Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Belize
Belize: Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 6,230 An in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Belize, 1961–2024
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 Belize is 6,230 An, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 1.1% on the previous year and up 346.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Belize peaked at 6,302 An in 2023 and was at its lowest, 160 An, in 1965.
Belize ranks 150th of 179 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Belize, year by year
| Year | An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 400 An | — |
| 1962 | 400 An | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 410 An | +2.5% |
| 1964 | 320 An | -22.0% |
| 1965 | 160 An | -50.0% |
| 1966 | 200 An | +25.0% |
| 1967 | 250 An | +25.0% |
| 1968 | 340 An | +36.0% |
| 1969 | 360 An | +5.9% |
| 1970 | 480 An | +33.3% |
| 1971 | 490 An | +2.1% |
| 1972 | 500 An | +2.0% |
| 1973 | 520 An | +4.0% |
| 1974 | 540 An | +3.8% |
| 1975 | 560 An | +3.7% |
| 1976 | 580 An | +3.6% |
| 1977 | 600 An | +3.4% |
| 1978 | 600 An | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 600 An | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 600 An | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 600 An | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 620 An | +3.3% |
| 1983 | 640 An | +3.2% |
| 1984 | 660 An | +3.1% |
| 1985 | 695 An | +5.3% |
| 1986 | 700 An | +0.7% |
| 1987 | 700 An | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 700 An | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 520 An | -25.7% |
| 1990 | 350 An | -32.7% |
| 1991 | 500 An | +42.9% |
| 1992 | 550 An | +10.0% |
| 1993 | 360 An | -34.5% |
| 1994 | 700 An | +94.4% |
| 1995 | 600 An | -14.3% |
| 1996 | 550 An | -8.3% |
| 1997 | 600 An | +9.1% |
| 1998 | 620 An | +3.3% |
| 1999 | 680 An | +9.7% |
| 2000 | 650 An | -4.4% |
| 2001 | 588 An | -9.5% |
| 2002 | 992 An | +68.7% |
| 2003 | 1,137 An | +14.6% |
| 2004 | 1,316 An | +15.7% |
| 2005 | 1,326 An | +0.8% |
| 2006 | 1,253 An | -5.5% |
| 2007 | 1,171 An | -6.5% |
| 2008 | 1,494 An | +27.6% |
| 2009 | 886 An | -40.7% |
| 2010 | 1,341 An | +51.4% |
| 2011 | 1,401 An | +4.5% |
| 2012 | 1,735 An | +23.8% |
| 2013 | 2,096 An | +20.8% |
| 2014 | 1,396 An | -33.4% |
| 2015 | 2,398 An | +71.8% |
| 2016 | 2,528 An | +5.4% |
| 2017 | 2,199 An | -13.0% |
| 2018 | 2,631 An | +19.6% |
| 2019 | 1,655 An | -37.1% |
| 2020 | 1,363 An | -17.6% |
| 2021 | 6,063 An | +344.8% |
| 2022 | 6,137 An | +1.2% |
| 2023 | 6,302 An | +2.7% |
| 2024 | 6,230 An | -1.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 315.56 An | 160 An | 410 An | 9 |
| 1970s | 547 An | 480 An | 600 An | 10 |
| 1980s | 643.5 An | 520 An | 700 An | 10 |
| 1990s | 551 An | 350 An | 700 An | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,081 An | 588 An | 1,494 An | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,938 An | 1,341 An | 2,631 An | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,219 An | 1,363 An | 6,302 An | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Belize?
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Belize was 6,230 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 Belize?
- The highest recorded value was 6,302 An in 2023.
- What is the lowest meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Belize?
- The lowest recorded value was 160 An in 1965.
- How does Belize rank for meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered?
- Belize ranks 150th out of 179 countries with data for 2024.
- Is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in Belize?
- Over the last ten years it is up 346.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Belize 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.