Americas vs India: Sheep and Goat Meat — Producing Animals/Slaughtered

Americas
33.23 million An
in 2024
India
237.70 million An
in 2024
Americas rank
16th
India rank
3rd

Sheep and Goat Meat — Producing Animals/Slaughtered over time

  • Americas
  • India
50.0M100.0M150.0M200.0M250.0M196119922024

How they compare

India currently reports 237.70 million An against 33.23 million An in Americas, a difference of 204.48 million An.

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

The two have swapped places 1 time across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Americas ahead.

Americas ranks 16th and India ranks 3rd of 29 groups.

Across the 7 decades both report, Americas averaged higher in 2 and India in 5.

Head to head by decade

Decade Americas India Difference Ahead
1960s 45.29 million An 35.87 million An 9.42 million An Americas
1970s 38.56 million An 37.58 million An 982,160 An Americas
1980s 35.42 million An 50.63 million An 15.21 million An India
1990s 36.71 million An 61.80 million An 25.09 million An India
2000s 34.61 million An 71.95 million An 37.34 million An India
2010s 32.27 million An 126.41 million An 94.14 million An India
2020s 32.98 million An 200.74 million An 167.76 million An India

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered, Americas or India?
India, at 237.70 million An against 33.23 million An in Americas as of 2024.
What is the difference in sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered between Americas and India?
204.48 million An, with India 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 sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered?
Americas ranks 16th and India ranks 3rd of 29 groups.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Sheep and Goat Meat — Producing Animals/Slaughtered. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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Indicator
Sheep and Goat Meat — Producing Animals/Slaughtered
Unit
An
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
235 places, 13,604 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.