Beef and Buffalo Meat, primary — Yield/Carcass Weight by country

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...

Countries reporting
206
Highest
450 kg/An
Japan
Lowest
60 kg/An
Yemen
Median
200 kg/An
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
13,887

What the numbers show

Beef and Buffalo Meat, primary — Yield/Carcass Weight is currently reported for 206 countries. The highest value is 450 kg/An in Japan; the lowest is 60 kg/An in Yemen.

The median across all reporting countries is 200 kg/An, and the mean is 204.85 kg/An.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 8.

Over the past decade 122 countries rose and 62 fell. The largest increase was in Faroe Islands (up 498.1%), and the largest decrease in Iran (Islamic Republic of) (down 52.9%).

Beef and Buffalo Meat, primary — Yield/Carcass Weight: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Japan 450 kg/An 2024 up 3.7% rising
2 Singapore 400 kg/An 2024 down 11.1% rising
3 Indonesia 398 kg/An 2024 up 96.1% rising
4 India 382 kg/An 2024 up 10.7% volatile
5 Canada 378 kg/An 2024 up 11.8% rising
6 Luxembourg 373 kg/An 2024 up 4.2% rising
7 China, Macao SAR 358 kg/An 2024 up 6.2% rising
8 Tajikistan 353 kg/An 2024 up 63.4% rising
9 Malaysia 343 kg/An 2024 down 0.3% rising
10 Germany 336 kg/An 2024 up 6.0% rising
11 Belgium-Luxembourg 335 kg/An 1999 down 2.0% rising
12 Austria 334 kg/An 2024 up 1.2% rising
13 Republic of Korea 332 kg/An 2024 up 3.4% rising
14 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 328 kg/An 2024 down 0.3% rising
15 Finland 327 kg/An 2024 up 7.9% rising
16 France 326 kg/An 2024 up 7.2% rising
17 Sweden 325 kg/An 2024 up 6.2% rising
18 North Macedonia 323 kg/An 2024 up 121.2% rising
19 Faroe Islands 317 kg/An 2024 up 498.1% rising
20 Ireland 316 kg/An 2024 down 5.1% rising
21 Jordan 314 kg/An 2024 up 57.8% rising
22 Namibia 313 kg/An 2024 up 21.3% rising
23 Belgium 308 kg/An 2024 unchanged falling
24 Czechia 307 kg/An 2024 up 4.4% rising
25 Slovenia 303 kg/An 2024 up 4.1% rising
26 Israel 301 kg/An 2024 down 6.5% rising
26 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 301 kg/An 2024 up 41.3% rising
28 Poland 300 kg/An 2024 up 11.5% rising
29 Australia 298 kg/An 2024 up 13.7% rising
30 Egypt 293 kg/An 2024 down 7.9% rising
30 Guyana 293 kg/An 2024 up 35.0% rising
30 Slovakia 293 kg/An 2024 up 17.7% rising
33 Türkiye 291 kg/An 2024 up 26.0% volatile
34 Nepal 290 kg/An 2024 up 33.6% rising
35 Spain 289 kg/An 2024 up 7.8% rising
36 Palestine 287 kg/An 2022 up 14.8% rising
37 Malta 285 kg/An 2024 up 3.3% rising
38 Norway 282 kg/An 2024 up 4.1% rising
39 Niger 280 kg/An 2024 down 11.4% volatile
40 Czechoslovakia 277 kg/An 1992 up 24.2% rising
41 Mauritius 276 kg/An 2024 up 16.9% rising
41 Zimbabwe 276 kg/An 2024 up 24.9% rising
43 Cyprus 275 kg/An 2024 down 11.6% rising
44 Lithuania 274 kg/An 2024 up 15.6% rising
45 Guatemala 270 kg/An 2024 up 34.3% rising
46 Croatia 268 kg/An 2024 up 17.5% rising
46 China, Hong Kong SAR 268 kg/An 2024 down 10.4% rising
48 Denmark 267 kg/An 2024 up 3.1% rising
48 Serbia 267 kg/An 2024 up 16.1% rising
50 Hungary 261 kg/An 2024 up 4.8% flat
50 Kuwait 261 kg/An 2024 down 10.0% rising
52 Chile 260 kg/An 2024 up 3.6% flat
53 Jamaica 259 kg/An 2024 up 12.6% rising
54 Brazil 258 kg/An 2024 up 7.1% rising
55 Serbia and Montenegro 257 kg/An 2005 up 11.3% flat
56 Bosnia and Herzegovina 254 kg/An 2024 up 75.2% rising
57 Mexico 253 kg/An 2024 up 19.3% rising
57 Portugal 253 kg/An 2024 up 8.1% rising
57 Uruguay 253 kg/An 2024 up 2.8% rising
60 Estonia 251 kg/An 2024 up 7.3% rising
