Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight in Belgium
Belgium: Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight was 308 kg/An in 2024. ▼ Falling
Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight in Belgium, 2000–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/An.
Analysis
Belgium recorded 308 kg/An for meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 1.0% on the previous year and unchanged over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight in Belgium peaked at 353 kg/An in 2007 and was at its lowest, 305 kg/An, in 2016.
Belgium ranks 23rd of 190 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 25 years of available data.
Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight in Belgium, year by year
| Year | kg/An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 331 kg/An | — |
| 2001 | 327 kg/An | -1.2% |
| 2002 | 328 kg/An | +0.3% |
| 2003 | 322 kg/An | -1.8% |
| 2004 | 333 kg/An | +3.4% |
| 2005 | 325 kg/An | -2.4% |
| 2006 | 350 kg/An | +7.7% |
| 2007 | 353 kg/An | +0.9% |
| 2008 | 351 kg/An | -0.6% |
| 2009 | 331 kg/An | -5.7% |
| 2010 | 337 kg/An | +1.8% |
| 2011 | 318 kg/An | -5.6% |
| 2012 | 319 kg/An | +0.3% |
| 2013 | 310 kg/An | -2.8% |
| 2014 | 308 kg/An | -0.6% |
| 2015 | 307 kg/An | -0.3% |
| 2016 | 305 kg/An | -0.7% |
| 2017 | 306 kg/An | +0.3% |
| 2018 | 312 kg/An | +2.0% |
| 2019 | 315 kg/An | +1.0% |
| 2020 | 325 kg/An | +3.2% |
| 2021 | 322 kg/An | -0.9% |
| 2022 | 315 kg/An | -2.2% |
| 2023 | 311 kg/An | -1.3% |
| 2024 | 308 kg/An | -1.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 335.1 kg/An | 322 kg/An | 353 kg/An | 10 |
| 2010s | 313.7 kg/An | 305 kg/An | 337 kg/An | 10 |
| 2020s | 316.2 kg/An | 308 kg/An | 325 kg/An | 5 |
Countries ranked near Belgium
- 20 Ireland 316 kg/An compare
- 20 Timor-Leste 96 kg/An compare
- 21 Côte d'Ivoire 165 kg/An compare
- 21 Jordan 314 kg/An compare
- 22 Namibia 313 kg/An compare
- 24 Cabo Verde 157 kg/An compare
- 24 Czechia 307 kg/An compare
- 25 Slovenia 303 kg/An compare
- 26 Israel 301 kg/An compare
- 26 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 301 kg/An compare
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0073 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 443.58 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.2138 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.1233 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 0.7% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 0.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.2% (2024)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight in Belgium?
- Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight in Belgium was 308 kg/An 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 — yield/carcass weight recorded in Belgium?
- The highest recorded value was 353 kg/An in 2007.
- What is the lowest meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight recorded in Belgium?
- The lowest recorded value was 305 kg/An in 2016.
- How does Belgium rank for meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight?
- Belgium ranks 23rd out of 190 countries with data for 2024.
- Is meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight rising or falling in Belgium?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Belgium 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 — 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.