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Poultry Meat Production

Based on a comparison of 168 countries in 2018, USA ranked the highest in poultry meat production with 22,298 kt followed by China and Brazil. On the other end of the scale was Mongolia with 0.243 kt, Equatorial Guinea with 0.257 kt and Luxembourg with 0.286 kt.

Total poultry meat production reached 127,313 kt in 2018 in the World according to Faostat. This is 3.23% more than in the previous year and 27.2% more than 10 years ago.

Historically, total poultry meat production reached an all time high of 127,313 kt in 2018 and an all time low of 8,950 kt in 1961. The average annual growth amounted to 4.77% since 1961.

The top ranked country, USA, accounted for 17.5 % of poultry meat production in the world. The top 3 countries hold a 44.9 % share while the ten largest countries some 61.3% 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																																	24.8	26.4	22.1	24.0	24.6
Albania	kt																																	16.0	17.0	12.8	12.9	12.7
Algeria	kt																																	289	288	286	291	300
Angola	kt																																	25.7	29.9	25.9	27.1	27.6
Argentina	kt																																	1,949	1,968	1,981	2,138	2,100
Armenia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					8.30	8.20	8.80	9.50	9.70
Australia	kt																																	1,085	1,103	1,142	1,155	1,233
Austria	kt																																	134	130	135	137	147
Azerbaijan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					86.5	94.4	99.4	97.2	95.5
Bahamas	kt																																	6.60	6.72	6.64	7.04	7.17
Bahrain	kt																																	6.45	6.45	6.54	6.66	6.64
Bangladesh	kt																																	217	220	229	236	240
Belarus	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					353	385	414	444	458
Belgium	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...													411	389	433	453	461
Belize	kt																																	14.4	16.3	17.7	18.6	19.1
Benin	kt																																	12.1	12.4	12.8	13.2	13.7
Bhutan	kt																																	0.453	0.455	0.422	1.06	1.21
Bolivia	kt																																	364	369	374	507	467
Bosnia and Herzegovina	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					53.4	41.5	43.4	48.7	57.4
Botswana	kt																																	6.50	7.78	6.83	3.20	4.00
Brazil	kt																																	12,053	12,492	12,982	13,637	13,778
Brunei	kt																																	24.2	26.8	24.3	23.6	24.5
Bulgaria	kt																																	108	98.4	102	106	109
Burkina Faso	kt																																	38.8	38.2	37.6	38.2	46.0
Burundi	kt																																	6.30	6.30	6.48	6.39	6.30
Cambodia	kt																																	28.2	26.9	25.9	26.4	26.7
Cameroon	kt																																	70.4	72.0	75.1	76.2	75.9
Canada	kt																																	1,234	1,258	1,276	1,318	1,372
Central African Republic	kt																																	6.00	6.00	5.99	6.00	6.54
Chad	kt																																	6.08	6.11	6.30	6.12	6.14
Chile	kt																																	669	676	664	711	742
China	kt																																	18,033	18,265	17,502	17,250	18,335
Colombia	kt																																	1,112	1,274	1,359	1,424	1,479
Comoros	kt																																	0.576	0.576	0.562	0.577	0.597
Congo	kt																																	6.60	6.70	6.78	6.76	6.92
Costa Rica	kt																																	113	120	124	125	128
Croatia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					64.9	59.5	60.3	64.6	65.7
Cuba	kt																																	35.0	32.4	33.0	33.5	30.6
Cyprus	kt																																	25.6	22.3	21.9	24.2	24.3
Czech Republic	kt																																	157	153	154	155	161
Dem. People's Republic of Korea	kt																																	43.8	43.8	39.8	41.9	43.1
Dem. Republic of the Congo	kt																																	10.8	10.8	10.8	10.9	10.4
Denmark	kt																																	188	168	160	145	154
Dominican Republic	kt																																	263	284	307	316	326
East Timor	kt																																	0.800	0.800	0.857	0.927	0.922
Ecuador	kt																																	331	341	344	340	338
Egypt	kt																																	937	1,074	1,165	1,167	1,138
El Salvador	kt																																	110	114	118	127	136
Equatorial Guinea	kt																																	0.243	0.244	0.246	0.246	0.252
Eritrea	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																				1.74	1.79	1.84	1.67	1.57
