Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Production in Belgium
Belgium: Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Production was 700 t in 2022. ▼ Falling
Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Production in Belgium, 2000–2022
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
The most recent figure for horse meat, fresh or chilled — production in Belgium is 700 t, measured in 2022. That is the lowest value across all 20 years on record.
The figure is down 75.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, horse meat, fresh or chilled — production in Belgium peaked at 6,000 t in 2001 and was at its lowest, 700 t, in 2022.
Belgium ranks 43rd of 83 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 20 years of available data.
Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Production in Belgium, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 5,900 t | — |
| 2001 | 6,000 t | +1.7% |
| 2002 | 4,200 t | -30.0% |
| 2003 | 3,618 t | -13.9% |
| 2004 | 3,432 t | -5.1% |
| 2005 | 3,252 t | -5.2% |
| 2006 | 2,010 t | -38.2% |
| 2007 | 2,282 t | +13.5% |
| 2008 | 2,840 t | +24.5% |
| 2009 | 2,023 t | -28.8% |
| 2010 | 2,943 t | +45.5% |
| 2011 | 3,153 t | +7.1% |
| 2012 | 2,889 t | -8.4% |
| 2013 | 2,670 t | -7.6% |
| 2014 | 2,542 t | -4.8% |
| 2015 | 2,610 t | +2.7% |
| 2016 | 1,893 t | -27.5% |
| 2017 | 1,772 t | -6.4% |
| 2018 | 1,868 t | +5.4% |
| 2022 | 700 t | -62.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 3,556 t | 2,010 t | 6,000 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,482 t | 1,772 t | 3,153 t | 9 |
| 2020s | 700 t | 700 t | 700 t | 1 |
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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 — production in Belgium?
- Horse meat, fresh or chilled — production in Belgium was 700 t in 2022, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest horse meat, fresh or chilled — production recorded in Belgium?
- The highest recorded value was 6,000 t in 2001.
- What is the lowest horse meat, fresh or chilled — production recorded in Belgium?
- The lowest recorded value was 700 t in 2022.
- How does Belgium rank for horse meat, fresh or chilled — production?
- Belgium ranks 43rd out of 83 countries with data for 2022.
- Is horse meat, fresh or chilled — production rising or falling in Belgium?
- Over the last ten years it is down 75.8%. 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 — Production. 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.