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Total Meat Production

Based on a comparison of 170 countries in 2018, China ranked the highest in meat production with 86,463 kt followed by USA and Brazil. On the other end of the scale was Equatorial Guinea with 0.626 kt, Maldives with 0.870 kt and Seychelles with 1.04 kt.

Total meat production reached 342,422 kt in 2018 in the World according to Faostat. This is 2.21% more than in the previous year and 17.8% more than 10 years ago.

Historically, total meat production reached an all time high of 342,422 kt in 2018 and an all time low of 71,362 kt in 1961. The average annual growth amounted to 2.79% since 1961.

The top ranked country, China, accounted for 25.3 % of meat production in the world. The top 3 countries hold a 47.5 % share while the ten largest countries some 62.7% 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																																	331	322	323	326	324
Albania	kt																																	93.9	95.7	87.6	89.3	89.5
Algeria	kt																																	717	740	768	791	819
Angola	kt																																	243	261	250	261	263
Argentina	kt																																	5,018	5,344	5,240	5,490	5,398
Armenia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					73.9	83.4	93.1	100	106
Australia	kt																																	4,200	4,542	4,881	4,969	4,699
Austria	kt																																	901	904	900	910	905
Azerbaijan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					276	287	291	299	302
Bahamas	kt																																	7.06	7.18	7.09	7.49	7.63
Bahrain	kt																																	24.7	24.7	24.6	24.6	24.3
Bangladesh	kt																																	634	643	657	666	673
Belarus	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					1,092	1,172	1,073	1,148	1,173
Belgium	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...													1,788	1,775	1,815	1,851	1,806
Belize	kt																																	17.5	19.5	20.7	21.9	22.3
Benin	kt																																	69.7	71.3	73.4	75.5	77.6
Bhutan	kt																																	6.95	6.60	6.49	7.03	7.23
Bolivia	kt																																	702	711	727	883	863
Bosnia and Herzegovina	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					94.3	72.4	66.0	81.5	83.2
Botswana	kt																																	87.2	77.2	66.6	66.9	68.0
Brazil	kt																																	24,649	25,425	26,039	26,642	26,922
Brunei	kt																																	25.3	27.6	25.3	24.3	25.5
Bulgaria	kt																																	223	208	205	210	217
Burkina Faso	kt																																	272	276	260	235	249
Burundi	kt																																	31.5	24.2	27.0	28.5	26.0
Cambodia	kt																																	200	199	201	201	201
Cameroon	kt																																	281	300	303	305	305
Canada	kt																																	4,311	4,309	4,355	4,445	4,615
Central African Republic	kt																																	168	172	176	176	183
Chad	kt																																	534	565	601	635	665
Chile	kt																																	1,475	1,454	1,431	1,482	1,499
China	kt																																	83,310	85,105	86,352	86,011	85,116
Colombia	kt																																	2,312	2,389	2,476	2,598	2,639
Comoros	kt																																	2.32	2.32	2.30	2.33	2.36
Congo	kt																																	60.2	56.7	55.8	64.2	67.6
Costa Rica	kt																																	255	259	267	264	262
Croatia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					248	223	210	210	217
Cuba	kt																																	283	307	315	326	351
Cyprus	kt																																	89.7	82.1	75.4	79.5	79.2
Czech Republic	kt																																	516	505	510	505	507
Dem. People's Republic of Korea	kt																																	343	343	331	339	348
Dem. Republic of the Congo	kt																																	234	235	236	241	244
Denmark	kt																																	1,989	1,891	1,885	1,872	1,868
Djibouti	kt																																	11.3	11.2	11.3	11.5	11.6
Dominican Republic	kt																																	439	466	461	488	496
East Timor	kt																																	34.2	31.9	31.3	36.1	36.4
Ecuador	kt																																	817	838	801	781	781
Egypt	kt																																	2,018	2,140	2,213	2,246	2,209
El Salvador	kt																																	145	140	145	153	162
Equatorial Guinea	kt																																	0.591	0.610	0.606	0.611	0.618