Estonia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					16.5	18.1	19.4	19.7	19.7
Ethiopia	kt																																	60.5	61.8	68.4	72.7	71.6
European Union	kt																																	13,092	13,315	12,871	...	...	...	...
Fiji	kt																																	26.1	17.5	23.3	23.8	15.6
Finland	kt																																	107	111	113	117	125
France	kt																																	1,767	1,743	1,808	1,805	1,784
Gabon	kt																																	3.84	3.92	3.92	3.96	3.89
Gambia	kt																																	1.50	1.55	1.57	1.58	1.61
Georgia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					11.7	10.1	14.6	18.4	22.9
Germany	kt																																	1,428	1,457	1,550	1,544	1,527
Ghana	kt																																	46.3	51.0	54.8	57.3	57.3
Greece	kt																																	118	180	190	254	257
Guatemala	kt																																	190	192	215	230	234
Guinea	kt																																	9.88	13.7	12.7	11.1	12.0
Guinea Bissau	kt																																	2.20	2.44	2.51	2.60	2.53
Guyana	kt																																	30.4	29.3	28.4	30.7	32.2
Haiti	kt																																	8.53	8.53	8.73	8.62	8.76
Honduras	kt																																	155	151	156	175	187
Hong Kong	kt																																	0.425	0.441	0.441	...	...	...	...
Hungary	kt																																	428	405	442	490	515
Iceland	kt																																	7.84	7.88	8.05	8.33	9.01
India	kt																																	2,713	2,879	3,074	3,292	3,336
Indonesia	kt																																	1,768	1,872	1,972	2,066	2,343
Iraq	kt																																	87.9	101	70.0	86.0	87.0
Iran	kt																																	1,883	1,979	2,044	2,038	2,110
Ireland	kt																																	120	119	121	122	124
Israel	kt																																	569	522	564	602	641
Italy	kt																																	1,244	1,216	1,230	1,282	1,354
Ivory Coast	kt																																	42.0	47.6	41.1	42.8	44.6
Jamaica	kt																																	102	104	110	113	126
Japan	kt																																	1,457	2,079	2,128	2,132	2,172
Jordan	kt																																	191	183	192	182	192
Kazakhstan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					123	130	126	137	143
Kenya	kt																																	21.7	23.8	22.3	26.0	26.5
Kuwait	kt																																	49.1	46.2	46.2	53.3	53.3
Kyrgyzstan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					6.09	6.20	5.81	8.00	7.90
Laos	kt																																	27.0	28.6	30.0	31.7	30.1
Latvia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					24.6	26.8	28.7	29.5	30.0
Lebanon	kt																																	100	85.1	91.1	101	125
Lesotho	kt																																	1.60	1.60	1.68	1.76	1.84
Liberia	kt																																	11.9	12.4	12.5	12.6	13.8
Libya	kt																																	124	125	121	121	127
Lithuania	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					85.3	93.0	99.6	111	112
Luxembourg	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...													0.239	0.244	0.239	0.255	0.265
Macao	kt																																	1.16	1.17	1.11	...	...	...	...
Macedonia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					1.95	1.80	2.01	1.73	1.51
Madagascar	kt																																	72.5	72.0	72.6	82.3	82.6
Malawi	kt																																	74.4	77.7	86.0	99.0	75.0
Malaysia	kt																																	1,374	1,458	1,573	1,633	1,755
Mali	kt																																	42.0	44.1	38.3	43.8	60.0
Malta	kt																																	4.42	4.31	4.06	4.06	3.97
Mauritania	kt																																	4.56	4.64	4.64	3.83	4.66
Mauritius	kt																																	47.5	46.9	47.6	46.5	45.9
Mexico	kt																																	2,833	2,846	2,920	3,002	3,116
Moldova	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					39.1	43.4	47.1	47.5	52.9
Mongolia	kt																																	0.286	0.123	0.234	0.237	0.214
Montenegro	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...							3.50	3.35	3.40	3.40	3.60
Morocco	kt																																	643	615	639	715	665
Mozambique	kt																																	55.1	58.0	66.1	77.6	78.2
Myanmar	kt																																	1,262	1,379	1,526	1,648	1,663
Namibia	kt																																	16.5	16.7	16.3	13.6	14.8
Nepal	kt																																	40.6	43.0	43.4	45.7	55.3
Netherlands	kt																																	966	1,000	1,022	1,060	1,102
