Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
Least Developed Countries (LDCs): Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 76.44 million An in 2024. ▲ Rising
Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), 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 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) is 76.44 million An, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 0.5% on the previous year and up 16.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) peaked at 76.81 million An in 2023 and was at its lowest, 21.95 million An, in 1961.
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 Least Developed Countries (LDCs), year by year
| Year | An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 21.95 million An | — |
| 1962 | 22.45 million An | +2.3% |
| 1963 | 23.18 million An | +3.2% |
| 1964 | 23.95 million An | +3.3% |
| 1965 | 24.38 million An | +1.8% |
| 1966 | 25.15 million An | +3.1% |
| 1967 | 25.77 million An | +2.5% |
| 1968 | 26.99 million An | +4.7% |
| 1969 | 26.57 million An | -1.5% |
| 1970 | 27.01 million An | +1.7% |
| 1971 | 27.08 million An | +0.3% |
| 1972 | 26.44 million An | -2.4% |
| 1973 | 26.91 million An | +1.8% |
| 1974 | 26.81 million An | -0.3% |
| 1975 | 28.17 million An | +5.1% |
| 1976 | 30.36 million An | +7.8% |
| 1977 | 31.48 million An | +3.7% |
| 1978 | 32.25 million An | +2.5% |
| 1979 | 32.84 million An | +1.8% |
| 1980 | 34.08 million An | +3.8% |
| 1981 | 34.94 million An | +2.5% |
| 1982 | 34.33 million An | -1.7% |
| 1983 | 33.99 million An | -1.0% |
| 1984 | 33.36 million An | -1.9% |
| 1985 | 33.36 million An | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 31.87 million An | -4.5% |
| 1987 | 32.33 million An | +1.4% |
| 1988 | 33.28 million An | +2.9% |
| 1989 | 34.66 million An | +4.2% |
| 1990 | 35.74 million An | +3.1% |
| 1991 | 34.05 million An | -4.7% |
| 1992 | 33.90 million An | -0.4% |
| 1993 | 31.40 million An | -7.4% |
| 1994 | 32.78 million An | +4.4% |
| 1995 | 34.35 million An | +4.8% |
| 1996 | 36.78 million An | +7.1% |
| 1997 | 39.81 million An | +8.2% |
| 1998 | 45.16 million An | +13.4% |
| 1999 | 47.29 million An | +4.7% |
| 2000 | 46.45 million An | -1.8% |
| 2001 | 48.54 million An | +4.5% |
| 2002 | 47.48 million An | -2.2% |
| 2003 | 49.07 million An | +3.4% |
| 2004 | 51.34 million An | +4.6% |
| 2005 | 54.10 million An | +5.4% |
| 2006 | 58.16 million An | +7.5% |
| 2007 | 58.83 million An | +1.2% |
| 2008 | 62.54 million An | +6.3% |
| 2009 | 63.06 million An | +0.8% |
| 2010 | 66.60 million An | +5.6% |
| 2011 | 62.78 million An | -5.7% |
| 2012 | 62.38 million An | -0.6% |
| 2013 | 63.94 million An | +2.5% |
| 2014 | 65.43 million An | +2.3% |
| 2015 | 66.10 million An | +1.0% |
| 2016 | 66.60 million An | +0.8% |
| 2017 | 66.97 million An | +0.6% |
| 2018 | 67.01 million An | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 71.04 million An | +6.0% |
| 2020 | 74.22 million An | +4.5% |
| 2021 | 75.99 million An | +2.4% |
| 2022 | 76.38 million An | +0.5% |
| 2023 | 76.81 million An | +0.6% |
| 2024 | 76.44 million An | -0.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 24.49 million An | 21.95 million An | 26.99 million An | 9 |
| 1970s | 28.94 million An | 26.44 million An | 32.84 million An | 10 |
| 1980s | 33.62 million An | 31.87 million An | 34.94 million An | 10 |
| 1990s | 37.13 million An | 31.40 million An | 47.29 million An | 10 |
| 2000s | 53.96 million An | 46.45 million An | 63.06 million An | 10 |
| 2010s | 65.89 million An | 62.38 million An | 71.04 million An | 10 |
| 2020s | 75.97 million An | 74.22 million An | 76.81 million An | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) was 76.44 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 Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 76.81 million An in 2023.
- What is the lowest meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 21.95 million An in 1961.
- How does Least Developed Countries (LDCs) rank for meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered?
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) ranks 2nd out of 16 groups with data for 2024.
- Is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 16.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 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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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.