Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — Production in Benin
Benin: Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — Production was 14,487 t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — Production in Benin, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
The most recent figure for meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — production in Benin is 14,487 t, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 23.9% on the previous year and up 12.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — production in Benin peaked at 24,000 t in 1985 and was at its lowest, 4,000 t, in 1961.
Benin ranks 132nd of 191 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — Production in Benin, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4,000 t | — |
| 1962 | 4,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 4,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 4,080 t | +2.0% |
| 1965 | 4,160 t | +2.0% |
| 1966 | 4,240 t | +1.9% |
| 1967 | 4,400 t | +3.8% |
| 1968 | 4,640 t | +5.5% |
| 1969 | 4,880 t | +5.2% |
| 1970 | 5,360 t | +9.8% |
| 1971 | 5,920 t | +10.4% |
| 1972 | 6,400 t | +8.1% |
| 1973 | 7,040 t | +10.0% |
| 1974 | 7,680 t | +9.1% |
| 1975 | 8,400 t | +9.4% |
| 1976 | 9,200 t | +9.5% |
| 1977 | 9,840 t | +7.0% |
| 1978 | 10,560 t | +7.3% |
| 1979 | 11,600 t | +9.8% |
| 1980 | 12,480 t | +7.6% |
| 1981 | 12,800 t | +2.6% |
| 1982 | 14,400 t | +12.5% |
| 1983 | 18,400 t | +27.8% |
| 1984 | 20,800 t | +13.0% |
| 1985 | 24,000 t | +15.4% |
| 1986 | 19,200 t | -20.0% |
| 1987 | 17,600 t | -8.3% |
| 1988 | 15,200 t | -13.6% |
| 1989 | 12,000 t | -21.1% |
| 1990 | 10,800 t | -10.0% |
| 1991 | 8,800 t | -18.5% |
| 1992 | 9,200 t | +4.5% |
| 1993 | 10,000 t | +8.7% |
| 1994 | 10,400 t | +4.0% |
| 1995 | 10,800 t | +3.8% |
| 1996 | 10,960 t | +1.5% |
| 1997 | 11,200 t | +2.2% |
| 1998 | 11,440 t | +2.1% |
| 1999 | 11,600 t | +1.4% |
| 2000 | 13,853 t | +19.4% |
| 2001 | 9,525 t | -31.2% |
| 2002 | 10,083 t | +5.9% |
| 2003 | 14,300 t | +41.8% |
| 2004 | 11,739 t | -17.9% |
| 2005 | 13,255 t | +12.9% |
| 2006 | 9,940 t | -25.0% |
| 2007 | 10,525 t | +5.9% |
| 2008 | 9,750 t | -7.4% |
| 2009 | 10,009 t | +2.7% |
| 2010 | 10,335 t | +3.3% |
| 2011 | 11,677 t | +13.0% |
| 2012 | 12,051 t | +3.2% |
| 2013 | 12,436 t | +3.2% |
| 2014 | 12,834 t | +3.2% |
| 2015 | 13,245 t | +3.2% |
| 2016 | 13,670 t | +3.2% |
| 2017 | 14,109 t | +3.2% |
| 2018 | 14,561 t | +3.2% |
| 2019 | 15,027 t | +3.2% |
| 2020 | 9,793 t | -34.8% |
| 2021 | 9,359 t | -4.4% |
| 2022 | 9,360 t | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 11,694 t | +24.9% |
| 2024 | 14,487 t | +23.9% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,267 t | 4,000 t | 4,880 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 8,200 t | 5,360 t | 11,600 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 16,688 t | 12,000 t | 24,000 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 10,520 t | 8,800 t | 11,600 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 11,298 t | 9,525 t | 14,300 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 12,995 t | 10,335 t | 15,027 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 10,939 t | 9,359 t | 14,487 t | 5 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 8.16 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2292 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 380.06 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.6697 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0003 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4664 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 22.9% (2025)
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- Agricultural raw materials exports 52.9% (2024)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — production in Benin?
- Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — production in Benin was 14,487 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — production recorded in Benin?
- The highest recorded value was 24,000 t in 1985.
- What is the lowest meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — production recorded in Benin?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,000 t in 1961.
- How does Benin rank for meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — production?
- Benin ranks 132nd out of 191 countries with data for 2024.
- Is meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — production rising or falling in Benin?
- Over the last ten years it is up 12.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Benin 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 — Production. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
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.