Meat of goat, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight in Malawi
Malawi: Meat of goat, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight was 9 kg/An in 2024. ▼ Falling
Meat of goat, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight in Malawi, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/An.
Analysis
Malawi recorded 9 kg/An for meat of goat, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight in 2024.
The figure is up 12.5% on the previous year and down 10.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat of goat, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight in Malawi peaked at 12 kg/An in 1961 and was at its lowest, 8 kg/An, in 2009.
Malawi ranks 146th of 168 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Meat of goat, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight in Malawi, year by year
| Year | kg/An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 12 kg/An | — |
| 1962 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1991 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1992 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1993 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1994 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1995 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1997 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1998 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1999 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2000 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2001 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2002 | 9 kg/An | -25.0% |
| 2003 | 9 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 10 kg/An | +11.1% |
| 2005 | 10 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 10 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 10 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 10 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 8 kg/An | -20.0% |
| 2010 | 9 kg/An | +12.5% |
| 2011 | 10 kg/An | +11.1% |
| 2012 | 9 kg/An | -10.0% |
| 2013 | 9 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 10 kg/An | +11.1% |
| 2015 | 9 kg/An | -10.0% |
| 2016 | 9 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 10 kg/An | +11.1% |
| 2018 | 8 kg/An | -20.0% |
| 2019 | 8 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 8 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 8 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 8 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 8 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 9 kg/An | +12.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 12 kg/An | 12 kg/An | 12 kg/An | 9 |
| 1970s | 12 kg/An | 12 kg/An | 12 kg/An | 10 |
| 1980s | 12 kg/An | 12 kg/An | 12 kg/An | 10 |
| 1990s | 12 kg/An | 12 kg/An | 12 kg/An | 10 |
| 2000s | 10 kg/An | 8 kg/An | 12 kg/An | 10 |
| 2010s | 9.1 kg/An | 8 kg/An | 10 kg/An | 10 |
| 2020s | 8.2 kg/An | 8 kg/An | 9 kg/An | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is meat of goat, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight in Malawi?
- Meat of goat, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight in Malawi was 9 kg/An in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest meat of goat, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight recorded in Malawi?
- The highest recorded value was 12 kg/An in 1961.
- What is the lowest meat of goat, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight recorded in Malawi?
- The lowest recorded value was 8 kg/An in 2009.
- How does Malawi rank for meat of goat, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight?
- Malawi ranks 146th out of 168 countries with data for 2024.
- Is meat of goat, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight rising or falling in Malawi?
- Over the last ten years it is down 10.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Malawi data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Meat of goat, 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.