Americas vs India: Meat, Poultry — Producing Animals/Slaughtered

Americas
24.34 million 1000 An
in 2024
India
3.39 million 1000 An
in 2024
Americas rank
3rd
India rank
5th

Meat, Poultry — Producing Animals/Slaughtered over time

  • Americas
  • India
05.0M10.0M15.0M20.0M25.0M196119922024

How they compare

Americas currently reports 24.34 million 1000 An against 3.39 million 1000 An in India, a difference of 20.95 million 1000 An.

That makes Americas's figure about 7.2 times India's.

Across all 64 years both countries report, Americas has been ahead every year.

Americas ranks 3rd and India ranks 5th of 33 groups.

Americas has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Americas India Difference Ahead
1960s 3.54 million 1000 An 88,857 1000 An 3.45 million 1000 An Americas
1970s 5.27 million 1000 An 108,014 1000 An 5.16 million 1000 An Americas
1980s 8.22 million 1000 An 227,540 1000 An 8.00 million 1000 An Americas
1990s 13.48 million 1000 An 665,550 1000 An 12.81 million 1000 An Americas
2000s 18.93 million 1000 An 1.26 million 1000 An 17.67 million 1000 An Americas
2010s 21.49 million 1000 An 2.31 million 1000 An 19.18 million 1000 An Americas
2020s 23.70 million 1000 An 3.14 million 1000 An 20.55 million 1000 An Americas

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered, Americas or India?
Americas, at 24.34 million 1000 An against 3.39 million 1000 An in India as of 2024.
What is the difference in meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered between Americas and India?
20.95 million 1000 An, with Americas ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Americas and India?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Americas and India rank globally for meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered?
Americas ranks 3rd and India ranks 5th of 33 groups.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Meat, Poultry — Producing Animals/Slaughtered. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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Indicator
Meat, Poultry — Producing Animals/Slaughtered
Unit
1000 An
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
240 places, 13,971 data points, 1961–2024
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Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.