60 Brunei Darussalam 251 kg/An 2024 up 18.4% rising
62 United Arab Emirates 250 kg/An 2024 unchanged flat
62 Italy 250 kg/An 2024 down 8.8% rising
64 Australia and New Zealand 249 kg/An 2024 up 9.7% rising
65 Belarus 245 kg/An 2024 up 48.5% rising
66 Sierra Leone 244 kg/An 2024 up 1.2% rising
67 Switzerland 239 kg/An 2024 up 7.7% rising
67 Fiji 239 kg/An 2024 up 279.4% falling
69 Puerto Rico 238 kg/An 2024 down 15.0% rising
70 Greece 236 kg/An 2024 up 5.8% rising
71 Costa Rica 230 kg/An 2024 up 0.4% rising
71 Turkmenistan 230 kg/An 2024 up 30.7% flat
73 Kyrgyzstan 229 kg/An 2024 up 28.7% falling
74 Argentina 228 kg/An 2024 up 3.2% rising
74 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 228 kg/An 2024 up 1.8% rising
76 Colombia 227 kg/An 2024 up 6.6% rising
77 Eswatini 225 kg/An 2024 unchanged flat
77 Russian Federation 225 kg/An 2024 up 16.6% rising
79 Ecuador 224 kg/An 2024 up 50.3% rising
80 Benin 223 kg/An 2024 up 15.5% rising
80 New Caledonia 223 kg/An 2024 up 19.9% rising
82 Tunisia 222 kg/An 2024 down 2.6% rising
83 Panama 219 kg/An 2024 up 0.9% rising
84 Latvia 217 kg/An 2024 up 21.2% rising
84 Sao Tome and Principe 217 kg/An 2024 up 21.2% rising
86 Iceland 216 kg/An 2024 up 9.1% rising
86 Lebanon 216 kg/An 2024 up 2.9% rising
88 Saudi Arabia 213 kg/An 2024 up 38.3% rising
89 Guadeloupe 212 kg/An 2006 down 2.3% rising
90 Montenegro 209 kg/An 2024 up 16.1% rising
91 Burundi 208 kg/An 2024 up 2.5% rising
91 Algeria 208 kg/An 2024 up 13.0% rising
93 Iraq 207 kg/An 2024 down 1.9% rising
94 Botswana 206 kg/An 2024 up 2.5% flat
94 Suriname 206 kg/An 2024 up 5.1% rising
96 Seychelles 205 kg/An 2024 down 0.5% flat
96 USSR 205 kg/An 1991 up 17.1% rising
96 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 205 kg/An 2024 up 5.1% rising
96 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 205 kg/An 2024 up 6.8% rising
100 Belize 204 kg/An 2024 unchanged rising
101 Nicaragua 202 kg/An 2023 up 31.2% falling
102 Cuba 201 kg/An 2024 up 19.6% rising
103 Grenada 200 kg/An 2024 down 6.1% rising
103 Morocco 200 kg/An 2024 down 6.5% rising
103 Martinique 200 kg/An 2006 down 6.5% rising
106 Honduras 199 kg/An 2024 up 7.0% rising
106 China, Taiwan Province of 199 kg/An 2024 unchanged rising
108 French Polynesia 194 kg/An 2024 up 17.6% rising
109 Libya 193 kg/An 2024 down 3.5% rising
110 Uzbekistan 192 kg/An 2024 up 9.1% flat
111 Tonga 190 kg/An 2024 unchanged rising
112 Saint Kitts and Nevis 189 kg/An 2024 down 17.8% rising
113 Vanuatu 188 kg/An 2024 unchanged rising
114 Paraguay 185 kg/An 2024 down 20.9% rising
114 Solomon Islands 185 kg/An 2024 unchanged flat
116 Saint Lucia 184 kg/An 2024 unchanged flat
117 Ukraine 183 kg/An 2024 up 20.4% rising
118 Melanesia 182 kg/An 2024 up 44.4% falling
119 Dominica 180 kg/An 2024 unchanged flat
120 Kazakhstan 176 kg/An 2024 up 0.6% rising
121 Myanmar 174 kg/An 2024 down 18.3% rising
122 Angola 172 kg/An 2024 up 1.8% rising
123 Uganda 170 kg/An 2024 up 14.9% rising
123 Niue 170 kg/An 2024 down 14.6% flat
125 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 169 kg/An 2024 down 52.9% rising
126 Barbados 167 kg/An 2024 down 19.7% rising
127 Bahamas 166 kg/An 2024 down 2.4% flat
127 Caribbean 166 kg/An 2024 up 1.8% flat
129 Senegal 165 kg/An 2024 down 21.1% rising
129 Thailand 165 kg/An 2024 up 7.8% falling
129 Côte d'Ivoire 165 kg/An 2024 up 111.5% falling
132 Zambia 162 kg/An 2024 up 1.2% falling
133 Bulgaria 161 kg/An 2024 up 18.4% falling
134 Polynesia 160 kg/An 2024 unchanged falling
135 Antigua and Barbuda 159 kg/An 2024 down 13.6% falling
