Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Australia
Australia: 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, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in An.
Analysis
Australia recorded 85,753 An for horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 5.6% on the previous year and down 14.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Australia peaked at 100,936 An in 2016 and was at its lowest, 21,000 An, in 1976.
That places Australia 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, year by year
| Year | An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 53,000 An | — |
| 1962 | 52,000 An | -1.9% |
| 1963 | 44,000 An | -15.4% |
| 1964 | 42,000 An | -4.5% |
| 1965 | 35,000 An | -16.7% |
| 1966 | 40,000 An | +14.3% |
| 1967 | 32,000 An | -20.0% |
| 1968 | 25,000 An | -21.9% |
| 1969 | 29,000 An | +16.0% |
| 1970 | 22,000 An | -24.1% |
| 1971 | 22,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 22,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 22,500 An | +2.3% |
| 1974 | 23,000 An | +2.2% |
| 1975 | 23,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 21,000 An | -8.7% |
| 1977 | 22,000 An | +4.8% |
| 1978 | 22,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 24,000 An | +9.1% |
| 1980 | 30,000 An | +25.0% |
| 1981 | 75,700 An | +152.3% |
| 1982 | 74,700 An | -1.3% |
| 1983 | 82,000 An | +9.8% |
| 1984 | 82,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 82,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 99,600 An | +21.5% |
| 1987 | 99,600 An | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 78,000 An | -21.7% |
| 1989 | 65,000 An | -16.7% |
| 1990 | 74,000 An | +13.8% |
| 1991 | 78,000 An | +5.4% |
| 1992 | 78,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1993 | 80,000 An | +2.6% |
| 1994 | 80,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1995 | 80,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 78,000 An | -2.5% |
| 1997 | 78,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1998 | 76,000 An | -2.6% |
| 1999 | 76,000 An | +0.0% |
| 2000 | 76,000 An | +0.0% |
| 2001 | 76,000 An | +0.0% |
| 2002 | 76,000 An | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 76,000 An | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 76,000 An | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 76,000 An | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 88,000 An | +15.8% |
| 2007 | 91,000 An | +3.4% |
| 2008 | 92,000 An | +1.1% |
| 2009 | 92,000 An | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 92,000 An | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 94,000 An | +2.2% |
| 2012 | 95,000 An | +1.1% |
| 2013 | 98,000 An | +3.2% |
| 2014 | 100,000 An | +2.0% |
| 2015 | 100,698 An | +0.7% |
| 2016 | 100,936 An | +0.2% |
| 2017 | 99,208 An | -1.7% |
| 2018 | 99,843 An | +0.6% |
| 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 | 39,111 An | 25,000 An | 53,000 An | 9 |
| 1970s | 22,350 An | 21,000 An | 24,000 An | 10 |
| 1980s | 76,860 An | 30,000 An | 99,600 An | 10 |
| 1990s | 77,800 An | 74,000 An | 80,000 An | 10 |
| 2000s | 81,900 An | 76,000 An | 92,000 An | 10 |
| 2010s | 97,966 An | 92,000 An | 100,936 An | 10 |
| 2020s | 93,710 An | 85,753 An | 99,075 An | 5 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 13.97 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0227 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 1,476 current US$ per person (2025)
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- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Australia?
- Horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Australia 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?
- The highest recorded value was 100,936 An in 2016.
- What is the lowest horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Australia?
- The lowest recorded value was 21,000 An in 1976.
- How does Australia rank for horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered?
- Australia ranks 11th out of 83 countries with data for 2024.
- Is horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in Australia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 14.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Australia 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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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.