Beef and Buffalo Meat, primary — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Americas
Americas: Beef and Buffalo Meat, primary — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 117.09 million An in 2024. ▲ Rising
Beef and Buffalo Meat, primary — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Americas, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in An.
Analysis
Americas recorded 117.09 million An for beef and buffalo meat, primary — producing animals/slaughtered in 2024.
The figure is up 4.2% on the previous year and up 2.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, beef and buffalo meat, primary — producing animals/slaughtered in Americas peaked at 121.79 million An in 2007 and was at its lowest, 66.21 million An, in 1961.
Americas ranks 2nd of 29 groups on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Beef and Buffalo Meat, primary — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Americas, year by year
| Year | An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 66.21 million An | — |
| 1962 | 68.69 million An | +3.7% |
| 1963 | 70.79 million An | +3.1% |
| 1964 | 72.99 million An | +3.1% |
| 1965 | 75.26 million An | +3.1% |
| 1966 | 76.36 million An | +1.5% |
| 1967 | 77.57 million An | +1.6% |
| 1968 | 80.68 million An | +4.0% |
| 1969 | 81.87 million An | +1.5% |
| 1970 | 80.46 million An | -1.7% |
| 1971 | 76.95 million An | -4.4% |
| 1972 | 78.05 million An | +1.4% |
| 1973 | 74.31 million An | -4.8% |
| 1974 | 79.23 million An | +6.6% |
| 1975 | 90.91 million An | +14.7% |
| 1976 | 97.78 million An | +7.6% |
| 1977 | 98.82 million An | +1.1% |
| 1978 | 96.77 million An | -2.1% |
| 1979 | 87.49 million An | -9.6% |
| 1980 | 87.37 million An | -0.1% |
| 1981 | 91.54 million An | +4.8% |
| 1982 | 91.28 million An | -0.3% |
| 1983 | 91.95 million An | +0.7% |
| 1984 | 93.81 million An | +2.0% |
| 1985 | 94.85 million An | +1.1% |
| 1986 | 98.17 million An | +3.5% |
| 1987 | 93.35 million An | -4.9% |
| 1988 | 94.32 million An | +1.0% |
| 1989 | 95.61 million An | +1.4% |
| 1990 | 95.30 million An | -0.3% |
| 1991 | 96.53 million An | +1.3% |
| 1992 | 94.61 million An | -2.0% |
| 1993 | 95.86 million An | +1.3% |
| 1994 | 97.05 million An | +1.2% |
| 1995 | 98.34 million An | +1.3% |
| 1996 | 101.48 million An | +3.2% |
| 1997 | 102.80 million An | +1.3% |
| 1998 | 102.54 million An | -0.2% |
| 1999 | 106.54 million An | +3.9% |
| 2000 | 107.76 million An | +1.2% |
| 2001 | 107.48 million An | -0.3% |
| 2002 | 108.98 million An | +1.4% |
| 2003 | 110.55 million An | +1.4% |
| 2004 | 112.44 million An | +1.7% |
| 2005 | 116.03 million An | +3.2% |
| 2006 | 119.21 million An | +2.7% |
| 2007 | 121.79 million An | +2.2% |
| 2008 | 120.75 million An | -0.9% |
| 2009 | 120.00 million An | -0.6% |
| 2010 | 116.41 million An | -3.0% |
| 2011 | 115.84 million An | -0.5% |
| 2012 | 117.06 million An | +1.1% |
| 2013 | 119.19 million An | +1.8% |
| 2014 | 114.32 million An | -4.1% |
| 2015 | 110.11 million An | -3.7% |
| 2016 | 110.42 million An | +0.3% |
| 2017 | 114.56 million An | +3.7% |
| 2018 | 117.24 million An | +2.3% |
| 2019 | 119.32 million An | +1.8% |
| 2020 | 106.99 million An | -10.3% |
| 2021 | 106.50 million An | -0.5% |
| 2022 | 109.50 million An | +2.8% |
| 2023 | 112.39 million An | +2.6% |
| 2024 | 117.09 million An | +4.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 74.49 million An | 66.21 million An | 81.87 million An | 9 |
| 1970s | 86.08 million An | 74.31 million An | 98.82 million An | 10 |
| 1980s | 93.22 million An | 87.37 million An | 98.17 million An | 10 |
| 1990s | 99.10 million An | 94.61 million An | 106.54 million An | 10 |
| 2000s | 114.50 million An | 107.48 million An | 121.79 million An | 10 |
| 2010s | 115.45 million An | 110.11 million An | 119.32 million An | 10 |
| 2020s | 110.49 million An | 106.50 million An | 117.09 million An | 5 |
Countries ranked near Americas
More agriculture & rural data for Americas
- Cereals, primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -0.8368 % change on previous year (2024)
- Roots and Tubers, Total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 2.91 % change on previous year (2024)
- Livestock — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.12 % change on previous year (2024)
- Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 1.04 % change on previous year (2024)
- Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.24 % change on previous year (2024)
- Crops — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.65 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross 0.7578 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cabbages — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 0.7575 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 3.54 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables and Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant) -1.67 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is beef and buffalo meat, primary — producing animals/slaughtered in Americas?
- Beef and buffalo meat, primary — producing animals/slaughtered in Americas was 117.09 million An in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest beef and buffalo meat, primary — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Americas?
- The highest recorded value was 121.79 million An in 2007.
- What is the lowest beef and buffalo meat, primary — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Americas?
- The lowest recorded value was 66.21 million An in 1961.
- How does Americas rank for beef and buffalo meat, primary — producing animals/slaughtered?
- Americas ranks 2nd out of 29 groups with data for 2024.
- Is beef and buffalo meat, primary — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in Americas?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Americas data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Beef and Buffalo Meat, primary — Producing Animals/Slaughtered. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
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.