Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight by country

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...

Countries reporting
192
Highest
3,582 g/An
Rwanda
Lowest
550 g/An
Benin
Median
1,314 g/An
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
13,964

What the numbers show

Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight is currently reported for 192 countries. The highest value is 3,582 g/An in Rwanda; the lowest is 550 g/An in Benin.

The median across all reporting countries is 1,314 g/An, and the mean is 1,385 g/An.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 7.

Over the past decade 108 countries rose and 57 fell. The largest increase was in Tajikistan (up 141.7%), and the largest decrease in Singapore (down 37.0%).

Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Rwanda 3,582 g/An 2024 up 24.5% volatile
2 Fiji 3,271 g/An 2024 up 57.4% rising
3 Argentina 3,117 g/An 2024 up 17.5% rising
4 Malawi 3,061 g/An 2024 up 13.8% volatile
4 Türkiye 1,837 g/An 2024 up 7.6% rising
5 Japan 2,914 g/An 2024 up 3.6% rising
6 Malaysia 2,431 g/An 2024 up 26.0% rising
7 Chile 2,388 g/An 2024 up 8.6% rising
8 Nicaragua 2,316 g/An 2023 up 16.4% rising
9 Uruguay 2,286 g/An 2024 down 8.4% rising
10 Tajikistan 2,267 g/An 2024 up 141.7% rising
11 Sudan 2,261 g/An 2024 up 114.3% rising
12 Peru 2,249 g/An 2024 up 6.0% rising
13 Lebanon 2,134 g/An 2024 up 20.2% rising
14 Brazil 2,114 g/An 2024 down 7.1% rising
15 Ecuador 2,100 g/An 2024 unchanged rising
16 Russian Federation 2,068 g/An 2024 up 25.1% rising
17 Israel 2,037 g/An 2024 down 4.9% rising
18 Georgia 2,013 g/An 2024 up 42.3% rising
19 Hungary 2,011 g/An 2024 up 6.9% rising
20 Cyprus 2,001 g/An 2024 up 3.4% rising
21 Australia 1,994 g/An 2024 up 4.8% rising
22 Australia and New Zealand 1,975 g/An 2024 up 4.5% rising
23 Uzbekistan 1,968 g/An 2024 down 1.8% rising
24 Spain 1,967 g/An 2024 up 17.2% rising
25 Italy 1,919 g/An 2024 up 6.2% rising
26 Kazakhstan 1,890 g/An 2024 up 13.7% rising
27 Mexico 1,881 g/An 2024 up 5.6% rising
28 Poland 1,875 g/An 2024 up 5.2% rising
29 New Zealand 1,860 g/An 2024 up 2.1% rising
30 Ukraine 1,842 g/An 2024 up 3.7% rising
31 South Africa 1,832 g/An 2024 up 2.2% rising
32 Honduras 1,828 g/An 2024 down 0.2% rising
33 Guyana 1,815 g/An 2024 up 64.7% rising
34 Mozambique 1,790 g/An 2024 up 21.7% rising
35 Sri Lanka 1,782 g/An 2024 up 55.0% rising
36 Bulgaria 1,780 g/An 2024 up 5.2% rising
37 Serbia 1,772 g/An 2024 down 23.7% rising
38 Germany 1,770 g/An 2024 up 14.9% rising
38 Panama 1,770 g/An 2024 up 5.2% rising
40 China, Taiwan Province of 1,764 g/An 2024 up 5.9% rising
41 Costa Rica 1,760 g/An 2024 up 3.5% rising
42 Canada 1,758 g/An 2024 up 5.9% rising
42 Finland 1,758 g/An 2024 up 5.6% rising
44 Belize 1,754 g/An 2024 up 7.1% rising
45 Lithuania 1,753 g/An 2024 down 2.9% rising
46 Latvia 1,752 g/An 2024 up 5.7% rising
47 Iceland 1,717 g/An 2024 up 4.8% rising
48 Belgium 1,716 g/An 2024 up 18.6% flat
49 Colombia 1,708 g/An 2024 down 8.5% flat
50 Seychelles 1,707 g/An 2024 up 22.3% rising
51 Slovenia 1,692 g/An 2024 up 1.5% rising
52 Estonia 1,689 g/An 2018 up 9.7% rising
53 Kyrgyzstan 1,670 g/An 2024 up 38.4% rising
53 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 1,670 g/An 2024 up 0.3% rising
