Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Production in Middle Africa
Middle Africa: Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Production was 1,346 t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Production in Middle Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
Middle Africa recorded 1,346 t for horse meat, fresh or chilled — production in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 2.8% on the previous year and up 80.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, horse meat, fresh or chilled — production in Middle Africa peaked at 1,346 t in 2024 and was at its lowest, 301 t, in 1977.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Production in Middle Africa, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 750 t | — |
| 1962 | 802 t | +6.9% |
| 1963 | 841 t | +4.9% |
| 1964 | 750 t | -10.8% |
| 1965 | 724 t | -3.5% |
| 1966 | 762 t | +5.2% |
| 1967 | 762 t | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 775 t | +1.7% |
| 1969 | 775 t | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 697 t | -10.1% |
| 1971 | 645 t | -7.5% |
| 1972 | 556 t | -13.8% |
| 1973 | 530 t | -4.7% |
| 1974 | 465 t | -12.3% |
| 1975 | 400 t | -14.0% |
| 1976 | 337 t | -15.8% |
| 1977 | 301 t | -10.7% |
| 1978 | 314 t | +4.3% |
| 1979 | 315 t | +0.3% |
| 1980 | 317 t | +0.6% |
| 1981 | 397 t | +25.2% |
| 1982 | 397 t | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 413 t | +4.0% |
| 1984 | 413 t | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 414 t | +0.2% |
| 1986 | 390 t | -5.8% |
| 1987 | 366 t | -6.2% |
| 1988 | 329 t | -10.1% |
| 1989 | 332 t | +0.9% |
| 1990 | 334 t | +0.6% |
| 1991 | 352 t | +5.4% |
| 1992 | 357 t | +1.4% |
| 1993 | 357 t | +0.0% |
| 1994 | 367 t | +2.8% |
| 1995 | 378.5 t | +3.1% |
| 1996 | 378.5 t | +0.0% |
| 1997 | 385 t | +1.7% |
| 1998 | 390 t | +1.3% |
| 1999 | 401.5 t | +2.9% |
| 2000 | 406.5 t | +1.2% |
| 2001 | 521.5 t | +28.3% |
| 2002 | 533 t | +2.2% |
| 2003 | 543 t | +1.9% |
| 2004 | 418 t | -23.0% |
| 2005 | 436.9 t | +4.5% |
| 2006 | 453.5 t | +3.8% |
| 2007 | 577.5 t | +27.3% |
| 2008 | 634 t | +9.8% |
| 2009 | 673 t | +6.2% |
| 2010 | 716 t | +6.4% |
| 2011 | 729 t | +1.8% |
| 2012 | 734.21 t | +0.7% |
| 2013 | 738.46 t | +0.6% |
| 2014 | 746.81 t | +1.1% |
| 2015 | 727.26 t | -2.6% |
| 2016 | 1,215 t | +67.1% |
| 2017 | 1,234 t | +1.5% |
| 2018 | 1,134 t | -8.1% |
| 2019 | 1,161 t | +2.4% |
| 2020 | 1,223 t | +5.4% |
| 2021 | 1,230 t | +0.5% |
| 2022 | 1,267 t | +3.0% |
| 2023 | 1,310 t | +3.4% |
| 2024 | 1,346 t | +2.8% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 771.22 t | 724 t | 841 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 456 t | 301 t | 697 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 376.8 t | 317 t | 414 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 370.05 t | 334 t | 401.5 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 519.69 t | 406.5 t | 673 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 913.6 t | 716 t | 1,234 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,275 t | 1,223 t | 1,346 t | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is horse meat, fresh or chilled — production in Middle Africa?
- Horse meat, fresh or chilled — production in Middle Africa was 1,346 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 Middle Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 1,346 t in 2024.
- What is the lowest horse meat, fresh or chilled — production recorded in Middle Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 301 t in 1977.
- How does Middle Africa rank for horse meat, fresh or chilled — production?
- Middle Africa ranks 4th out of 8 regions with data for 2024.
- Is horse meat, fresh or chilled — production rising or falling in Middle Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 80.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Middle Africa 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.