Beef and Buffalo Meat, primary — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Benin
Benin: Beef and Buffalo Meat, primary — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 214,628 An in 2024. ▲ Rising
Beef and Buffalo Meat, primary — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Benin, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in An.
Analysis
The most recent figure for beef and buffalo meat, primary — producing animals/slaughtered in Benin is 214,628 An, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 8.6% on the previous year and up 9.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, beef and buffalo meat, primary — producing animals/slaughtered in Benin peaked at 214,628 An in 2024 and was at its lowest, 48,112 An, in 1963.
Benin ranks 115th of 206 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 59,536 An | 48,112 An | 73,537 An | 9 |
| 1970s | 88,680 An | 73,632 An | 98,135 An | 10 |
| 1980s | 118,269 An | 107,768 An | 125,000 An | 10 |
| 1990s | 151,750 An | 140,000 An | 180,000 An | 10 |
| 2000s | 178,564 An | 163,500 An | 186,479 An | 10 |
| 2010s | 196,054 An | 187,554 An | 205,315 An | 10 |
| 2020s | 184,099 An | 157,517 An | 214,628 An | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Benin
- Agriculture share gdp 22.92 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 22.92 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 52.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.8% (2024)
- Rural population 46.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 6.91 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 22.9% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.63 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 20,973 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is beef and buffalo meat, primary — producing animals/slaughtered in Benin?
- Beef and buffalo meat, primary — producing animals/slaughtered in Benin was 214,628 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 Benin?
- The highest recorded value was 214,628 An in 2024.
- What is the lowest beef and buffalo meat, primary — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Benin?
- The lowest recorded value was 48,112 An in 1963.
- How does Benin rank for beef and buffalo meat, primary — producing animals/slaughtered?
- Benin ranks 115th out of 206 countries with data for 2024.
- Is beef and buffalo meat, primary — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in Benin?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Benin 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.