Beef and Buffalo Meat, primary — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Malta
Malta: Beef and Buffalo Meat, primary — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 4,030 An in 2024. ▼ Falling
Beef and Buffalo Meat, primary — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Malta, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in An.
Analysis
Malta recorded 4,030 An for beef and buffalo meat, primary — producing animals/slaughtered in 2024.
That represents a change of up 1.8% on the previous year and down 1.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, beef and buffalo meat, primary — producing animals/slaughtered in Malta peaked at 12,808 An in 1961 and was at its lowest, 3,700 An, in 2019.
That places Malta 185th out of 206 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10,609 An | 8,787 An | 12,808 An | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,577 An | 5,745 An | 9,571 An | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,529 An | 5,387 An | 8,877 An | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,499 An | 6,045 An | 7,060 An | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,495 An | 4,822 An | 6,046 An | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,185 An | 3,700 An | 5,691 An | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,930 An | 3,750 An | 4,100 An | 5 |
Countries ranked near Malta
- 182 Brunei Darussalam 5,629 An compare
- 183 Cabo Verde 4,467 An compare
- 184 Solomon Islands 4,174 An compare
- 186 Dominica 3,022 An compare
- 187 Saint Lucia 2,193 An compare
- 188 China, Macao SAR 2,127 An compare
More agriculture & rural data for Malta
- Agriculture share gdp 0.4691 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 0.4691 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.2% (2024)
- Rural population 4.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.3% (2025)
- Rural population 25,040 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 0.5% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 130.29 million current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 0 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is beef and buffalo meat, primary — producing animals/slaughtered in Malta?
- Beef and buffalo meat, primary — producing animals/slaughtered in Malta was 4,030 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 Malta?
- The highest recorded value was 12,808 An in 1961.
- What is the lowest beef and buffalo meat, primary — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Malta?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,700 An in 2019.
- How does Malta rank for beef and buffalo meat, primary — producing animals/slaughtered?
- Malta ranks 185th out of 206 countries with data for 2024.
- Is beef and buffalo meat, primary — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in Malta?
- Over the last ten years it is down 1.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Malta 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.