Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production in Australia
Australia: Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production was 2.59 million t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production in Australia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
Australia recorded 2.59 million t for meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — production in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 15.9% on the previous year and down 0.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — production in Australia peaked at 2.66 million t in 2015 and was at its lowest, 642,924 t, in 1961.
That places Australia 7th out of 190 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 cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production in Australia, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 642,924 t | — |
| 1962 | 803,950 t | +25.0% |
| 1963 | 928,606 t | +15.5% |
| 1964 | 1.00 million t | +7.8% |
| 1965 | 1.03 million t | +2.5% |
| 1966 | 946,333 t | -7.8% |
| 1967 | 878,683 t | -7.1% |
| 1968 | 904,285 t | +2.9% |
| 1969 | 934,766 t | +3.4% |
| 1970 | 1.01 million t | +8.0% |
| 1971 | 1.05 million t | +3.7% |
| 1972 | 1.16 million t | +11.2% |
| 1973 | 1.44 million t | +23.5% |
| 1974 | 1.32 million t | -8.1% |
| 1975 | 1.55 million t | +17.0% |
| 1976 | 1.84 million t | +19.0% |
| 1977 | 1.99 million t | +8.0% |
| 1978 | 2.18 million t | +9.9% |
| 1979 | 2.02 million t | -7.6% |
| 1980 | 1.56 million t | -22.5% |
| 1981 | 1.47 million t | -6.2% |
| 1982 | 1.58 million t | +7.4% |
| 1983 | 1.54 million t | -2.1% |
| 1984 | 1.35 million t | -12.8% |
| 1985 | 1.31 million t | -2.6% |
| 1986 | 1.38 million t | +5.7% |
| 1987 | 1.52 million t | +9.8% |
| 1988 | 1.59 million t | +4.4% |
| 1989 | 1.49 million t | -6.1% |
| 1990 | 1.68 million t | +12.4% |
| 1991 | 1.76 million t | +4.9% |
| 1992 | 1.79 million t | +1.8% |
| 1993 | 1.83 million t | +2.0% |
| 1994 | 1.82 million t | -0.1% |
| 1995 | 1.80 million t | -1.2% |
| 1996 | 1.74 million t | -3.3% |
| 1997 | 1.81 million t | +3.8% |
| 1998 | 1.96 million t | +8.0% |
| 1999 | 2.01 million t | +2.8% |
| 2000 | 1.99 million t | -1.1% |
| 2001 | 2.08 million t | +4.6% |
| 2002 | 2.09 million t | +0.5% |
| 2003 | 2.00 million t | -4.4% |
| 2004 | 2.11 million t | +5.8% |
| 2005 | 2.09 million t | -1.1% |
| 2006 | 2.19 million t | +4.7% |
| 2007 | 2.17 million t | -0.9% |
| 2008 | 2.14 million t | -1.4% |
| 2009 | 2.11 million t | -1.5% |
| 2010 | 2.13 million t | +1.1% |
| 2011 | 2.13 million t | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 2.15 million t | +1.1% |
| 2013 | 2.36 million t | +9.6% |
| 2014 | 2.60 million t | +10.0% |
| 2015 | 2.66 million t | +2.6% |
| 2016 | 2.32 million t | -13.0% |
| 2017 | 2.07 million t | -10.7% |
| 2018 | 2.31 million t | +11.6% |
| 2019 | 2.43 million t | +5.3% |
| 2020 | 2.13 million t | -12.6% |
| 2021 | 1.89 million t | -10.9% |
| 2022 | 1.89 million t | -0.2% |
| 2023 | 2.23 million t | +18.3% |
| 2024 | 2.59 million t | +15.9% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 896,351 t | 642,924 t | 1.03 million t | 9 |
| 1970s | 1.56 million t | 1.01 million t | 2.18 million t | 10 |
| 1980s | 1.48 million t | 1.31 million t | 1.59 million t | 10 |
| 1990s | 1.82 million t | 1.68 million t | 2.01 million t | 10 |
| 2000s | 2.10 million t | 1.99 million t | 2.19 million t | 10 |
| 2010s | 2.32 million t | 2.07 million t | 2.66 million t | 10 |
| 2020s | 2.15 million t | 1.89 million t | 2.59 million t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Australia
- 4 China, mainland 7.01 million t compare
- 5 Australia and New Zealand 3.33 million t compare
- 6 Argentina 3.18 million t compare
- 8 Mexico 2.25 million t compare
- 8 Viet Nam 270,000 t compare
- 9 Russian Federation 1.69 million t compare
- 10 Pakistan 1.37 million t compare
More agriculture & rural data for Australia
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 13.97 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0227 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 1,476 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.5855 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.1228 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 2.3% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 2.3% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.5% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — production in Australia?
- Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — production in Australia was 2.59 million t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — production recorded in Australia?
- The highest recorded value was 2.66 million t in 2015.
- What is the lowest meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — production recorded in Australia?
- The lowest recorded value was 642,924 t in 1961.
- How does Australia rank for meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — production?
- Australia ranks 7th out of 190 countries with data for 2024.
- Is meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — production rising or falling in Australia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Australia data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production. 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.