55 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1,669 g/An 2024 up 8.4% rising
56 Greece 1,668 g/An 2024 up 1.3% rising
57 Romania 1,665 g/An 2024 up 3.5% rising
58 Guatemala 1,647 g/An 2024 down 18.9% rising
58 Jamaica 1,647 g/An 2024 up 9.4% rising
60 Malta 1,643 g/An 2024 down 6.4% rising
61 Dominican Republic 1,633 g/An 2024 unchanged rising
62 Sweden 1,625 g/An 2024 up 10.0% rising
63 France 1,598 g/An 2024 up 18.2% rising
63 Zimbabwe 1,598 g/An 2024 up 12.5% rising
65 Croatia 1,592 g/An 2024 up 28.5% rising
66 Ireland 1,580 g/An 2024 up 51.3% flat
67 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1,572 g/An 2024 up 2.7% flat
68 Guinea 1,562 g/An 2024 down 4.4% rising
69 Senegal 1,554 g/An 2024 up 24.6% rising
70 Denmark 1,550 g/An 2024 unchanged rising
71 Suriname 1,549 g/An 2024 down 15.8% rising
72 Serbia and Montenegro 1,540 g/An 2005 up 3.3% flat
73 China, Hong Kong SAR 1,526 g/An 2024 down 1.0% rising
74 Norway 1,524 g/An 2024 up 19.7% rising
75 New Caledonia 1,523 g/An 2024 down 14.9% rising
76 Slovakia 1,506 g/An 2019 down 1.6% rising
77 India 1,496 g/An 2024 up 16.6% rising
78 Brunei Darussalam 1,483 g/An 2024 down 1.5% rising
79 Kenya 1,481 g/An 2024 up 6.1% rising
80 Portugal 1,474 g/An 2024 down 3.0% rising
81 Egypt 1,472 g/An 2024 up 2.1% rising
82 Belgium-Luxembourg 1,448 g/An 1999 up 4.1% rising
83 Palestine 1,442 g/An 2022 down 17.1% falling
84 Thailand 1,431 g/An 2024 up 6.6% rising
84 Tunisia 1,431 g/An 2024 up 1.0% rising
86 Barbados 1,410 g/An 2024 down 12.0% rising
87 Mongolia 1,394 g/An 2024 down 0.4% falling
88 Trinidad and Tobago 1,377 g/An 2024 down 29.9% rising
89 Czechia 1,372 g/An 2024 down 2.1% rising
90 South Sudan 1,370 g/An 2024 up 37.0% rising
91 Luxembourg 1,359 g/An 2017 down 15.1% falling
92 United Arab Emirates 1,345 g/An 2024 up 3.5% flat
93 Myanmar 1,344 g/An 2024 up 1.1% rising
94 Iraq 1,332 g/An 2024 up 11.1% rising
95 Turkmenistan 1,319 g/An 2024 up 4.6% flat
96 China 1,309 g/An 2024 down 6.2% rising
97 Cuba 1,300 g/An 2024 up 14.2% rising
97 USSR 1,300 g/An 1991 unchanged flat
99 China, mainland 1,294 g/An 2024 down 6.6% rising
100 Austria 1,290 g/An 2021 down 8.0% flat
101 Uganda 1,287 g/An 2024 down 0.2% flat
102 Azerbaijan 1,285 g/An 2024 up 8.6% flat
103 Guadeloupe 1,274 g/An 2006 up 7.2% rising
104 Switzerland 1,262 g/An 2024 up 0.3% rising
105 Cameroon 1,252 g/An 2024 up 56.5% rising
106 El Salvador 1,251 g/An 2024 up 6.6% rising
107 Singapore 1,230 g/An 2024 down 37.0% falling
108 Kuwait 1,228 g/An 2024 down 4.0% rising
108 Puerto Rico 1,228 g/An 2024 down 1.2% rising
110 Jordan 1,202 g/An 2024 up 20.2% rising
111 Antigua and Barbuda 1,200 g/An 2024 unchanged flat
111 Saint Lucia 1,200 g/An 2024 unchanged flat
113 Martinique 1,195 g/An 2006 up 2.8% rising
114 Philippines 1,192 g/An 2024 up 1.8% rising
115 Algeria 1,185 g/An 2024 up 18.5% rising
116 Qatar 1,177 g/An 2024 down 3.0% rising
117 Libya 1,174 g/An 2024 down 1.3% rising
118 Pakistan 1,173 g/An 2024 down 3.1% rising
119 Bahamas 1,162 g/An 2024 down 3.4% flat
120 Saudi Arabia 1,146 g/An 2024 up 46.5% rising
121 Burkina Faso 1,100 g/An 2024 down 8.3% rising
122 Armenia 1,084 g/An 2024 up 3.4% flat
123 Yemen 1,082 g/An 2024 up 0.7% rising
124 Belarus 1,072 g/An 2024 down 10.7% falling
125 Czechoslovakia 1,050 g/An 1992 down 4.8% rising
