Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight in India
India: Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight was 103 kg/An in 1990. ▲ Rising
Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight in India, 1961–1990
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/An.
Analysis
The most recent figure for meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight in India is 103 kg/An, measured in 1990. That is the highest value across all 30 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 8.4% on the previous year and up 17.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight in India peaked at 103 kg/An in 1990 and was at its lowest, 80 kg/An, in 1961.
India ranks 179th of 190 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 30 years of available data.
Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight in India, year by year
| Year | kg/An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 80 kg/An | — |
| 1962 | 80 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 80 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 80 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 80 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 80 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 80 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 80 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 80 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 80 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 80 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 81 kg/An | +1.2% |
| 1973 | 82 kg/An | +1.2% |
| 1974 | 83 kg/An | +1.2% |
| 1975 | 84 kg/An | +1.2% |
| 1976 | 85 kg/An | +1.2% |
| 1977 | 85 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 86 kg/An | +1.2% |
| 1979 | 87 kg/An | +1.2% |
| 1980 | 88 kg/An | +1.1% |
| 1981 | 88 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 89 kg/An | +1.1% |
| 1983 | 90 kg/An | +1.1% |
| 1984 | 90 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 91 kg/An | +1.1% |
| 1986 | 92 kg/An | +1.1% |
| 1987 | 93 kg/An | +1.1% |
| 1988 | 94 kg/An | +1.1% |
| 1989 | 95 kg/An | +1.1% |
| 1990 | 103 kg/An | +8.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 80 kg/An | 80 kg/An | 80 kg/An | 9 |
| 1970s | 83.3 kg/An | 80 kg/An | 87 kg/An | 10 |
| 1980s | 91 kg/An | 88 kg/An | 95 kg/An | 10 |
| 1990s | 103 kg/An | 103 kg/An | 103 kg/An | 1 |
Countries ranked near India
- 177 Madagascar 106 kg/An compare
- 178 Ethiopia PDR 105 kg/An compare
- 179 Cook Islands 103 kg/An compare
- 179 Gabon 103 kg/An compare
- 179 Ghana 103 kg/An compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight in India?
- Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight in India was 103 kg/An in 1990, 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 India?
- The highest recorded value was 103 kg/An in 1990.
- What is the lowest meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight recorded in India?
- The lowest recorded value was 80 kg/An in 1961.
- How does India rank for meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight?
- India ranks 179th out of 190 countries with data for 1990.
- Is meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight rising or falling in India?
- Over the last ten years it is up 17.0%. 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 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.