135 Haiti 159 kg/An 2024 up 3.2% falling
137 New Zealand 158 kg/An 2024 up 8.2% rising
138 Cameroon 157 kg/An 2024 up 5.4% rising
138 Cabo Verde 157 kg/An 2024 up 1.9% rising
140 Viet Nam 156 kg/An 2024 up 44.4% falling
141 China 153 kg/An 2024 up 4.1% rising
141 China, mainland 153 kg/An 2024 up 4.1% rising
143 Congo 152 kg/An 2024 down 2.6% flat
143 Democratic Republic of the Congo 152 kg/An 2024 down 14.1% rising
145 Samoa 151 kg/An 2024 down 1.3% falling
146 Lesotho 150 kg/An 2024 unchanged flat
146 Trinidad and Tobago 150 kg/An 2024 unchanged falling
146 French Guiana 150 kg/An 2006 down 16.7% flat
146 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 150 kg/An 2024 unchanged flat
150 Peru 148 kg/An 2024 up 3.5% rising
151 United Republic of Tanzania 145 kg/An 2024 up 40.8% rising
152 Mozambique 142 kg/An 2024 up 42.0% falling
152 El Salvador 142 kg/An 2024 down 19.3% rising
154 Dominican Republic 141 kg/An 2024 down 8.4% flat
155 Micronesia 139 kg/An 2024 up 2.2% flat
155 Micronesia (Federated States of) 139 kg/An 2024 up 2.2% flat
157 South Sudan 137 kg/An 2024 down 8.7% falling
158 Pakistan 136 kg/An 2024 unchanged rising
159 Philippines 135 kg/An 2024 down 40.8% rising
159 Romania 135 kg/An 2024 down 16.1% rising
161 Chad 133 kg/An 2024 up 10.8% flat
162 Afghanistan 131 kg/An 2024 down 27.2% rising
163 Yugoslav SFR 130 kg/An 1991 down 5.8% rising
164 Mongolia 126 kg/An 2024 up 44.8% falling
164 Mauritania 126 kg/An 2024 down 3.1% rising
164 Republic of Moldova 126 kg/An 2024 up 3.3% falling
167 Oman 124 kg/An 2024 down 4.6% flat
168 Cambodia 123 kg/An 2024 down 0.8% flat
168 Sri Lanka 123 kg/An 2024 down 2.4% falling
168 Lao People's Democratic Republic 123 kg/An 2024 up 3.4% rising
171 Armenia 121 kg/An 2024 up 14.2% falling
171 Sudan (former) 121 kg/An 2011 up 1.7% falling
171 Syrian Arab Republic 121 kg/An 2024 down 12.9% rising
174 Bahrain 120 kg/An 2024 unchanged flat
174 Gambia 120 kg/An 2024 unchanged flat
174 Mali 120 kg/An 2024 up 5.3% flat
174 Qatar 120 kg/An 2024 unchanged flat
178 Guinea-Bissau 118 kg/An 2024 up 7.3% flat
179 Kenya 116 kg/An 2024 down 45.5% rising
180 Liberia 115 kg/An 2024 down 8.0% falling
181 Albania 112 kg/An 2024 down 9.7% rising
182 Comoros 110 kg/An 2024 unchanged flat
182 Equatorial Guinea 110 kg/An 2024 unchanged flat
184 Azerbaijan 109 kg/An 2024 down 2.7% falling
184 Ethiopia 109 kg/An 2024 up 0.9% flat
184 Guinea 109 kg/An 2024 down 8.4% rising
184 Malawi 109 kg/An 2024 down 0.9% falling
184 Sudan 109 kg/An 2024 unchanged flat
184 Togo 109 kg/An 2024 up 41.6% falling
190 Djibouti 108 kg/An 2024 down 0.9% flat
190 Somalia 108 kg/An 2024 down 1.8% flat
192 Burkina Faso 107 kg/An 2024 up 21.6% falling
192 Papua New Guinea 107 kg/An 2024 down 28.7% falling
194 Madagascar 106 kg/An 2024 down 15.2% falling
195 Ethiopia PDR 105 kg/An 1992 down 3.7% flat
196 Gabon 103 kg/An 2024 down 22.0% falling
196 Ghana 103 kg/An 2024 up 3.0% falling
196 Cook Islands 103 kg/An 2024 up 4.0% falling
199 Eritrea 101 kg/An 2024 up 3.1% falling
200 Timor-Leste 97 kg/An 2024 down 4.9% flat
201 Nigeria 96 kg/An 2024 down 20.7% falling
202 Rwanda 90 kg/An 2024 down 6.2% falling
203 Georgia 82 kg/An 2024 up 32.3% falling
204 Bhutan 75 kg/An 2024 down 22.7% flat
205 Bangladesh 73 kg/An 2024 up 2.8% rising
206 Yemen 60 kg/An 2024 unchanged falling

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Beef and Buffalo Meat, primary — Yield/Carcass Weight
Unit
kg/An
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
239 places, 13,887 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.