Meat of asses, fresh or chilled — Production 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...
What the numbers show
Meat of asses, fresh or chilled — Production is currently reported for 12 countries. The highest value is 47,876 t in China; the lowest is 0 t in Bulgaria.
The median across all reporting countries is 2,551 t, and the mean is 10,222 t.
Over the past decade 6 countries rose and 5 fell. The largest increase was in Mauritania (up 67.1%), and the largest decrease in Argentina (down 79.8%).
Meat of asses, fresh or chilled — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 47,876 t | 2024 | down 75.2% | volatile |
| 1 | China, mainland | 47,876 t | 2024 | down 75.2% | volatile |
| 3 | Niger | 13,375 t | 2024 | up 46.4% | volatile |
| 4 | Mauritania | 3,988 t | 2024 | up 67.1% | rising |
| 5 | Mali | 3,936 t | 2024 | up 37.6% | rising |
| 6 | Senegal | 3,267 t | 2024 | up 6.6% | rising |
| 7 | Burkina Faso | 1,835 t | 2024 | up 22.3% | volatile |
| 8 | Spain | 427.3 t | 2017 | up 0.9% | volatile |
| 9 | Lesotho | 41.62 t | 2024 | down 30.6% | falling |
| 10 | Argentina | 35 t | 2024 | down 79.8% | falling |
| 11 | Kazakhstan | 5.85 t | 2024 | down 8.3% | volatile |
| 12 | Bulgaria | 0 t | 2017 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 74,774 t
- Asia 47,882 t
- Eastern Asia 47,876 t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 26,443 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 26,443 t
- Africa 26,443 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 26,443 t
- Western Africa 26,402 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 19,194 t
- European Union (27) 413.54 t
- Europe 413.54 t
- Southern Europe 413.54 t
- Southern Africa 41.62 t
- Americas 35 t
- South America 35 t
- Central Asia 5.85 t
- Eastern Europe 0 t
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.