Horse meat, fresh or chilled β€” Yield/Carcass Weight by country

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...

Countries reporting
82
Highest
448 kg/An
Germany
Lowest
80 kg/An
Cuba
Median
188 kg/An
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
6,368

What the numbers show

Horse meat, fresh or chilled β€” Yield/Carcass Weight is currently reported for 82 countries. The highest value is 448 kg/An in Germany; the lowest is 80 kg/An in Cuba.

The median across all reporting countries is 188 kg/An, and the mean is 196.66 kg/An.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 6.

Over the past decade 38 countries rose and 25 fell. The largest increase was in Germany (up 69.7%), and the largest decrease in Yugoslav SFR (down 34.2%).

Horse meat, fresh or chilled β€” Yield/Carcass Weight: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Germany 448 kg/An 2022 up 69.7% rising
2 Japan 421 kg/An 2024 up 5.5% rising
3 Poland 410 kg/An 2019 up 16.5% rising
4 Lithuania 362 kg/An 2019 up 63.1% rising
5 Belgium 317 kg/An 2018 up 2.9% rising
6 Slovak Republic 300 kg/An 2017 unchanged falling
6 Belgium-Luxembourg 300 kg/An 1999 up 22.4% falling
8 Bosnia and Herzegovina 286 kg/An 2022 up 43.0% rising
8 Finland 286 kg/An 2024 up 2.1% flat
10 France 284 kg/An 2017 down 1.0% falling
10 Latvia 284 kg/An 2019 up 28.5% flat
12 Hungary 277 kg/An 2018 up 6.9% rising
13 Spain 276 kg/An 2024 up 15.0% rising
13 Sweden 276 kg/An 2024 up 0.7% falling
15 Norway 273 kg/An 2024 down 1.1% flat
16 New Zealand 269 kg/An 2017 up 1.5% rising
17 Ireland 257 kg/An 2017 up 2.8% falling
18 Italy 255 kg/An 2019 down 0.4% rising
19 Denmark 253 kg/An 2019 down 3.8% falling
20 Serbia 244 kg/An 2024 up 1.7% rising
21 Australia 243 kg/An 2024 down 13.2% flat
21 Australia and New Zealand 243 kg/An 2024 down 13.2% flat
23 Switzerland 242 kg/An 2024 up 1.3% falling
24 Uruguay 230 kg/An 2024 up 4.5% rising
25 Argentina 228 kg/An 2024 up 15.7% rising
25 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 228 kg/An 2017 up 1.3% falling
27 Ukraine 226 kg/An 2024 up 25.6% rising
27 RΓ©union 226 kg/An 2006 up 13.0% rising
29 Slovenia 219 kg/An 2019 down 7.2% flat
30 Austria 213 kg/An 2019 up 3.4% falling
31 Chile 210 kg/An 2024 up 5.5% rising
32 Czechia 208 kg/An 2024 down 18.4% falling
33 Lesotho 207 kg/An 2024 up 3.5% flat
34 Portugal 206 kg/An 2024 up 9.6% rising
35 Haiti 200 kg/An 2024 unchanged flat
35 Luxembourg 200 kg/An 2023 down 22.5% flat
35 Serbia and Montenegro 200 kg/An 2005 unchanged flat
35 Czechoslovakia 200 kg/An 1992 unchanged flat
39 Malta 193 kg/An 2017 up 4.3% rising
40 China 191 kg/An 2024 up 51.6% rising
40 China, mainland 191 kg/An 2024 up 51.6% rising
42 Uzbekistan 185 kg/An 2024 down 9.8% rising
43 South Africa 181 kg/An 2024 down 9.5% falling
43 Russian Federation 181 kg/An 2024 down 3.7% flat
45 Greece 180 kg/An 1990 unchanged flat
45 Kazakhstan 180 kg/An 2024 up 4.0% rising
45 Romania 180 kg/An 1990 unchanged flat
48 Canada 178 kg/An 2024 down 16.0% falling
49 Bulgaria 175 kg/An 2006 up 57.7% rising
50 Indonesia 170 kg/An 2024 up 2.4% rising
50 Madagascar 170 kg/An 2024 down 2.9% rising
52 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 154 kg/An 2024 unchanged flat
53 Burkina Faso 152 kg/An 2024 unchanged rising
54 Jamaica 150 kg/An 2024 unchanged flat
54 Papua New Guinea 150 kg/An 2024 unchanged flat
54 Vanuatu 150 kg/An 2024 unchanged flat
57 Yugoslav SFR 146 kg/An 1991 down 34.2% rising
58 Algeria 133 kg/An 2024 up 2.3% rising
59 Belarus 132 kg/An 2024 up 10.0% rising
60 Brazil 131 kg/An 2024 up 0.8% rising
61 Mexico 129 kg/An 2024 down 2.3% flat
62 Morocco 128 kg/An 2024 up 2.4% flat
63 Guatemala 126 kg/An 2024 unchanged flat
64 Colombia 125 kg/An 2024 unchanged flat
64 Honduras 125 kg/An 2024 unchanged flat
64 Mauritania 125 kg/An 2024 down 16.7% falling
64 Senegal 125 kg/An 2024 unchanged flat
64 Guadeloupe 125 kg/An 2006 unchanged flat
69 Kyrgyzstan 124 kg/An 2024 down 15.1% falling
70 Niger 122 kg/An 2024 down 6.2% falling
71 Malaysia 120 kg/An 2024 unchanged flat
72 Iceland 119 kg/An 2024 down 10.5% falling
73 Mongolia 116 kg/An 2024 up 39.8% falling
74 Paraguay 112 kg/An 2024 down 5.1% falling
75 Nicaragua 107 kg/An 2023 down 17.1% rising
76 Cameroon 102 kg/An 2024 down 21.5% falling
77 Mali 100 kg/An 2024 unchanged flat
77 Chad 100 kg/An 2024 unchanged flat
79 Philippines 88 kg/An 2024 down 15.4% falling
80 Georgia 87 kg/An 2024 up 8.8% falling
81 Tunisia 81 kg/An 2024 up 1.2% rising
82 Cuba 80 kg/An 2024 down 11.1% falling

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Horse meat, fresh or chilled β€” Yield/Carcass Weight
Unit
kg/An
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
116 places, 6,368 data points, 1961–2024
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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.