Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Belgium
Belgium: Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 72,020 An in 2024. ▼ Falling
Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Belgium, 2000–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in An.
Analysis
The most recent figure for meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Belgium is 72,020 An, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 10.1% on the previous year and down 41.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Belgium peaked at 234,000 An in 2001 and was at its lowest, 35,571 An, in 2009.
Belgium ranks 116th of 179 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 25 years of available data.
Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Belgium, year by year
| Year | An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 218,000 An | — |
| 2001 | 234,000 An | +7.3% |
| 2002 | 161,200 An | -31.1% |
| 2003 | 170,000 An | +5.5% |
| 2004 | 178,440 An | +5.0% |
| 2005 | 160,570 An | -10.0% |
| 2006 | 68,207 An | -57.5% |
| 2007 | 67,341 An | -1.3% |
| 2008 | 63,170 An | -6.2% |
| 2009 | 35,571 An | -43.7% |
| 2010 | 143,056 An | +302.2% |
| 2011 | 126,827 An | -11.3% |
| 2012 | 115,874 An | -8.6% |
| 2013 | 121,085 An | +4.5% |
| 2014 | 122,720 An | +1.4% |
| 2015 | 128,113 An | +4.4% |
| 2016 | 141,105 An | +10.1% |
| 2017 | 139,029 An | -1.5% |
| 2018 | 131,340 An | -5.5% |
| 2019 | 122,380 An | -6.8% |
| 2020 | 122,720 An | +0.3% |
| 2021 | 124,610 An | +1.5% |
| 2022 | 98,850 An | -20.7% |
| 2023 | 80,130 An | -18.9% |
| 2024 | 72,020 An | -10.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 135,650 An | 35,571 An | 234,000 An | 10 |
| 2010s | 129,153 An | 115,874 An | 143,056 An | 10 |
| 2020s | 99,666 An | 72,020 An | 124,610 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 sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Belgium?
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Belgium was 72,020 An in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Belgium?
- The highest recorded value was 234,000 An in 2001.
- What is the lowest meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Belgium?
- The lowest recorded value was 35,571 An in 2009.
- How does Belgium rank for meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered?
- Belgium ranks 116th out of 179 countries with data for 2024.
- Is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in Belgium?
- Over the last ten years it is down 41.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- 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 sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered. 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.