Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Ecuador
Ecuador: Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 410,633 An in 2024. ▲ Rising
Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Ecuador, 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 Ecuador is 410,633 An, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 19.2% on the previous year and up 0.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Ecuador peaked at 1.00 million An in 2003 and was at its lowest, 203,000 An, in 1988.
Ecuador ranks 84th 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 Ecuador, year by year
| Year | An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 420,000 An | — |
| 1962 | 425,000 An | +1.2% |
| 1963 | 430,000 An | +1.2% |
| 1964 | 435,000 An | +1.2% |
| 1965 | 440,000 An | +1.1% |
| 1966 | 440,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 450,000 An | +2.3% |
| 1968 | 460,000 An | +2.2% |
| 1969 | 465,000 An | +1.1% |
| 1970 | 470,000 An | +1.1% |
| 1971 | 479,320 An | +2.0% |
| 1972 | 488,840 An | +2.0% |
| 1973 | 490,000 An | +0.2% |
| 1974 | 500,000 An | +2.0% |
| 1975 | 513,100 An | +2.6% |
| 1976 | 527,500 An | +2.8% |
| 1977 | 268,000 An | -49.2% |
| 1978 | 270,000 An | +0.7% |
| 1979 | 280,000 An | +3.7% |
| 1980 | 280,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 315,000 An | +12.5% |
| 1982 | 308,455 An | -2.1% |
| 1983 | 321,765 An | +4.3% |
| 1984 | 286,044 An | -11.1% |
| 1985 | 291,591 An | +1.9% |
| 1986 | 250,000 An | -14.3% |
| 1987 | 220,000 An | -12.0% |
| 1988 | 203,000 An | -7.7% |
| 1989 | 220,000 An | +8.4% |
| 1990 | 234,541 An | +6.6% |
| 1991 | 233,184 An | -0.6% |
| 1992 | 234,700 An | +0.7% |
| 1993 | 312,287 An | +33.1% |
| 1994 | 332,957 An | +6.6% |
| 1995 | 413,196 An | +24.1% |
| 1996 | 413,000 An | -0.0% |
| 1997 | 430,000 An | +4.1% |
| 1998 | 750,000 An | +74.4% |
| 1999 | 600,000 An | -20.0% |
| 2000 | 650,000 An | +8.3% |
| 2001 | 740,000 An | +13.8% |
| 2002 | 750,000 An | +1.4% |
| 2003 | 1.00 million An | +33.3% |
| 2004 | 800,000 An | -20.0% |
| 2005 | 650,000 An | -18.8% |
| 2006 | 620,000 An | -4.6% |
| 2007 | 600,000 An | -3.2% |
| 2008 | 600,000 An | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 600,000 An | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 400,000 An | -33.3% |
| 2011 | 400,000 An | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 400,000 An | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 410,000 An | +2.5% |
| 2014 | 407,830 An | -0.5% |
| 2015 | 364,771 An | -10.6% |
| 2016 | 372,327 An | +2.1% |
| 2017 | 321,409 An | -13.7% |
| 2018 | 340,000 An | +5.8% |
| 2019 | 426,055 An | +25.3% |
| 2020 | 447,506 An | +5.0% |
| 2021 | 466,621 An | +4.3% |
| 2022 | 493,185 An | +5.7% |
| 2023 | 508,374 An | +3.1% |
| 2024 | 410,633 An | -19.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 440,556 An | 420,000 An | 465,000 An | 9 |
| 1970s | 428,676 An | 268,000 An | 527,500 An | 10 |
| 1980s | 269,586 An | 203,000 An | 321,765 An | 10 |
| 1990s | 395,386 An | 233,184 An | 750,000 An | 10 |
| 2000s | 701,000 An | 600,000 An | 1.00 million An | 10 |
| 2010s | 384,239 An | 321,409 An | 426,055 An | 10 |
| 2020s | 465,264 An | 410,633 An | 508,374 An | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Ecuador
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 10.59 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.097 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 691.36 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.4287 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3661 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 9.7% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 9.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 3.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Ecuador?
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Ecuador was 410,633 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 Ecuador?
- The highest recorded value was 1.00 million An in 2003.
- What is the lowest meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Ecuador?
- The lowest recorded value was 203,000 An in 1988.
- How does Ecuador rank for meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered?
- Ecuador ranks 84th out of 179 countries with data for 2024.
- Is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in Ecuador?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ecuador 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.