Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Lesotho
Lesotho: Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 338 An in 2024. ▲ Rising
Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Lesotho, 1990–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in An.
Analysis
Lesotho recorded 338 An for horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 6.1% on the previous year and up 51.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Lesotho peaked at 731 An in 2016 and was at its lowest, 187 An, in 2015.
Lesotho ranks 62nd of 83 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 35 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 304.3 An | 266 An | 349 An | 10 |
| 2000s | 278.6 An | 252 An | 326 An | 10 |
| 2010s | 302.2 An | 187 An | 731 An | 10 |
| 2020s | 309.4 An | 196 An | 393 An | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Lesotho
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 5.38 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0649 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 70.63 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.6715 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0005 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5533 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 6.49 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 6.49 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 5.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Lesotho?
- Horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Lesotho was 338 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 Lesotho?
- The highest recorded value was 731 An in 2016.
- What is the lowest horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Lesotho?
- The lowest recorded value was 187 An in 2015.
- How does Lesotho rank for horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered?
- Lesotho ranks 62nd out of 83 countries with data for 2024.
- Is horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in Lesotho?
- Over the last ten years it is up 51.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Lesotho 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.