0.647	0.541
Romania	kt																																	114	96.2	108	119	116
Russia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					1,642	1,633	1,654	1,649	1,589
Rwanda	kt																																	29.0	29.8	32.2	37.1	31.6
Saudi Arabia	kt																																	51.0	52.0	37.9	40.8	41.2
Senegal	kt																																	76.9	79.5	74.5	83.8	78.4
Serbia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...							78.5	68.5	73.5	66.0	71.0
Seychelles	kt																																	0.005	0.010	0.014	0.010	0.011
Sierra Leone	kt																																	11.5	12.3	13.3	13.2	13.4
Singapore	kt																																	0.050	0.050	0.051	0.047	0.046
Slovakia	kt																																	13.2	11.7	11.6	10.7	10.3
Slovenia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					33.1	32.1	31.6	33.6	35.7
Somalia	kt																																	59.8	60.5	60.4	60.4	60.0
South Africa	kt																																	875	953	1,001	1,073	1,090
South Korea	kt																																	312	344	335	323	277
South Sudan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	200	213	225	213	218
Spain	kt																																	591	581	585	626	637
Sri Lanka	kt																																	23.7	23.2	20.6	22.8	22.9
Sudan	kt																																	358	358	365	367	372
Suriname	kt																																	1.85	1.67	1.66	1.47	1.93
Swaziland	kt																																	17.0	17.1	16.6	16.6	16.5
Sweden	kt																																	125	126	132	144	131
Switzerland	kt																																	145	144	144	142	144
Syria	kt																																	68.2	69.9	64.8	63.3	72.2
Taiwan	kt																																	5.76	6.00	5.81	...	...	...	...
Tajikistan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					30.7	38.5	44.2	37.8	40.2
Tanzania	kt																																	290	300	309	319	320
Thailand	kt																																	141	136	134	139	125
Togo	kt																																	9.63	9.81	10.9	10.2	10.4
Trinidad and Tobago	kt																																	0.993	1.01	1.04	1.03	1.03
Tunisia	kt																																	54.6	56.0	58.0	58.3	59.3
Turkey	kt																																	799	869	882	1,015	1,059
Turkmenistan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					145	142	143	143	143
Uganda	kt																																	191	199	205	214	224
Ukraine	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					389	428	413	384	376
United Arab Emirates	kt																																	15.8	16.0	16.7	16.2	16.3
United Kingdom	kt																																	885	847	877	885	915
USA	kt																																	11,916	11,789	11,698	10,778	11,471
Uruguay	kt																																	485	492	518	537	565
Uzbekistan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					708	750	800	850	829
Venezuela	kt																																	585	577	524	434	432
Vietnam	kt																																	294	285	293	300	309
Yemen	kt																																	111	112	116	115	111
Zambia	kt																																	161	198	208	161	159
Zimbabwe	kt																																	122	123	97.9	114	111
World	kt																																	62,939	63,969	64,471	63,922	64,575

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