Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Belgium
Belgium: Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 9.40 million An in 2024. ▼ Falling
Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Belgium, 2000–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in An.
Analysis
The most recent figure for fat of pigs — producing animals/slaughtered in Belgium is 9.40 million An, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 0.4% on the previous year and down 20.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, fat of pigs — producing animals/slaughtered in Belgium peaked at 11.91 million An in 2013 and was at its lowest, 9.36 million An, in 2023.
Belgium ranks 24th of 172 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 25 years of available data.
Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Belgium, year by year
| Year | An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 11.12 million An | — |
| 2001 | 11.28 million An | +1.5% |
| 2002 | 11.11 million An | -1.5% |
| 2003 | 11.21 million An | +0.9% |
| 2004 | 11.12 million An | -0.8% |
| 2005 | 10.90 million An | -1.9% |
| 2006 | 10.74 million An | -1.5% |
| 2007 | 11.22 million An | +4.5% |
| 2008 | 11.16 million An | -0.6% |
| 2009 | 11.16 million An | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 11.90 million An | +6.6% |
| 2011 | 11.77 million An | -1.1% |
| 2012 | 11.70 million An | -0.6% |
| 2013 | 11.91 million An | +1.9% |
| 2014 | 11.86 million An | -0.5% |
| 2015 | 11.89 million An | +0.3% |
| 2016 | 11.18 million An | -5.9% |
| 2017 | 10.95 million An | -2.1% |
| 2018 | 11.23 million An | +2.6% |
| 2019 | 10.72 million An | -4.5% |
| 2020 | 11.15 million An | +4.0% |
| 2021 | 11.59 million An | +3.9% |
| 2022 | 10.52 million An | -9.2% |
| 2023 | 9.36 million An | -11.0% |
| 2024 | 9.40 million An | +0.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 11.10 million An | 10.74 million An | 11.28 million An | 10 |
| 2010s | 11.51 million An | 10.72 million An | 11.91 million An | 10 |
| 2020s | 10.40 million An | 9.36 million An | 11.59 million An | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Belgium
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -0.3325 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0073 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 443.58 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.2138 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.1233 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 0.7302 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 0.7302 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.2% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is fat of pigs — producing animals/slaughtered in Belgium?
- Fat of pigs — producing animals/slaughtered in Belgium was 9.40 million An in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest fat of pigs — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Belgium?
- The highest recorded value was 11.91 million An in 2013.
- What is the lowest fat of pigs — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Belgium?
- The lowest recorded value was 9.36 million An in 2023.
- How does Belgium rank for fat of pigs — producing animals/slaughtered?
- Belgium ranks 24th out of 172 countries with data for 2024.
- Is fat of pigs — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in Belgium?
- Over the last ten years it is down 20.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Belgium data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Fat of pigs — 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.