Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Mozambique
Mozambique: Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 42,157 An in 2024. ▼ Falling
Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Mozambique, 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 Mozambique is 42,157 An, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 12.2% on the previous year and up 20.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Mozambique peaked at 80,000 An in 1975 and was at its lowest, 21,579 An, in 2015.
That places Mozambique 130th out of 179 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Mozambique, year by year
| Year | An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 31,000 An | — |
| 1962 | 34,000 An | +9.7% |
| 1963 | 36,000 An | +5.9% |
| 1964 | 39,000 An | +8.3% |
| 1965 | 42,000 An | +7.7% |
| 1966 | 42,400 An | +1.0% |
| 1967 | 41,000 An | -3.3% |
| 1968 | 48,000 An | +17.1% |
| 1969 | 42,000 An | -12.5% |
| 1970 | 45,000 An | +7.1% |
| 1971 | 55,000 An | +22.2% |
| 1972 | 65,600 An | +19.3% |
| 1973 | 54,400 An | -17.1% |
| 1974 | 62,500 An | +14.9% |
| 1975 | 80,000 An | +28.0% |
| 1976 | 45,000 An | -43.8% |
| 1977 | 48,000 An | +6.7% |
| 1978 | 50,000 An | +4.2% |
| 1979 | 52,000 An | +4.0% |
| 1980 | 52,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 54,000 An | +3.8% |
| 1982 | 55,000 An | +1.9% |
| 1983 | 56,000 An | +1.8% |
| 1984 | 57,000 An | +1.8% |
| 1985 | 58,000 An | +1.8% |
| 1986 | 59,000 An | +1.7% |
| 1987 | 60,000 An | +1.7% |
| 1988 | 61,000 An | +1.7% |
| 1989 | 62,000 An | +1.6% |
| 1990 | 63,000 An | +1.6% |
| 1991 | 30,000 An | -52.4% |
| 1992 | 30,800 An | +2.7% |
| 1993 | 34,230 An | +11.1% |
| 1994 | 34,751 An | +1.5% |
| 1995 | 34,387 An | -1.0% |
| 1996 | 33,671 An | -2.1% |
| 1997 | 33,546 An | -0.4% |
| 1998 | 32,000 An | -4.6% |
| 1999 | 32,824 An | +2.6% |
| 2000 | 35,373 An | +7.8% |
| 2001 | 35,081 An | -0.8% |
| 2002 | 38,800 An | +10.6% |
| 2003 | 26,697 An | -31.2% |
| 2004 | 32,525 An | +21.8% |
| 2005 | 37,835 An | +16.3% |
| 2006 | 27,582 An | -27.1% |
| 2007 | 37,241 An | +35.0% |
| 2008 | 46,024 An | +23.6% |
| 2009 | 39,356 An | -14.5% |
| 2010 | 38,199 An | -2.9% |
| 2011 | 37,169 An | -2.7% |
| 2012 | 38,860 An | +4.5% |
| 2013 | 40,314 An | +3.7% |
| 2014 | 34,968 An | -13.3% |
| 2015 | 21,579 An | -38.3% |
| 2016 | 30,225 An | +40.1% |
| 2017 | 35,127 An | +16.2% |
| 2018 | 35,802 An | +1.9% |
| 2019 | 42,834 An | +19.6% |
| 2020 | 27,602 An | -35.6% |
| 2021 | 28,912 An | +4.7% |
| 2022 | 37,267 An | +28.9% |
| 2023 | 48,036 An | +28.9% |
| 2024 | 42,157 An | -12.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 39,489 An | 31,000 An | 48,000 An | 9 |
| 1970s | 55,750 An | 45,000 An | 80,000 An | 10 |
| 1980s | 57,400 An | 52,000 An | 62,000 An | 10 |
| 1990s | 35,921 An | 30,000 An | 63,000 An | 10 |
| 2000s | 35,651 An | 26,697 An | 46,024 An | 10 |
| 2010s | 35,508 An | 21,579 An | 42,834 An | 10 |
| 2020s | 36,795 An | 27,602 An | 48,036 An | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Mozambique?
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Mozambique was 42,157 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 Mozambique?
- The highest recorded value was 80,000 An in 1975.
- What is the lowest meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Mozambique?
- The lowest recorded value was 21,579 An in 2015.
- How does Mozambique rank for meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered?
- Mozambique ranks 130th out of 179 countries with data for 2024.
- Is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in Mozambique?
- Over the last ten years it is up 20.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Mozambique 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.