Eritrea	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					40.8	39.6	40.7	40.8	41.1
Estonia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					78.2	79.7	71.2	83.0	78.0
Ethiopia	kt																																	671	679	750	741	758
European Union	kt																																	44,993	44,355	45,189	...	...	...	...
Fiji	kt																																	32.0	24.2	30.4	31.7	22.0
Finland	kt																																	386	391	387	400	407
France	kt																																	5,676	5,529	5,598	5,654	5,664
Gabon	kt																																	37.6	38.4	38.9	39.1	39.3
Gambia	kt																																	8.33	8.12	9.13	9.59	9.00
Georgia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					42.6	48.4	59.2	66.7	65.5
Germany	kt																																	8,192	8,220	8,351	8,367	8,400
Ghana	kt																																	245	249	255	270	272
Greece	kt																																	436	491	429	462	463
Guatemala	kt																																	392	403	458	481	489
Guinea	kt																																	104	112	118	119	122
Guinea Bissau	kt																																	26.5	27.8	27.1	27.3	27.4
Guyana	kt																																	33.1	33.0	32.3	34.1	35.3
Haiti	kt																																	105	105	106	107	109
Honduras	kt																																	231	228	233	252	264
Hong Kong	kt																																	166	167	163	...	...	...	...
Hungary	kt																																	863	811	895	989	1,016
Iceland	kt																																	32.1	32.5	32.3	32.9	34.0
India	kt																																	6,559	6,740	6,920	7,117	7,183
Indonesia	kt																																	2,658	2,823	2,919	3,050	3,349
Iraq	kt																																	204	206	185	201	203
Iran	kt																																	2,637	2,741	2,835	2,811	2,907
Ireland	kt																																	917	941	1,021	1,027	1,063
Israel	kt																																	719	685	717	764	796
Italy	kt																																	4,024	3,857	3,387	3,692	3,839
Ivory Coast	kt																																	262	271	267	272	278
Jamaica	kt																																	119	120	126	128	144
Japan	kt																																	3,281	3,905	3,902	3,875	3,921
Jordan	kt																																	235	226	234	232	248
Kazakhstan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					845	865	892	922	951
Kenya	kt																																	636	662	684	736	751
Kuwait	kt																																	89.8	86.8	88.0	103	97.3
Kyrgyzstan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					192	195	212	218	223
Laos	kt																																	138	144	150	158	154
Latvia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					78.8	80.6	84.5	85.5	87.2
Lebanon	kt																																	155	145	149	159	181
Lesotho	kt																																	29.5	30.4	28.1	29.5	29.6
Liberia	kt																																	33.3	33.0	33.1	33.5	37.0
Libya	kt																																	183	185	181	180	189
Lithuania	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					207	219	227	242	231
Luxembourg	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...													19.9	19.8	21.5	22.4	24.3
Macao	kt																																	12.7	12.7	12.5	...	...	...	...
Macedonia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					23.1	20.9	22.1	21.4	22.0
Madagascar	kt																																	324	324	324	342	344
Malawi	kt																																	207	239	265	310	326
Malaysia	kt																																	1,649	1,732	1,848	1,911	2,004
Maldives	kt																																	0.840	0.840	0.841	0.847	0.859
Mali	kt																																	385	381	379	388	433
Malta	kt																																	13.2	13.5	13.4	12.6	12.2
Mauritania	kt																																	107	110	109	118	115
Mauritius	kt																																	51.5	50.5	51.2	50.1	49.0
Mexico	kt																																	6,079	6,122	6,223	6,357	6,559
Moldova	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					116	119	119	131	138
Mongolia	kt																																	221	250	244	374	335
Montenegro	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...							12.8	9.88	11.0	11.0	14.5
Morocco	kt																																	1,090	1,084	1,117	1,220	1,188
Mozambique	kt																																	212	222	223	240	246
Myanmar	kt																																	2,303	2,520	2,794	3,001	3,075
Namibia	kt																																	79.8	80.6	79.8	76.3	75.9
Nepal	kt																																	339	347	350	355	374
