Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight in Belgium
Belgium: Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight was 317 kg/An in 2018. ▲ Rising
Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight in Belgium, 2000–2018
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/An.
Analysis
Belgium recorded 317 kg/An for horse meat, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight in 2018.
The figure is up 2.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, horse meat, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight in Belgium peaked at 330 kg/An in 2010 and was at its lowest, 192 kg/An, in 2006.
Belgium ranks 5th of 82 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 19 years of available data.
Horse meat, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight in Belgium, year by year
| Year | kg/An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 289 kg/An | — |
| 2001 | 280 kg/An | -3.1% |
| 2002 | 284 kg/An | +1.4% |
| 2003 | 285 kg/An | +0.4% |
| 2004 | 294 kg/An | +3.2% |
| 2005 | 295 kg/An | +0.3% |
| 2006 | 192 kg/An | -34.9% |
| 2007 | 218 kg/An | +13.5% |
| 2008 | 308 kg/An | +41.3% |
| 2009 | 225 kg/An | -26.9% |
| 2010 | 330 kg/An | +46.7% |
| 2011 | 328 kg/An | -0.6% |
| 2012 | 316 kg/An | -3.7% |
| 2013 | 306 kg/An | -3.2% |
| 2014 | 308 kg/An | +0.7% |
| 2015 | 308 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 313 kg/An | +1.6% |
| 2017 | 317 kg/An | +1.3% |
| 2018 | 317 kg/An | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 267 kg/An | 192 kg/An | 308 kg/An | 10 |
| 2010s | 315.89 kg/An | 306 kg/An | 330 kg/An | 9 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is horse meat, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight in Belgium?
- Horse meat, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight in Belgium was 317 kg/An in 2018, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest horse meat, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight recorded in Belgium?
- The highest recorded value was 330 kg/An in 2010.
- What is the lowest horse meat, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight recorded in Belgium?
- The lowest recorded value was 192 kg/An in 2006.
- How does Belgium rank for horse meat, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight?
- Belgium ranks 5th out of 82 countries with data for 2018.
- Is horse meat, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight rising or falling in Belgium?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- 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 — Yield/Carcass Weight. 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.