Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Belgium
Belgium: Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 309,705 1000 An in 2024. ▲ Rising
Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Belgium, 2000–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 An.
Analysis
Belgium recorded 309,705 1000 An for meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in 2024. That is the highest value across all 25 years on record.
The figure is up 3.0% on the previous year and up 5.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Belgium peaked at 309,705 1000 An in 2024 and was at its lowest, 262,000 1000 An, in 2001.
Belgium ranks 40th of 191 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 25 years of available data.
Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Belgium, year by year
| Year | 1000 An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 276,000 1000 An | — |
| 2001 | 262,000 1000 An | -5.1% |
| 2002 | 296,200 1000 An | +13.1% |
| 2003 | 274,000 1000 An | -7.5% |
| 2004 | 302,000 1000 An | +10.2% |
| 2005 | 285,000 1000 An | -5.6% |
| 2006 | 303,000 1000 An | +6.3% |
| 2007 | 268,731 1000 An | -11.3% |
| 2008 | 273,022 1000 An | +1.6% |
| 2009 | 289,243 1000 An | +5.9% |
| 2010 | 307,950 1000 An | +6.5% |
| 2011 | 304,487 1000 An | -1.1% |
| 2012 | 308,010 1000 An | +1.2% |
| 2013 | 290,476 1000 An | -5.7% |
| 2014 | 293,639 1000 An | +1.1% |
| 2015 | 302,961 1000 An | +3.2% |
| 2016 | 305,770 1000 An | +0.9% |
| 2017 | 300,502 1000 An | -1.7% |
| 2018 | 304,955 1000 An | +1.5% |
| 2019 | 295,393 1000 An | -3.1% |
| 2020 | 297,295 1000 An | +0.6% |
| 2021 | 302,558 1000 An | +1.8% |
| 2022 | 297,794 1000 An | -1.6% |
| 2023 | 300,829 1000 An | +1.0% |
| 2024 | 309,705 1000 An | +3.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 282,920 1000 An | 262,000 1000 An | 303,000 1000 An | 10 |
| 2010s | 301,414 1000 An | 290,476 1000 An | 308,010 1000 An | 10 |
| 2020s | 301,636 1000 An | 297,295 1000 An | 309,705 1000 An | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Belgium
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -0.3325 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), 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)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Belgium?
- Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Belgium was 309,705 1000 An in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Belgium?
- The highest recorded value was 309,705 1000 An in 2024.
- What is the lowest meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Belgium?
- The lowest recorded value was 262,000 1000 An in 2001.
- How does Belgium rank for meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered?
- Belgium ranks 40th out of 191 countries with data for 2024.
- Is meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in Belgium?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- 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 chickens, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered. 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.