Meat of buffalo, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Meat of buffalo, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 78,761 An in 2024. ▲ Rising
Meat of buffalo, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Sri Lanka, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in An.
Analysis
Sri Lanka recorded 78,761 An for meat of buffalo, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 8.5% on the previous year and down 33.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat of buffalo, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Sri Lanka peaked at 117,611 An in 2014 and was at its lowest, 36,000 An, in 1973.
That places Sri Lanka 12th out of 26 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Meat of buffalo, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Sri Lanka, year by year
| Year | An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 39,000 An | — |
| 1962 | 40,000 An | +2.6% |
| 1963 | 43,000 An | +7.5% |
| 1964 | 50,000 An | +16.3% |
| 1965 | 53,000 An | +6.0% |
| 1966 | 42,000 An | -20.8% |
| 1967 | 38,000 An | -9.5% |
| 1968 | 39,000 An | +2.6% |
| 1969 | 38,000 An | -2.6% |
| 1970 | 37,000 An | -2.6% |
| 1971 | 37,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 37,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 36,000 An | -2.7% |
| 1974 | 37,000 An | +2.8% |
| 1975 | 41,000 An | +10.8% |
| 1976 | 43,000 An | +4.9% |
| 1977 | 40,000 An | -7.0% |
| 1978 | 41,000 An | +2.5% |
| 1979 | 42,000 An | +2.4% |
| 1980 | 42,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 45,000 An | +7.1% |
| 1982 | 44,000 An | -2.2% |
| 1983 | 46,000 An | +4.5% |
| 1984 | 48,000 An | +4.3% |
| 1985 | 49,000 An | +2.1% |
| 1986 | 48,000 An | -2.0% |
| 1987 | 50,000 An | +4.2% |
| 1988 | 48,000 An | -4.0% |
| 1989 | 49,000 An | +2.1% |
| 1990 | 70,000 An | +42.9% |
| 1991 | 81,461 An | +16.4% |
| 1992 | 81,624 An | +0.2% |
| 1993 | 81,793 An | +0.2% |
| 1994 | 81,968 An | +0.2% |
| 1995 | 82,304 An | +0.4% |
| 1996 | 82,658 An | +0.4% |
| 1997 | 83,011 An | +0.4% |
| 1998 | 83,364 An | +0.4% |
| 1999 | 83,717 An | +0.4% |
| 2000 | 84,071 An | +0.4% |
| 2001 | 84,424 An | +0.4% |
| 2002 | 84,770 An | +0.4% |
| 2003 | 83,543 An | -1.4% |
| 2004 | 83,936 An | +0.5% |
| 2005 | 84,493 An | +0.7% |
| 2006 | 85,048 An | +0.7% |
| 2007 | 85,602 An | +0.7% |
| 2008 | 86,153 An | +0.6% |
| 2009 | 86,699 An | +0.6% |
| 2010 | 87,240 An | +0.6% |
| 2011 | 88,062 An | +0.9% |
| 2012 | 88,910 An | +1.0% |
| 2013 | 94,779 An | +6.6% |
| 2014 | 117,611 An | +24.1% |
| 2015 | 85,398 An | -27.4% |
| 2016 | 85,133 An | -0.3% |
| 2017 | 79,115 An | -7.1% |
| 2018 | 79,115 An | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 79,292 An | +0.2% |
| 2020 | 78,496 An | -1.0% |
| 2021 | 73,982 An | -5.8% |
| 2022 | 73,363 An | -0.8% |
| 2023 | 72,566 An | -1.1% |
| 2024 | 78,761 An | +8.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 42,444 An | 38,000 An | 53,000 An | 9 |
| 1970s | 39,100 An | 36,000 An | 43,000 An | 10 |
| 1980s | 46,900 An | 42,000 An | 50,000 An | 10 |
| 1990s | 81,190 An | 70,000 An | 83,717 An | 10 |
| 2000s | 84,874 An | 83,543 An | 86,699 An | 10 |
| 2010s | 88,466 An | 79,115 An | 117,611 An | 10 |
| 2020s | 75,434 An | 72,566 An | 78,761 An | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is meat of buffalo, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Sri Lanka?
- Meat of buffalo, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Sri Lanka was 78,761 An in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest meat of buffalo, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The highest recorded value was 117,611 An in 2014.
- What is the lowest meat of buffalo, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The lowest recorded value was 36,000 An in 1973.
- How does Sri Lanka rank for meat of buffalo, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered?
- Sri Lanka ranks 12th out of 26 countries with data for 2024.
- Is meat of buffalo, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in Sri Lanka?
- Over the last ten years it is down 33.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Sri Lanka data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Meat of buffalo, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered. 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.