Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Australia and New Zealand
Australia and New Zealand: Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 85,753 An in 2024. ▲ Rising
Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Australia and New Zealand, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in An.
Analysis
The most recent figure for horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Australia and New Zealand is 85,753 An, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 5.6% on the previous year and down 15.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Australia and New Zealand peaked at 103,600 An in 1987 and was at its lowest, 24,000 An, in 1976.
That places Australia and New Zealand 11th out of 83 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Australia and New Zealand, year by year
| Year | An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 55,000 An | — |
| 1962 | 54,500 An | -0.9% |
| 1963 | 46,500 An | -14.7% |
| 1964 | 45,000 An | -3.2% |
| 1965 | 38,000 An | -15.6% |
| 1966 | 43,400 An | +14.2% |
| 1967 | 34,900 An | -19.6% |
| 1968 | 27,700 An | -20.6% |
| 1969 | 31,000 An | +11.9% |
| 1970 | 25,000 An | -19.4% |
| 1971 | 25,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 25,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 25,500 An | +2.0% |
| 1974 | 26,000 An | +2.0% |
| 1975 | 26,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 24,000 An | -7.7% |
| 1977 | 25,000 An | +4.2% |
| 1978 | 25,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 27,000 An | +8.0% |
| 1980 | 33,000 An | +22.2% |
| 1981 | 78,700 An | +138.5% |
| 1982 | 77,200 An | -1.9% |
| 1983 | 84,500 An | +9.5% |
| 1984 | 84,500 An | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 84,600 An | +0.1% |
| 1986 | 102,600 An | +21.3% |
| 1987 | 103,600 An | +1.0% |
| 1988 | 83,000 An | -19.9% |
| 1989 | 70,000 An | -15.7% |
| 1990 | 79,000 An | +12.9% |
| 1991 | 82,055 An | +3.9% |
| 1992 | 83,750 An | +2.1% |
| 1993 | 87,088 An | +4.0% |
| 1994 | 87,233 An | +0.2% |
| 1995 | 87,498 An | +0.3% |
| 1996 | 83,760 An | -4.3% |
| 1997 | 82,696 An | -1.3% |
| 1998 | 80,231 An | -3.0% |
| 1999 | 80,528 An | +0.4% |
| 2000 | 79,701 An | -1.0% |
| 2001 | 78,107 An | -2.0% |
| 2002 | 78,490 An | +0.5% |
| 2003 | 77,348 An | -1.5% |
| 2004 | 76,961 An | -0.5% |
| 2005 | 77,448 An | +0.6% |
| 2006 | 90,356 An | +16.7% |
| 2007 | 93,255 An | +3.2% |
| 2008 | 93,137 An | -0.1% |
| 2009 | 94,903 An | +1.9% |
| 2010 | 93,705 An | -1.3% |
| 2011 | 95,879 An | +2.3% |
| 2012 | 96,805 An | +1.0% |
| 2013 | 99,560 An | +2.8% |
| 2014 | 101,477 An | +1.9% |
| 2015 | 102,246 An | +0.8% |
| 2016 | 101,759 An | -0.5% |
| 2017 | 99,342 An | -2.4% |
| 2018 | 99,843 An | +0.5% |
| 2019 | 99,979 An | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 99,075 An | -0.9% |
| 2021 | 97,845 An | -1.2% |
| 2022 | 94,999 An | -2.9% |
| 2023 | 90,879 An | -4.3% |
| 2024 | 85,753 An | -5.6% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 41,778 An | 27,700 An | 55,000 An | 9 |
| 1970s | 25,350 An | 24,000 An | 27,000 An | 10 |
| 1980s | 80,170 An | 33,000 An | 103,600 An | 10 |
| 1990s | 83,384 An | 79,000 An | 87,498 An | 10 |
| 2000s | 83,971 An | 76,961 An | 94,903 An | 10 |
| 2010s | 99,060 An | 93,705 An | 102,246 An | 10 |
| 2020s | 93,710 An | 85,753 An | 99,075 An | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Australia and New Zealand?
- Horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Australia and New Zealand was 85,753 An in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The highest recorded value was 103,600 An in 1987.
- What is the lowest horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The lowest recorded value was 24,000 An in 1976.
- How does Australia and New Zealand rank for horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered?
- Australia and New Zealand ranks 11th out of 83 countries with data for 2024.
- Is horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in Australia and New Zealand?
- Over the last ten years it is down 15.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Australia and New Zealand data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.