New Zealand	kt																																	169	170	190	193	213
Nicaragua	kt																																	87.5	123	126	129	137
Niger	kt																																	16.8	17.2	17.3	17.6	18.1
Nigeria	kt																																	229	193	191	198	203
Norway	kt																																	91.2	104	106	92.5	98.3
Oman	kt																																	6.12	6.14	6.22	6.27	6.44
Pakistan	kt																																	839	912	992	1,079	1,175
Palestine	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																			52.0	52.0	52.0	...	...	...	...
Panama	kt																																	145	156	169	180	192
Papua New Guinea	kt																																	6.16	6.32	6.30	6.35	6.51
Paraguay	kt																																	41.0	42.5	42.2	42.9	43.5
Peru	kt																																	1,211	1,254	1,317	1,330	1,405
Philippines	kt																																	1,059	1,120	1,152	1,222	1,263
Poland	kt																																	1,587	1,705	1,666	1,681	1,718
Portugal	kt																																	314	314	314	329	343
Puerto Rico	kt																																	58.0	58.0	58.0	...	...	...	...
Qatar	kt																																	9.80	8.12	8.01	8.53	9.55
Romania	kt																																	352	323	397	411	419
Russia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					3,299	3,457	3,770	4,088	4,232
Rwanda	kt																																	14.4	15.7	16.3	15.5	15.8
Saudi Arabia	kt																																	451	570	508	518	554
Senegal	kt																																	56.7	65.0	65.9	60.1	67.7
Serbia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...							94.9	83.8	85.6	76.2	78.6
Seychelles	kt																																	0.356	0.227	0.317	0.503	0.472
Sierra Leone	kt																																	15.6	16.4	18.3	16.6	16.6
Singapore	kt																																	97.0	99.0	95.0	83.3	102
Slovakia	kt																																	63.6	64.0	58.4	57.8	65.9
Slovenia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					59.3	57.0	59.5	58.5	63.6
Somalia	kt																																	3.60	3.60	3.75	3.83	3.83
South Africa	kt																																	1,496	1,679	1,724	1,734	1,685
South Korea	kt																																	696	710	792	870	888
South Sudan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	20.0	20.0	20.0	20.0	20.0
Spain	kt																																	1,368	1,278	1,368	1,374	1,518
Sri Lanka	kt																																	127	135	144	164	183
Sudan	kt																																...	45.0	55.0	58.0	60.0	65.0
Suriname	kt																																	11.4	8.43	8.90	9.48	7.91
Swaziland	kt																																	5.80	5.85	5.88	5.82	6.03
Sweden	kt																																	113	120	139	149	158
Switzerland	kt																																	76.1	79.8	84.5	87.1	91.1
Syria	kt																																	140	110	101	117	127
Taiwan	kt																																	632	641	656	...	...	...	...
Tajikistan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					7.50	1.40	1.50	1.60	1.80
Tanzania	kt																																	85.8	88.7	96.6	101	103
Thailand	kt																																	1,597	1,668	1,814	1,768	1,783
Togo	kt																																	31.2	32.0	32.5	34.2	37.7
Trinidad and Tobago	kt																																	65.9	66.6	67.0	48.6	60.7
Tunisia	kt																																	188	203	215	220	213
Turkey	kt																																	1,768	1,800	1,946	1,965	1,928
Turkmenistan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					21.0	21.3	20.4	20.4	21.5
Uganda	kt																																	63.0	64.5	59.4	62.5	69.1
Ukraine	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					1,103	1,196	1,194	1,173	1,193
United Arab Emirates	kt																																	42.0	43.2	44.9	46.4	46.9
United Kingdom	kt																																	1,609	1,662	1,648	1,733	1,805
USA	kt																																	19,796	20,085	20,399	21,017	21,483
Uruguay	kt																																	85.2	44.8	72.0	36.8	35.8
Uzbekistan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					42.2	45.0	48.1	52.0	55.7
Venezuela	kt																																	984	915	891	816	599
Vietnam	kt																																	626	678	731	796	842
Yemen	kt																																	156	166	182	177	170
Zambia	kt																																	44.0	46.0	45.7	46.1	48.1
Zimbabwe	kt																																	64.0	64.0	57.7	61.1	66.9
World	kt																																	106,999	110,439	113,056	116,275	119,723

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