Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Production in Poland
Poland: Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Production was 8,700 t in 2019. ▼ Falling
Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Production in Poland, 1961–2019
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 Poland is 8,700 t, measured in 2019.
The figure is down 5.4% on the previous year and down 38.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, horse meat, fresh or chilled — production in Poland peaked at 25,900 t in 1985 and was at its lowest, 3,600 t, in 1990.
Poland ranks 15th of 83 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 59 years of available data.
Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Production in Poland, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 13,500 t | — |
| 1962 | 10,100 t | -25.2% |
| 1963 | 9,000 t | -10.9% |
| 1964 | 11,000 t | +22.2% |
| 1965 | 6,600 t | -40.0% |
| 1966 | 5,500 t | -16.7% |
| 1967 | 8,600 t | +56.4% |
| 1968 | 10,800 t | +25.6% |
| 1969 | 12,700 t | +17.6% |
| 1970 | 19,100 t | +50.4% |
| 1971 | 19,300 t | +1.0% |
| 1972 | 15,800 t | -18.1% |
| 1973 | 13,400 t | -15.2% |
| 1974 | 15,200 t | +13.4% |
| 1975 | 15,400 t | +1.3% |
| 1976 | 18,500 t | +20.1% |
| 1977 | 20,700 t | +11.9% |
| 1978 | 20,100 t | -2.9% |
| 1979 | 20,800 t | +3.5% |
| 1980 | 21,600 t | +3.8% |
| 1981 | 13,100 t | -39.4% |
| 1982 | 11,100 t | -15.3% |
| 1983 | 18,100 t | +63.1% |
| 1984 | 21,200 t | +17.1% |
| 1985 | 25,900 t | +22.2% |
| 1986 | 20,200 t | -22.0% |
| 1987 | 17,200 t | -14.9% |
| 1988 | 12,600 t | -26.7% |
| 1989 | 9,400 t | -25.4% |
| 1990 | 3,600 t | -61.7% |
| 1991 | 4,100 t | +13.9% |
| 1992 | 3,900 t | -4.9% |
| 1993 | 4,300 t | +10.3% |
| 1994 | 6,800 t | +58.1% |
| 1995 | 4,200 t | -38.2% |
| 1996 | 4,600 t | +9.5% |
| 1997 | 5,200 t | +13.0% |
| 1998 | 7,100 t | +36.5% |
| 1999 | 9,100 t | +28.2% |
| 2000 | 11,200 t | +23.1% |
| 2001 | 10,300 t | -8.0% |
| 2002 | 8,000 t | -22.3% |
| 2003 | 7,400 t | -7.5% |
| 2004 | 7,500 t | +1.4% |
| 2005 | 10,000 t | +33.3% |
| 2006 | 10,600 t | +6.0% |
| 2007 | 12,600 t | +18.9% |
| 2008 | 10,600 t | -15.9% |
| 2009 | 14,100 t | +33.0% |
| 2010 | 14,400 t | +2.1% |
| 2011 | 12,600 t | -12.5% |
| 2012 | 11,900 t | -5.6% |
| 2013 | 11,000 t | -7.6% |
| 2014 | 7,800 t | -29.1% |
| 2015 | 9,900 t | +26.9% |
| 2016 | 9,600 t | -3.0% |
| 2017 | 8,600 t | -10.4% |
| 2018 | 9,200 t | +7.0% |
| 2019 | 8,700 t | -5.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 9,756 t | 5,500 t | 13,500 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 17,830 t | 13,400 t | 20,800 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 17,040 t | 9,400 t | 25,900 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,290 t | 3,600 t | 9,100 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 10,230 t | 7,400 t | 14,100 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 10,370 t | 7,800 t | 14,400 t | 10 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is horse meat, fresh or chilled — production in Poland?
- Horse meat, fresh or chilled — production in Poland was 8,700 t in 2019, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest horse meat, fresh or chilled — production recorded in Poland?
- The highest recorded value was 25,900 t in 1985.
- What is the lowest horse meat, fresh or chilled — production recorded in Poland?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,600 t in 1990.
- How does Poland rank for horse meat, fresh or chilled — production?
- Poland ranks 15th out of 83 countries with data for 2019.
- Is horse meat, fresh or chilled — production rising or falling in Poland?
- Over the last ten years it is down 38.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Poland 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.