Eastern Asia vs India: Meat, Poultry — Producing Animals/Slaughtered

Eastern Asia
18.55 million 1000 An
in 2024
India
3.39 million 1000 An
in 2024
Eastern Asia rank
2nd
India rank
5th

Meat, Poultry — Producing Animals/Slaughtered over time

  • Eastern Asia
  • India
05.0M10.0M15.0M20.0M196119922024

How they compare

Eastern Asia currently reports 18.55 million 1000 An against 3.39 million 1000 An in India, a difference of 15.16 million 1000 An.

That makes Eastern Asia's figure about 5.5 times India's.

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

Eastern Asia ranks 2nd and India ranks 5th of 41 regions.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Eastern Asia India Difference Ahead
1960s 914,553 1000 An 88,857 1000 An 825,697 1000 An Eastern Asia
1970s 1.66 million 1000 An 108,014 1000 An 1.55 million 1000 An Eastern Asia
1980s 2.71 million 1000 An 227,540 1000 An 2.49 million 1000 An Eastern Asia
1990s 6.30 million 1000 An 665,550 1000 An 5.64 million 1000 An Eastern Asia
2000s 10.61 million 1000 An 1.26 million 1000 An 9.36 million 1000 An Eastern Asia
2010s 14.39 million 1000 An 2.31 million 1000 An 12.08 million 1000 An Eastern Asia
2020s 17.83 million 1000 An 3.14 million 1000 An 14.69 million 1000 An Eastern Asia

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered, Eastern Asia or India?
Eastern Asia, at 18.55 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 Eastern Asia and India?
15.16 million 1000 An, with Eastern Asia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Eastern Asia and India?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Eastern Asia and India rank globally for meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered?
Eastern Asia ranks 2nd and India ranks 5th of 41 regions.
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.