126 Mauritius 1,027 g/An 2024 down 7.7% rising
127 Burundi 1,025 g/An 2024 down 1.9% rising
127 Niue 1,025 g/An 2024 up 3.9% rising
129 Zambia 1,021 g/An 2024 up 2.1% flat
130 French Guiana 1,020 g/An 2006 unchanged falling
131 Eswatini 1,010 g/An 2024 up 1.0% flat
132 Réunion 1,001 g/An 2006 up 0.1% flat
133 Congo 1,000 g/An 2024 unchanged flat
133 Dominica 1,000 g/An 2024 unchanged flat
133 Cambodia 1,000 g/An 2024 unchanged flat
133 Nigeria 1,000 g/An 2024 unchanged rising
133 Paraguay 1,000 g/An 2024 unchanged flat
133 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1,000 g/An 2024 unchanged flat
133 Vanuatu 1,000 g/An 2024 unchanged flat
133 Sudan (former) 1,000 g/An 2011 unchanged flat
141 Albania 994 g/An 2024 down 31.9% rising
142 Kiribati 991 g/An 2024 up 16.6% rising
143 Angola 948 g/An 2024 up 5.3% falling
144 Grenada 945 g/An 2024 down 20.1% flat
144 Tuvalu 945 g/An 2024 up 3.2% rising
146 Bhutan 937 g/An 2024 down 24.1% rising
147 Papua New Guinea 916 g/An 2024 up 1.8% flat
148 Haiti 900 g/An 2024 unchanged flat
148 Morocco 900 g/An 2024 up 2.6% rising
150 Namibia 894 g/An 2024 up 11.8% rising
151 French Polynesia 885 g/An 2024 down 1.7% flat
152 Bahrain 877 g/An 2024 down 25.2% flat
152 Gambia 877 g/An 2024 down 12.3% rising
154 Central African Republic 865 g/An 2024 up 1.1% rising
155 China, Macao SAR 864 g/An 2024 down 4.0% flat
156 Republic of Korea 863 g/An 2024 up 7.2% falling
157 Indonesia 854 g/An 2024 up 1.3% flat
158 Afghanistan 847 g/An 2024 up 5.9% flat
159 Cook Islands 839 g/An 2024 up 4.9% flat
160 Guinea-Bissau 837 g/An 2024 up 4.9% rising
161 Madagascar 828 g/An 2024 up 3.5% flat
162 Liberia 822 g/An 2024 up 2.8% flat
163 Yugoslav SFR 820 g/An 1991 down 5.7% flat
164 Gabon 813 g/An 2024 up 1.6% flat
164 Equatorial Guinea 813 g/An 2024 up 1.6% flat
166 Samoa 806 g/An 2024 up 0.8% flat
167 Comoros 800 g/An 2024 unchanged flat
167 Ethiopia 800 g/An 2024 unchanged flat
167 Lesotho 800 g/An 2024 unchanged flat
167 Mauritania 800 g/An 2024 unchanged flat
167 Niger 800 g/An 2024 unchanged flat
167 Nauru 800 g/An 2024 unchanged flat
167 Solomon Islands 800 g/An 2024 unchanged flat
167 Somalia 800 g/An 2024 unchanged flat
167 Ethiopia PDR 800 g/An 1992 unchanged rising
176 Chad 799 g/An 2024 up 0.1% rising
177 Oman 795 g/An 2024 down 0.6% flat
178 North Macedonia 792 g/An 2024 down 2.3% falling
179 Sierra Leone 785 g/An 2024 down 12.4% falling
180 Ghana 769 g/An 2024 down 1.0% falling
181 Nepal 766 g/An 2024 down 8.4% flat
182 Tonga 733 g/An 2024 down 7.6% falling
183 Sao Tome and Principe 703 g/An 2024 up 8.8% falling
184 Bangladesh 700 g/An 2024 unchanged falling
185 Botswana 685 g/An 2024 up 20.8% rising
186 Togo 684 g/An 2024 down 14.5% flat
187 Eritrea 655 g/An 2024 down 23.1% falling
188 Saint Kitts and Nevis 633 g/An 2024 down 0.8% falling
189 Montenegro 599 g/An 2024 up 1.5% rising
190 Mali 562 g/An 2024 down 28.8% falling
191 Benin 550 g/An 2024 unchanged falling

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Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight
Unit
g/An
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
240 places, 13,964 data points, 1961–2024
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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.