Netherlands	kt																																	2,686	2,700	2,784	2,914	2,986
New Zealand	kt																																	1,312	1,355	1,381	1,429	1,436
Nicaragua	kt																																	214	256	261	257	265
Niger	kt																																	169	149	156	175	177
Nigeria	kt																																	1,271	1,365	1,389	1,432	1,443
Norway	kt																																	333	349	347	341	353
Oman	kt																																	65.8	87.6	81.3	71.4	76.1
Pakistan	kt																																	2,901	3,049	3,182	3,335	3,503
Panama	kt																																	271	275	287	297	302
Papua New Guinea	kt																																	467	473	480	488	491
Paraguay	kt																																	515	607	694	680	706
Peru	kt																																	1,603	1,657	1,731	1,749	1,830
Philippines	kt																																	3,077	3,169	3,216	3,376	3,513
Poland	kt																																	3,846	3,880	4,000	4,167	4,261
Portugal	kt																																	815	789	791	842	856
Puerto Rico	kt																																	81.0	81.0	80.7	...	...	...	...
Qatar	kt																																	23.3	22.2	22.0	22.6	23.7
Romania	kt																																	998	903	1,054	1,091	1,134
Russia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					8,090	8,544	9,070	9,565	9,853
Rwanda	kt																																	91.1	95.7	101	99.0	96.6
Saudi Arabia	kt																																	673	798	705	721	757
Senegal	kt																																	206	219	220	215	223
Serbia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...							493	489	510	463	489
Seychelles	kt																																	0.873	0.778	0.812	0.992	0.999
Sierra Leone	kt																																	44.2	46.3	49.5	47.5	47.4
Singapore	kt																																	117	118	115	105	123
Slovakia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																				154	147	139	127	138
Slovenia	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					130	121	123	121	132
Somalia	kt																																	195	195	195	195	193
South Africa	kt																																	2,792	3,081	3,206	3,271	3,244
South Korea	kt																																	2,101	2,312	2,334	2,417	2,438
South Sudan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	386	403	420	411	419
Spain	kt																																	5,647	5,503	5,717	6,057	6,546
Sri Lanka	kt																																	159	167	171	194	213
Sudan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	904	919	932	939	959
Suriname	kt																																	15.1	12.0	12.8	13.2	12.4
Swaziland	kt																																	26.4	26.6	26.1	26.0	26.1
Sweden	kt																																	496	505	530	550	546
Switzerland	kt																																	473	468	480	479	483
Syria	kt																																	396	359	343	356	384
Taiwan	kt																																	1,519	1,538	1,537	...	...	...	...
Tajikistan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					81.3	88.3	101	99.3	103
Tanzania	kt																																	472	489	507	521	525
Thailand	kt																																	2,722	2,804	2,926	2,894	2,941
Togo	kt																																	63.8	65.7	69.9	71.8	74.2
Trinidad and Tobago	kt																																	70.5	70.5	70.8	51.8	63.8
Tunisia	kt																																	309	327	343	347	341
Turkey	kt																																	2,893	3,023	3,209	3,387	3,397
Turkmenistan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					309	307	304	309	310
Uganda	kt																																	442	455	453	466	497
Ukraine	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					2,238	2,417	2,389	2,352	2,351
United Arab Emirates	kt																																	131	132	153	155	162
United Kingdom	kt																																	3,604	3,641	3,696	3,830	3,941
USA	kt																																	42,622	42,754	42,832	43,281	44,641
Uruguay	kt																																	628	586	640	612	639
Uzbekistan	kt	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					939	1,004	1,070	1,141	1,164
Venezuela	kt																																	1,776	1,709	1,622	1,447	1,200
Vietnam	kt																																	4,204	4,312	4,497	4,709	4,939
Yemen	kt																																	368	397	437	422	401
Zambia	kt																																	301	327	340	284	285
Zimbabwe	kt																																	265	268	237	255	255
World	kt																																	307,287	314,225	319,800	325,440	329,363

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