Game meat, fresh, chilled or frozen — Production 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...
What the numbers show
Game meat, fresh, chilled or frozen — Production is currently reported for 62 countries. The highest value is 443,985 t in Papua New Guinea; the lowest is 59.15 t in Senegal.
The median across all reporting countries is 8,130 t, and the mean is 27,602 t.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 7,506.
Over the past decade 47 countries rose and 14 fell. The largest increase was in Congo (up 21.6%), and the largest decrease in Ethiopia PDR (down 50.7%).
Game meat, fresh, chilled or frozen — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Papua New Guinea | 443,985 t | 2024 | up 12.3% | rising |
| 2 | Nigeria | 178,446 t | 2024 | up 6.2% | rising |
| 3 | Ethiopia | 97,350 t | 2024 | up 14.4% | rising |
| 4 | Cameroon | 81,813 t | 2024 | up 15.7% | rising |
| 5 | Ghana | 76,248 t | 2024 | up 9.0% | rising |
| 6 | Germany | 58,400 t | 2017 | down 12.8% | volatile |
| 7 | Morocco | 56,655 t | 2024 | up 14.0% | volatile |
| 8 | South Africa | 53,993 t | 2024 | up 20.5% | volatile |
| 9 | Argentina | 51,419 t | 2024 | up 2.8% | rising |
| 10 | Congo | 47,121 t | 2024 | up 21.6% | volatile |
| 11 | Zambia | 42,535 t | 2024 | up 9.6% | rising |
| 12 | Zimbabwe | 35,715 t | 2024 | up 2.0% | rising |
| 13 | Kenya | 33,246 t | 2024 | up 18.5% | volatile |
| 14 | Niger | 32,965 t | 2024 | up 15.7% | volatile |
| 15 | Gabon | 29,823 t | 2024 | up 9.9% | rising |
| 16 | Botswana | 27,967 t | 2024 | up 12.4% | volatile |
| 17 | Ethiopia PDR | 27,630 t | 1992 | down 50.7% | rising |
| 18 | Mali | 26,917 t | 2024 | up 13.1% | rising |
| 19 | Belgium-Luxembourg | 25,776 t | 1999 | up 8.8% | rising |
| 20 | Central African Republic | 24,232 t | 2024 | up 2.8% | rising |
| 21 | New Zealand | 17,105 t | 2024 | down 29.2% | volatile |
| 21 | Australia and New Zealand | 17,105 t | 2024 | down 29.2% | volatile |
| 23 | Rwanda | 17,036 t | 2024 | up 13.8% | rising |
| 24 | Sweden | 16,062 t | 2017 | up 5.8% | rising |
| 25 | South Sudan | 10,071 t | 2024 | up 0.7% | flat |
| 26 | Sudan (former) | 9,800 t | 2011 | up 10.1% | rising |
| 27 | Angola | 9,636 t | 2024 | up 6.9% | rising |
| 28 | Benin | 9,077 t | 2024 | up 11.9% | rising |
| 29 | Peru | 8,715 t | 2024 | up 11.3% | rising |
| 30 | China, Hong Kong SAR | 8,157 t | 2024 | up 8.0% | rising |
| 30 | China | 8,157 t | 2024 | up 8.0% | rising |
| 32 | Poland | 8,103 t | 2017 | down 37.7% | rising |
| 33 | Liberia | 8,063 t | 2024 | up 5.7% | rising |
| 34 | Afghanistan | 8,012 t | 2024 | up 0.3% | rising |
| 35 | Madagascar | 7,698 t | 2024 | up 5.5% | volatile |
| 36 | Burkina Faso | 7,479 t | 2024 | up 15.2% | rising |
| 37 | Namibia | 7,110 t | 2024 | up 4.9% | rising |
| 38 | Yugoslav SFR | 7,000 t | 1991 | up 16.7% | rising |
| 39 | Spain | 6,786 t | 2017 | down 9.5% | falling |
| 40 | Austria | 6,700 t | 2017 | up 3.1% | falling |
| 41 | Togo | 6,673 t | 2024 | up 14.4% | rising |
| 42 | Guinea | 6,537 t | 2024 | up 8.1% | rising |
| 43 | Norway | 6,529 t | 2024 | down 8.1% | rising |
| 44 | Lesotho | 5,733 t | 2024 | up 10.9% | rising |
| 45 | Chad | 5,705 t | 2024 | up 20.1% | rising |
| 46 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 4,684 t | 2024 | down 2.2% | rising |
| 47 | Romania | 4,544 t | 2017 | up 5.7% | volatile |
| 48 | Portugal | 4,164 t | 2017 | down 2.0% | rising |
| 49 | Sierra Leone | 3,422 t | 2024 | up 8.8% | rising |
| 50 | Denmark | 3,404 t | 2017 | up 13.5% | rising |
| 51 | Switzerland | 1,845 t | 2024 | up 4.4% | rising |
| 52 | Gambia | 1,581 t | 2024 | up 13.9% | rising |
| 53 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 1,500 t | 2007 | down 25.4% | volatile |
| 54 | Serbia and Montenegro | 1,200 t | 2005 | unchanged | flat |
| 54 | Czechia | 1,200 t | 2017 | up 9.1% | flat |
| 56 | Mauritius | 640.86 t | 2024 | up 2.5% | rising |
| 57 | Tunisia | 533.87 t | 2024 | up 1.8% | volatile |
| 58 | Uruguay | 441.79 t | 2024 | down 1.9% | volatile |
| 59 | Luxembourg | 400 t | 2017 | down 8.1% | flat |
| 60 | Cyprus | 327 t | 2017 | down 2.7% | volatile |
| 61 | Lithuania | 100 t | 2017 | up 2.0% | flat |
| 62 | Senegal | 59.15 t | 2024 | down 7.4% | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Africa 1.23 million t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 771,233 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 591,200 t
- Western Africa 518,533 t
- Oceania 461,090 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 341,716 t
- Americas 332,007 t
- United States of America 271,430 t
- Northern America 271,430 t
- Eastern Africa 268,291 t
- Côte d'Ivoire 161,065 t
- European Union (27) 110,191 t
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.