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

India
3.39 million 1000 An
in 2024
Southern Asia
8.11 million 1000 An
in 2024
India rank
5th
Southern Asia rank
10th

Meat, Poultry — Producing Animals/Slaughtered over time

  • India
  • Southern Asia
02.0M4.0M6.0M8.0M196119922024

How they compare

Southern Asia currently reports 8.11 million 1000 An against 3.39 million 1000 An in India, a difference of 4.72 million 1000 An.

That makes Southern Asia's figure about 2.4 times India's.

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

India ranks 5th and Southern Asia ranks 10th of 191 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade India Southern Asia Difference Ahead
1960s 88,857 1000 An 213,393 1000 An 124,536 1000 An Southern Asia
1970s 108,014 1000 An 339,172 1000 An 231,158 1000 An Southern Asia
1980s 227,540 1000 An 655,179 1000 An 427,639 1000 An Southern Asia
1990s 665,550 1000 An 1.56 million 1000 An 889,817 1000 An Southern Asia
2000s 1.26 million 1000 An 3.04 million 1000 An 1.78 million 1000 An Southern Asia
2010s 2.31 million 1000 An 5.41 million 1000 An 3.10 million 1000 An Southern Asia
2020s 3.14 million 1000 An 7.56 million 1000 An 4.42 million 1000 An Southern Asia

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered, India or Southern Asia?
Southern Asia, at 8.11 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 India and Southern Asia?
4.72 million 1000 An, with Southern Asia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for India and Southern Asia?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do India and Southern Asia rank globally for meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered?
India ranks 5th and Southern Asia ranks 10th of 191 countries.
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.