Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Ghana
Ghana: Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 1.27 million An in 2024. ▲ Rising
Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Ghana, 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 Ghana is 1.27 million An, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 3.0% on the previous year and up 39.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Ghana peaked at 1.27 million An in 2024 and was at its lowest, 282,000 An, in 1962.
That places Ghana 59th 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 Ghana, year by year
| Year | An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 295,000 An | — |
| 1962 | 282,000 An | -4.4% |
| 1963 | 285,000 An | +1.1% |
| 1964 | 310,000 An | +8.8% |
| 1965 | 299,000 An | -3.5% |
| 1966 | 317,000 An | +6.0% |
| 1967 | 324,000 An | +2.2% |
| 1968 | 326,000 An | +0.6% |
| 1969 | 345,000 An | +5.8% |
| 1970 | 345,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 350,000 An | +1.4% |
| 1972 | 369,000 An | +5.4% |
| 1973 | 345,000 An | -6.5% |
| 1974 | 387,000 An | +12.2% |
| 1975 | 415,000 An | +7.2% |
| 1976 | 475,000 An | +14.5% |
| 1977 | 520,000 An | +9.5% |
| 1978 | 515,000 An | -1.0% |
| 1979 | 473,000 An | -8.2% |
| 1980 | 490,000 An | +3.6% |
| 1981 | 500,000 An | +2.0% |
| 1982 | 490,000 An | -2.0% |
| 1983 | 480,000 An | -2.0% |
| 1984 | 477,000 An | -0.6% |
| 1985 | 505,000 An | +5.9% |
| 1986 | 455,000 An | -9.9% |
| 1987 | 497,131 An | +9.3% |
| 1988 | 511,491 An | +2.9% |
| 1989 | 552,981 An | +8.1% |
| 1990 | 555,899 An | +0.5% |
| 1991 | 540,585 An | -2.8% |
| 1992 | 529,000 An | -2.1% |
| 1993 | 530,000 An | +0.2% |
| 1994 | 570,000 An | +7.5% |
| 1995 | 565,000 An | -0.9% |
| 1996 | 575,000 An | +1.8% |
| 1997 | 577,000 An | +0.3% |
| 1998 | 595,000 An | +3.1% |
| 1999 | 611,000 An | +2.7% |
| 2000 | 631,000 An | +3.3% |
| 2001 | 637,500 An | +1.0% |
| 2002 | 672,000 An | +5.4% |
| 2003 | 693,500 An | +3.2% |
| 2004 | 684,680 An | -1.3% |
| 2005 | 661,460 An | -3.4% |
| 2006 | 691,480 An | +4.5% |
| 2007 | 720,000 An | +4.1% |
| 2008 | 750,000 An | +4.2% |
| 2009 | 770,000 An | +2.7% |
| 2010 | 790,000 An | +2.6% |
| 2011 | 820,000 An | +3.8% |
| 2012 | 850,000 An | +3.7% |
| 2013 | 880,000 An | +3.5% |
| 2014 | 910,000 An | +3.4% |
| 2015 | 950,000 An | +4.4% |
| 2016 | 1.00 million An | +5.3% |
| 2017 | 1.05 million An | +5.0% |
| 2018 | 1.09 million An | +3.8% |
| 2019 | 1.10 million An | +0.8% |
| 2020 | 1.14 million An | +4.0% |
| 2021 | 1.18 million An | +3.3% |
| 2022 | 1.21 million An | +2.2% |
| 2023 | 1.23 million An | +2.0% |
| 2024 | 1.27 million An | +3.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 309,222 An | 282,000 An | 345,000 An | 9 |
| 1970s | 419,400 An | 345,000 An | 520,000 An | 10 |
| 1980s | 495,860 An | 455,000 An | 552,981 An | 10 |
| 1990s | 564,848 An | 529,000 An | 611,000 An | 10 |
| 2000s | 691,162 An | 631,000 An | 770,000 An | 10 |
| 2010s | 943,902 An | 790,000 An | 1.10 million An | 10 |
| 2020s | 1.21 million An | 1.14 million An | 1.27 million An | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Ghana
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 41.79 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2128 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 692.99 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.4821 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4108 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 21.3% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 21.3% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Ghana?
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Ghana was 1.27 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 Ghana?
- The highest recorded value was 1.27 million An in 2024.
- What is the lowest meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Ghana?
- The lowest recorded value was 282,000 An in 1962.
- How does Ghana rank for meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered?
- Ghana ranks 59th out of 179 countries with data for 2024.
- Is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in Ghana?
- Over the last ten years it is up 39.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ghana 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.