Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Malta
Malta: Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 306 An in 2017. ▼ Falling
Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Malta, 1961–2017
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in An.
Analysis
Malta recorded 306 An for horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in 2017.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 2.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Malta peaked at 932 An in 1973 and was at its lowest, 202 An, in 2013.
That places Malta 64th out of 83 countries with data for 2017, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 57 years of available data.
Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Malta, year by year
| Year | An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 500 An | — |
| 1962 | 500 An | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 488 An | -2.4% |
| 1964 | 548 An | +12.3% |
| 1965 | 519 An | -5.3% |
| 1966 | 478 An | -7.9% |
| 1967 | 336 An | -29.7% |
| 1968 | 763 An | +127.1% |
| 1969 | 838 An | +9.8% |
| 1970 | 836 An | -0.2% |
| 1971 | 851 An | +1.8% |
| 1972 | 856 An | +0.6% |
| 1973 | 932 An | +8.9% |
| 1974 | 715 An | -23.3% |
| 1975 | 574 An | -19.7% |
| 1976 | 434 An | -24.4% |
| 1977 | 416 An | -4.1% |
| 1978 | 478 An | +14.9% |
| 1979 | 490 An | +2.5% |
| 1980 | 471 An | -3.9% |
| 1981 | 422 An | -10.4% |
| 1982 | 491 An | +16.4% |
| 1983 | 554 An | +12.8% |
| 1984 | 540 An | -2.5% |
| 1985 | 451 An | -16.5% |
| 1986 | 480 An | +6.4% |
| 1987 | 500 An | +4.2% |
| 1988 | 520 An | +4.0% |
| 1989 | 530 An | +1.9% |
| 1990 | 512 An | -3.4% |
| 1991 | 500 An | -2.3% |
| 1992 | 500 An | +0.0% |
| 1993 | 300 An | -40.0% |
| 1994 | 270 An | -10.0% |
| 1995 | 228 An | -15.6% |
| 1996 | 218 An | -4.4% |
| 1997 | 257 An | +17.9% |
| 1998 | 268 An | +4.3% |
| 1999 | 325 An | +21.3% |
| 2000 | 361 An | +11.1% |
| 2001 | 379 An | +5.0% |
| 2002 | 349 An | -7.9% |
| 2003 | 321 An | -8.0% |
| 2004 | 340 An | +5.9% |
| 2005 | 359 An | +5.6% |
| 2006 | 349 An | -2.8% |
| 2007 | 298 An | -14.6% |
| 2008 | 300 An | +0.7% |
| 2009 | 300 An | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 300 An | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 310 An | +3.3% |
| 2012 | 294 An | -5.2% |
| 2013 | 202 An | -31.3% |
| 2014 | 301 An | +49.0% |
| 2015 | 300 An | -0.3% |
| 2016 | 306 An | +2.0% |
| 2017 | 306 An | +0.0% |
Malta compared with similar countries
- Malta's 306 An is below the median for high income countries, which is 1,210 An, 25% of the median. (32 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Malta changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | +127.1% | 336 An | 763 An |
| 2014 | +49.0% | 202 An | 301 An |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 552.22 An | 336 An | 838 An | 9 |
| 1970s | 658.2 An | 416 An | 932 An | 10 |
| 1980s | 495.9 An | 422 An | 554 An | 10 |
| 1990s | 337.8 An | 218 An | 512 An | 10 |
| 2000s | 335.6 An | 298 An | 379 An | 10 |
| 2010s | 289.88 An | 202 An | 310 An | 8 |
Countries ranked near Malta
More agriculture & rural data for Malta
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 6.05 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0047 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 224.75 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.3 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.0432 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 0.5% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 0.5% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.2% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Malta?
- Horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Malta was 306 An in 2017, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Malta?
- The highest recorded value was 932 An in 1973.
- What is the lowest horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Malta?
- The lowest recorded value was 202 An in 2013.
- How does Malta rank for horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered?
- Malta ranks 64th out of 83 countries with data for 2017.
- Is horse meat, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in Malta?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Malta 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.