Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Production in Australia and New Zealand
Australia and New Zealand: Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Production was 20,817 t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Production in Australia and New Zealand, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
Australia and New Zealand recorded 20,817 t for horse meat, fresh or chilled — production in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 6.2% on the previous year and down 26.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, horse meat, fresh or chilled — production in Australia and New Zealand peaked at 28,608 t in 2015 and was at its lowest, 6,390 t, in 1976.
Australia and New Zealand ranks 9th of 83 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Production in Australia and New Zealand, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 15,180 t | — |
| 1962 | 14,985 t | -1.3% |
| 1963 | 12,745 t | -14.9% |
| 1964 | 12,270 t | -3.7% |
| 1965 | 10,310 t | -16.0% |
| 1966 | 11,778 t | +14.2% |
| 1967 | 9,453 t | -19.7% |
| 1968 | 7,459 t | -21.1% |
| 1969 | 8,460 t | +13.4% |
| 1970 | 6,670 t | -21.2% |
| 1971 | 6,670 t | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 6,670 t | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 6,810 t | +2.1% |
| 1974 | 6,950 t | +2.1% |
| 1975 | 6,950 t | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 6,390 t | -8.1% |
| 1977 | 6,670 t | +4.4% |
| 1978 | 6,670 t | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 7,230 t | +8.4% |
| 1980 | 8,910 t | +23.2% |
| 1981 | 21,706 t | +143.6% |
| 1982 | 21,341 t | -1.7% |
| 1983 | 23,385 t | +9.6% |
| 1984 | 23,385 t | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 23,402 t | +0.1% |
| 1986 | 28,398 t | +21.3% |
| 1987 | 28,568 t | +0.6% |
| 1988 | 22,690 t | -20.6% |
| 1989 | 19,050 t | -16.0% |
| 1990 | 21,570 t | +13.2% |
| 1991 | 22,529 t | +4.4% |
| 1992 | 22,818 t | +1.3% |
| 1993 | 24,213 t | +6.1% |
| 1994 | 24,301 t | +0.4% |
| 1995 | 24,291 t | -0.0% |
| 1996 | 23,332 t | -3.9% |
| 1997 | 23,098 t | -1.0% |
| 1998 | 22,378 t | -3.1% |
| 1999 | 22,454 t | +0.3% |
| 2000 | 22,371 t | -0.4% |
| 2001 | 21,841 t | -2.4% |
| 2002 | 21,932 t | +0.4% |
| 2003 | 21,643 t | -1.3% |
| 2004 | 21,537 t | -0.5% |
| 2005 | 21,672 t | +0.6% |
| 2006 | 25,274 t | +16.6% |
| 2007 | 26,078 t | +3.2% |
| 2008 | 26,061 t | -0.1% |
| 2009 | 26,512 t | +1.7% |
| 2010 | 26,201 t | -1.2% |
| 2011 | 26,816 t | +2.3% |
| 2012 | 27,082 t | +1.0% |
| 2013 | 27,845 t | +2.8% |
| 2014 | 28,390 t | +2.0% |
| 2015 | 28,608 t | +0.8% |
| 2016 | 28,484 t | -0.4% |
| 2017 | 27,814 t | -2.4% |
| 2018 | 27,956 t | +0.5% |
| 2019 | 27,994 t | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 27,741 t | -0.9% |
| 2021 | 25,514 t | -8.0% |
| 2022 | 23,793 t | -6.7% |
| 2023 | 22,189 t | -6.7% |
| 2024 | 20,817 t | -6.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 11,404 t | 7,459 t | 15,180 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,768 t | 6,390 t | 7,230 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 22,084 t | 8,910 t | 28,568 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 23,098 t | 21,570 t | 24,301 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 23,492 t | 21,537 t | 26,512 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 27,719 t | 26,201 t | 28,608 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 24,011 t | 20,817 t | 27,741 t | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is horse meat, fresh or chilled — production in Australia and New Zealand?
- Horse meat, fresh or chilled — production in Australia and New Zealand was 20,817 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest horse meat, fresh or chilled — production recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The highest recorded value was 28,608 t in 2015.
- What is the lowest horse meat, fresh or chilled — production recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,390 t in 1976.
- How does Australia and New Zealand rank for horse meat, fresh or chilled — production?
- Australia and New Zealand ranks 9th out of 83 countries with data for 2024.
- Is horse meat, fresh or chilled — production rising or falling in Australia and New Zealand?
- Over the last ten years it is down 26.7%. 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 — Production. 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.