Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Faroe Islands
Faroe Islands: Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 55,910 An in 2024. ▲ Rising
Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Faroe Islands, 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 Faroe Islands is 55,910 An, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 1.4% on the previous year and up 11.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Faroe Islands peaked at 55,910 An in 2024 and was at its lowest, 0 An, in 1961.
That places Faroe Islands 124th out of 179 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 Faroe Islands, year by year
| Year | An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 0 An | — |
| 1962 | 0 An | — |
| 1963 | 0 An | — |
| 1964 | 0 An | — |
| 1965 | 0 An | — |
| 1966 | 45,800 An | — |
| 1967 | 44,900 An | -2.0% |
| 1968 | 44,800 An | -0.2% |
| 1969 | 43,408 An | -3.1% |
| 1970 | 37,630 An | -13.3% |
| 1971 | 43,085 An | +14.5% |
| 1972 | 45,895 An | +6.5% |
| 1973 | 45,947 An | +0.1% |
| 1974 | 47,254 An | +2.8% |
| 1975 | 46,968 An | -0.6% |
| 1976 | 46,422 An | -1.2% |
| 1977 | 45,864 An | -1.2% |
| 1978 | 30,853 An | -32.7% |
| 1979 | 43,422 An | +40.7% |
| 1980 | 43,422 An | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 45,122 An | +3.9% |
| 1982 | 45,553 An | +1.0% |
| 1983 | 40,916 An | -10.2% |
| 1984 | 43,569 An | +6.5% |
| 1985 | 43,947 An | +0.9% |
| 1986 | 44,565 An | +1.4% |
| 1987 | 45,777 An | +2.7% |
| 1988 | 46,000 An | +0.5% |
| 1989 | 46,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 46,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1991 | 46,680 An | +1.5% |
| 1992 | 46,900 An | +0.5% |
| 1993 | 47,400 An | +1.1% |
| 1994 | 47,400 An | +0.0% |
| 1995 | 47,400 An | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 47,400 An | +0.0% |
| 1997 | 47,400 An | +0.0% |
| 1998 | 47,400 An | +0.0% |
| 1999 | 47,400 An | +0.0% |
| 2000 | 47,400 An | +0.0% |
| 2001 | 47,400 An | +0.0% |
| 2002 | 47,400 An | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 47,400 An | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 47,400 An | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 47,400 An | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 47,000 An | -0.8% |
| 2007 | 48,000 An | +2.1% |
| 2008 | 48,000 An | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 48,000 An | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 48,000 An | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 48,000 An | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 48,000 An | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 50,000 An | +4.2% |
| 2014 | 50,000 An | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 50,514 An | +1.0% |
| 2016 | 51,641 An | +2.2% |
| 2017 | 52,288 An | +1.3% |
| 2018 | 52,977 An | +1.3% |
| 2019 | 53,664 An | +1.3% |
| 2020 | 54,368 An | +1.3% |
| 2021 | 55,187 An | +1.5% |
| 2022 | 54,425 An | -1.4% |
| 2023 | 55,163 An | +1.4% |
| 2024 | 55,910 An | +1.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 19,879 An | 0 An | 45,800 An | 9 |
| 1970s | 43,334 An | 30,853 An | 47,254 An | 10 |
| 1980s | 44,487 An | 40,916 An | 46,000 An | 10 |
| 1990s | 47,138 An | 46,000 An | 47,400 An | 10 |
| 2000s | 47,540 An | 47,000 An | 48,000 An | 10 |
| 2010s | 50,508 An | 48,000 An | 53,664 An | 10 |
| 2020s | 55,011 An | 54,368 An | 55,910 An | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Faroe Islands
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1607 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Rural population growth 0.1% (2025)
- Rural population 33,136 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 16.1% (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 651.17 million current US$ (2024)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6036 units per person (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.0936 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 11,918 current US$ per person (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.7% (2009)
Frequently asked questions
- What is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Faroe Islands?
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Faroe Islands was 55,910 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 Faroe Islands?
- The highest recorded value was 55,910 An in 2024.
- What is the lowest meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Faroe Islands?
- The lowest recorded value was 0 An in 1961.
- How does Faroe Islands rank for meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered?
- Faroe Islands ranks 124th out of 179 countries with data for 2024.
- Is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in Faroe Islands?
- Over the last ten years it is up 11.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Faroe Islands 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.