Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Cameroon
Cameroon: Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 1.43 million An in 2024. ▲ Rising
Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Cameroon, 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 Cameroon is 1.43 million An, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 2.1% on the previous year and down 7.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Cameroon peaked at 1.56 million An in 2015 and was at its lowest, 477,000 An, in 1961.
Cameroon ranks 54th of 179 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Cameroon, year by year
| Year | An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 477,000 An | — |
| 1962 | 489,000 An | +2.5% |
| 1963 | 501,000 An | +2.5% |
| 1964 | 510,000 An | +1.8% |
| 1965 | 517,500 An | +1.5% |
| 1966 | 540,000 An | +4.3% |
| 1967 | 570,000 An | +5.6% |
| 1968 | 600,000 An | +5.3% |
| 1969 | 600,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 600,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 600,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 600,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 510,000 An | -15.0% |
| 1974 | 525,000 An | +2.9% |
| 1975 | 540,000 An | +2.9% |
| 1976 | 567,900 An | +5.2% |
| 1977 | 643,500 An | +13.3% |
| 1978 | 653,000 An | +1.5% |
| 1979 | 651,000 An | -0.3% |
| 1980 | 648,000 An | -0.5% |
| 1981 | 655,000 An | +1.1% |
| 1982 | 640,000 An | -2.3% |
| 1983 | 630,000 An | -1.6% |
| 1984 | 650,000 An | +3.2% |
| 1985 | 674,483 An | +3.8% |
| 1986 | 865,586 An | +28.3% |
| 1987 | 908,864 An | +5.0% |
| 1988 | 1.00 million An | +10.0% |
| 1989 | 1.10 million An | +10.0% |
| 1990 | 1.20 million An | +9.1% |
| 1991 | 1.15 million An | -4.2% |
| 1992 | 1.17 million An | +1.7% |
| 1993 | 1.19 million An | +1.5% |
| 1994 | 1.21 million An | +1.5% |
| 1995 | 1.22 million An | +1.5% |
| 1996 | 1.24 million An | +1.5% |
| 1997 | 1.26 million An | +1.4% |
| 1998 | 1.28 million An | +1.4% |
| 1999 | 1.31 million An | +2.8% |
| 2000 | 1.35 million An | +2.7% |
| 2001 | 1.36 million An | +1.1% |
| 2002 | 1.36 million An | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 1.36 million An | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 1.36 million An | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 1.36 million An | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 1.36 million An | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 1.36 million An | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 1.11 million An | -18.8% |
| 2009 | 1.06 million An | -4.3% |
| 2010 | 1.37 million An | +29.5% |
| 2011 | 1.40 million An | +2.0% |
| 2012 | 1.45 million An | +3.6% |
| 2013 | 1.32 million An | -9.0% |
| 2014 | 1.55 million An | +17.8% |
| 2015 | 1.56 million An | +0.5% |
| 2016 | 1.55 million An | -0.7% |
| 2017 | 1.47 million An | -5.4% |
| 2018 | 1.34 million An | -8.6% |
| 2019 | 1.33 million An | -0.7% |
| 2020 | 1.35 million An | +1.2% |
| 2021 | 1.43 million An | +5.8% |
| 2022 | 1.44 million An | +1.0% |
| 2023 | 1.46 million An | +1.4% |
| 2024 | 1.43 million An | -2.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 533,833 An | 477,000 An | 600,000 An | 9 |
| 1970s | 589,040 An | 510,000 An | 653,000 An | 10 |
| 1980s | 777,193 An | 630,000 An | 1.10 million An | 10 |
| 1990s | 1.22 million An | 1.15 million An | 1.31 million An | 10 |
| 2000s | 1.31 million An | 1.06 million An | 1.36 million An | 10 |
| 2010s | 1.44 million An | 1.32 million An | 1.56 million An | 10 |
| 2020s | 1.42 million An | 1.35 million An | 1.46 million An | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Cameroon
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 0.9031 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1685 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 332.28 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.98 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4433 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 16.8% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 16.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 14.9% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Cameroon?
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Cameroon was 1.43 million 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 Cameroon?
- The highest recorded value was 1.56 million An in 2015.
- What is the lowest meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Cameroon?
- The lowest recorded value was 477,000 An in 1961.
- How does Cameroon rank for meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered?
- Cameroon ranks 54th out of 179 countries with data for 2024.
- Is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in Cameroon?
- Over the last ten years it is down 7.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Cameroon 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.