Meat of buffalo, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight in India
India: Meat of buffalo, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight was 382 kg/An in 2024. ▲ Rising
Meat of buffalo, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight in India, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/An.
Analysis
India recorded 382 kg/An for meat of buffalo, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 1.6% on the previous year and up 10.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat of buffalo, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight in India peaked at 382 kg/An in 2024 and was at its lowest, 105 kg/An, in 1996.
That places India 2nd out of 25 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Meat of buffalo, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight in India, year by year
| Year | kg/An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 138 kg/An | — |
| 1962 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 138 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1991 | 183 kg/An | +32.6% |
| 1992 | 169 kg/An | -7.7% |
| 1993 | 114 kg/An | -32.5% |
| 1994 | 122 kg/An | +7.0% |
| 1995 | 129 kg/An | +5.7% |
| 1996 | 105 kg/An | -18.6% |
| 1997 | 126 kg/An | +20.0% |
| 1998 | 153 kg/An | +21.4% |
| 1999 | 162 kg/An | +5.9% |
| 2000 | 168 kg/An | +3.7% |
| 2001 | 179 kg/An | +6.5% |
| 2002 | 193 kg/An | +7.8% |
| 2003 | 206 kg/An | +6.7% |
| 2004 | 224 kg/An | +8.7% |
| 2005 | 226 kg/An | +0.9% |
| 2006 | 244 kg/An | +8.0% |
| 2007 | 244 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 259 kg/An | +6.1% |
| 2009 | 278 kg/An | +7.3% |
| 2010 | 279 kg/An | +0.4% |
| 2011 | 293 kg/An | +5.0% |
| 2012 | 306 kg/An | +4.4% |
| 2013 | 330 kg/An | +7.8% |
| 2014 | 345 kg/An | +4.5% |
| 2015 | 357 kg/An | +3.5% |
| 2016 | 365 kg/An | +2.2% |
| 2017 | 373 kg/An | +2.2% |
| 2018 | 356 kg/An | -4.6% |
| 2019 | 365 kg/An | +2.5% |
| 2020 | 326 kg/An | -10.7% |
| 2021 | 357 kg/An | +9.5% |
| 2022 | 368 kg/An | +3.1% |
| 2023 | 376 kg/An | +2.2% |
| 2024 | 382 kg/An | +1.6% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 138 kg/An | 138 kg/An | 138 kg/An | 9 |
| 1970s | 138 kg/An | 138 kg/An | 138 kg/An | 10 |
| 1980s | 138 kg/An | 138 kg/An | 138 kg/An | 10 |
| 1990s | 140.1 kg/An | 105 kg/An | 183 kg/An | 10 |
| 2000s | 222.1 kg/An | 168 kg/An | 278 kg/An | 10 |
| 2010s | 336.9 kg/An | 279 kg/An | 373 kg/An | 10 |
| 2020s | 361.8 kg/An | 326 kg/An | 382 kg/An | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is meat of buffalo, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight in India?
- Meat of buffalo, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight in India was 382 kg/An in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest meat of buffalo, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight recorded in India?
- The highest recorded value was 382 kg/An in 2024.
- What is the lowest meat of buffalo, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight recorded in India?
- The lowest recorded value was 105 kg/An in 1996.
- How does India rank for meat of buffalo, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight?
- India ranks 2nd out of 25 countries with data for 2024.
- Is meat of buffalo, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight rising or falling in India?
- Over the last ten years it is up 10.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this India 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 — 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.