Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Belgium
Belgium: Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 1,518 An in 2024. ▼ Falling
Horse meat, fresh or chilled — 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 horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Belgium is 1,518 An, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 7.3% on the previous year and down 81.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Belgium peaked at 21,400 An in 2001 and was at its lowest, 1,415 An, in 2023.
That places Belgium 52nd out of 83 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 21 years of available data.
Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Belgium, year by year
| Year | An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 20,400 An | — |
| 2001 | 21,400 An | +4.9% |
| 2002 | 14,800 An | -30.8% |
| 2003 | 12,677 An | -14.3% |
| 2004 | 11,655 An | -8.1% |
| 2005 | 11,039 An | -5.3% |
| 2006 | 10,460 An | -5.2% |
| 2007 | 10,466 An | +0.1% |
| 2008 | 9,209 An | -12.0% |
| 2009 | 9,000 An | -2.3% |
| 2010 | 8,926 An | -0.8% |
| 2011 | 9,613 An | +7.7% |
| 2012 | 9,140 An | -4.9% |
| 2013 | 8,734 An | -4.4% |
| 2014 | 8,246 An | -5.6% |
| 2015 | 8,463 An | +2.6% |
| 2016 | 6,054 An | -28.5% |
| 2017 | 5,585 An | -7.7% |
| 2018 | 5,895 An | +5.6% |
| 2023 | 1,415 An | -76.0% |
| 2024 | 1,518 An | +7.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 13,111 An | 9,000 An | 21,400 An | 10 |
| 2010s | 7,851 An | 5,585 An | 9,613 An | 9 |
| 2020s | 1,466 An | 1,415 An | 1,518 An | 2 |
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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 horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Belgium?
- Horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Belgium was 1,518 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 Belgium?
- The highest recorded value was 21,400 An in 2001.
- What is the lowest horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Belgium?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,415 An in 2023.
- How does Belgium rank for horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered?
- Belgium ranks 52nd out of 83 countries with data for 2024.
- Is horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in Belgium?
- Over the last ten years it is down 81.6%. 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 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.