Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — Production in Southern Europe
Southern Europe: Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — Production was 3.65 million t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — Production in Southern Europe, 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 Southern Europe is 3.65 million t, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 6.5% on the previous year and up 28.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — production in Southern Europe peaked at 3.65 million t in 2024 and was at its lowest, 407,335 t, in 1961.
That places Southern Europe 18th out of 29 groups with data for 2024, putting it 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 Southern Europe, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 407,335 t | — |
| 1962 | 495,501 t | +21.6% |
| 1963 | 635,703 t | +28.3% |
| 1964 | 745,018 t | +17.2% |
| 1965 | 858,625 t | +15.2% |
| 1966 | 984,246 t | +14.6% |
| 1967 | 1.03 million t | +4.1% |
| 1968 | 1.06 million t | +3.0% |
| 1969 | 1.14 million t | +7.6% |
| 1970 | 1.31 million t | +15.5% |
| 1971 | 1.30 million t | -0.7% |
| 1972 | 1.43 million t | +9.8% |
| 1973 | 1.57 million t | +9.9% |
| 1974 | 1.63 million t | +3.7% |
| 1975 | 1.69 million t | +4.0% |
| 1976 | 1.83 million t | +7.9% |
| 1977 | 1.91 million t | +4.5% |
| 1978 | 1.97 million t | +3.3% |
| 1979 | 2.00 million t | +1.5% |
| 1980 | 2.07 million t | +3.6% |
| 1981 | 2.19 million t | +5.5% |
| 1982 | 2.18 million t | -0.4% |
| 1983 | 2.12 million t | -2.5% |
| 1984 | 2.09 million t | -1.8% |
| 1985 | 2.08 million t | -0.4% |
| 1986 | 2.08 million t | -0.1% |
| 1987 | 2.16 million t | +4.2% |
| 1988 | 2.20 million t | +1.8% |
| 1989 | 2.16 million t | -1.8% |
| 1990 | 2.16 million t | +0.1% |
| 1991 | 2.17 million t | +0.4% |
| 1992 | 2.18 million t | +0.3% |
| 1993 | 2.15 million t | -1.2% |
| 1994 | 2.18 million t | +1.6% |
| 1995 | 2.25 million t | +2.9% |
| 1996 | 2.21 million t | -1.9% |
| 1997 | 2.20 million t | -0.1% |
| 1998 | 2.34 million t | +6.0% |
| 1999 | 2.26 million t | -3.4% |
| 2000 | 2.22 million t | -1.5% |
| 2001 | 2.32 million t | +4.4% |
| 2002 | 2.46 million t | +5.9% |
| 2003 | 2.42 million t | -1.6% |
| 2004 | 2.34 million t | -3.1% |
| 2005 | 2.34 million t | -0.1% |
| 2006 | 2.21 million t | -5.4% |
| 2007 | 2.42 million t | +9.3% |
| 2008 | 2.46 million t | +1.8% |
| 2009 | 2.62 million t | +6.2% |
| 2010 | 2.63 million t | +0.4% |
| 2011 | 2.75 million t | +4.5% |
| 2012 | 2.78 million t | +1.1% |
| 2013 | 2.73 million t | -1.8% |
| 2014 | 2.85 million t | +4.3% |
| 2015 | 2.96 million t | +4.2% |
| 2016 | 3.17 million t | +7.0% |
| 2017 | 3.17 million t | -0.1% |
| 2018 | 3.13 million t | -1.1% |
| 2019 | 3.31 million t | +5.6% |
| 2020 | 3.32 million t | +0.5% |
| 2021 | 3.26 million t | -2.1% |
| 2022 | 3.24 million t | -0.5% |
| 2023 | 3.42 million t | +5.7% |
| 2024 | 3.65 million t | +6.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 815,883 t | 407,335 t | 1.14 million t | 9 |
| 1970s | 1.66 million t | 1.30 million t | 2.00 million t | 10 |
| 1980s | 2.13 million t | 2.07 million t | 2.20 million t | 10 |
| 1990s | 2.21 million t | 2.15 million t | 2.34 million t | 10 |
| 2000s | 2.38 million t | 2.21 million t | 2.62 million t | 10 |
| 2010s | 2.95 million t | 2.63 million t | 3.31 million t | 10 |
| 2020s | 3.38 million t | 3.24 million t | 3.65 million t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Southern Europe
- 15 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 22,522 t compare
- 15 South Africa 1.92 million t compare
- 16 Democratic Republic of the Congo 10,000 t compare
- 16 Peru 1.86 million t compare
- 17 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1.85 million t compare
- 17 Polynesia 1,456 t compare
- 18 Colombia 1.82 million t compare
- 18 Micronesia 1,322 t compare
- 19 Timor-Leste 492 t compare
- 19 Australia and New Zealand 1.71 million t compare
- 20 Malaysia 1.60 million t compare
- 20 Micronesia (Federated States of) 161.73 t compare
- 21 Philippines 1.60 million t compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — production in Southern Europe?
- Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — production in Southern Europe was 3.65 million 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 Southern Europe?
- The highest recorded value was 3.65 million t in 2024.
- What is the lowest meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — production recorded in Southern Europe?
- The lowest recorded value was 407,335 t in 1961.
- How does Southern Europe rank for meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — production?
- Southern Europe ranks 18th out of 29 groups with data for 2024.
- Is meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — production rising or falling in Southern Europe?
- Over the last ten years it is up 28.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Southern Europe 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.