Meat of buffalo, 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 buffalo, fresh or chilled — Production is currently reported for 26 countries. The highest value is 4.57 million t in India; the lowest is 0 t in China, Macao SAR.
The median across all reporting countries is 10,476 t, and the mean is 305,600 t.
Over the past decade 13 countries rose and 12 fell. The largest increase was in Colombia (up 279.6%), and the largest decrease in Singapore (down 100.0%).
Meat of buffalo, fresh or chilled — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | 4.57 million t | 2024 | up 14.1% | volatile |
| 2 | Pakistan | 1.27 million t | 2024 | up 35.4% | volatile |
| 3 | China | 779,459 t | 2024 | up 26.5% | volatile |
| 4 | China, mainland | 779,090 t | 2024 | up 26.5% | volatile |
| 5 | Egypt | 200,000 t | 2024 | down 47.4% | volatile |
| 6 | Nepal | 138,271 t | 2024 | down 20.5% | volatile |
| 6 | Türkiye | 13,781 t | 2024 | up 175.4% | volatile |
| 7 | Philippines | 64,789 t | 2024 | down 35.3% | volatile |
| 8 | Myanmar | 28,981 t | 2024 | down 34.0% | rising |
| 9 | Indonesia | 21,597 t | 2024 | down 38.7% | falling |
| 10 | Italy | 21,277 t | 2019 | up 270.5% | volatile |
| 11 | Thailand | 18,144 t | 2024 | down 35.9% | volatile |
| 12 | Colombia | 12,053 t | 2024 | up 279.6% | volatile |
| 13 | Sri Lanka | 8,900 t | 2024 | down 33.0% | rising |
| 14 | Bangladesh | 7,098 t | 2024 | up 6.9% | rising |
| 15 | Cambodia | 6,998 t | 2024 | down 19.8% | rising |
| 16 | Iraq | 5,868 t | 2024 | up 20.1% | rising |
| 17 | Malaysia | 2,928 t | 2024 | down 58.5% | falling |
| 18 | Brunei Darussalam | 426.02 t | 2024 | up 52.0% | volatile |
| 19 | Greece | 408 t | 2023 | up 99.3% | volatile |
| 20 | China, Taiwan Province of | 368.93 t | 2024 | down 22.2% | volatile |
| 21 | Bulgaria | 260 t | 2017 | up 246.7% | volatile |
| 22 | Bhutan | 140.78 t | 2024 | up 21.4% | volatile |
| 23 | Trinidad and Tobago | 10 t | 2024 | down 65.5% | volatile |
| 24 | Singapore | 0 t | 1991 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 24 | China, Macao SAR | 0 t | 2006 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 7.30 million t
- Asia 7.03 million t
- Southern Asia 5.99 million t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 204,167 t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 1.72 million t
- Viet Nam 68,900 t
- Eastern Asia 779,459 t
- Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 39,521 t
- South-Eastern Asia 235,582 t
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 22,112 t
- Africa 200,000 t
- Northern Africa 200,000 t
- Iran (Islamic Republic of) 3,639 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 160,524 t
- Small island developing states (SIDS) 715.94 t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 138,524 t
- Timor-Leste 705.94 t
- Americas 51,584 t
- Syrian Arab Republic 253 t
- South America 51,574 t
- Western Asia 19,902 t
- Europe 19,000 t
- European Union (27) 19,000 t
- Southern Europe 18,712 t
- Eastern Europe 287.27 t
- Caribbean 10 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.