Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone: Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 170,920 An in 2024. ▲ Rising
Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Sierra Leone, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in An.
Analysis
Sierra Leone recorded 170,920 An for meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.9% on the previous year and down 6.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Sierra Leone peaked at 182,390 An in 2019 and was at its lowest, 48,000 An, in 2001.
Sierra Leone ranks 100th 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 Sierra Leone, year by year
| Year | An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 60,000 An | — |
| 1962 | 61,000 An | +1.7% |
| 1963 | 63,000 An | +3.3% |
| 1964 | 65,000 An | +3.2% |
| 1965 | 66,000 An | +1.5% |
| 1966 | 68,000 An | +3.0% |
| 1967 | 71,000 An | +4.4% |
| 1968 | 72,000 An | +1.4% |
| 1969 | 73,000 An | +1.4% |
| 1970 | 75,000 An | +2.7% |
| 1971 | 76,000 An | +1.3% |
| 1972 | 79,000 An | +3.9% |
| 1973 | 81,000 An | +2.5% |
| 1974 | 82,000 An | +1.2% |
| 1975 | 85,000 An | +3.7% |
| 1976 | 88,000 An | +3.5% |
| 1977 | 90,000 An | +2.3% |
| 1978 | 93,000 An | +3.3% |
| 1979 | 96,000 An | +3.2% |
| 1980 | 99,000 An | +3.1% |
| 1981 | 103,000 An | +4.0% |
| 1982 | 108,000 An | +4.9% |
| 1983 | 113,000 An | +4.6% |
| 1984 | 105,000 An | -7.1% |
| 1985 | 100,000 An | -4.8% |
| 1986 | 96,000 An | -4.0% |
| 1987 | 86,000 An | -10.4% |
| 1988 | 93,000 An | +8.1% |
| 1989 | 93,500 An | +0.5% |
| 1990 | 94,000 An | +0.5% |
| 1991 | 95,000 An | +1.1% |
| 1992 | 96,500 An | +1.6% |
| 1993 | 99,500 An | +3.1% |
| 1994 | 105,000 An | +5.5% |
| 1995 | 89,000 An | -15.2% |
| 1996 | 77,000 An | -13.5% |
| 1997 | 67,000 An | -13.0% |
| 1998 | 67,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1999 | 65,000 An | -3.0% |
| 2000 | 65,000 An | +0.0% |
| 2001 | 48,000 An | -26.2% |
| 2002 | 48,000 An | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 54,000 An | +12.5% |
| 2004 | 60,000 An | +11.1% |
| 2005 | 66,000 An | +10.0% |
| 2006 | 78,000 An | +18.2% |
| 2007 | 95,000 An | +21.8% |
| 2008 | 110,000 An | +15.8% |
| 2009 | 150,000 An | +36.4% |
| 2010 | 155,000 An | +3.3% |
| 2011 | 170,000 An | +9.7% |
| 2012 | 175,000 An | +2.9% |
| 2013 | 177,000 An | +1.1% |
| 2014 | 182,338 An | +3.0% |
| 2015 | 180,298 An | -1.1% |
| 2016 | 180,000 An | -0.2% |
| 2017 | 180,000 An | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 176,246 An | -2.1% |
| 2019 | 182,390 An | +3.5% |
| 2020 | 177,624 An | -2.6% |
| 2021 | 175,213 An | -1.4% |
| 2022 | 173,808 An | -0.8% |
| 2023 | 172,399 An | -0.8% |
| 2024 | 170,920 An | -0.9% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 66,556 An | 60,000 An | 73,000 An | 9 |
| 1970s | 84,500 An | 75,000 An | 96,000 An | 10 |
| 1980s | 99,650 An | 86,000 An | 113,000 An | 10 |
| 1990s | 85,500 An | 65,000 An | 105,000 An | 10 |
| 2000s | 77,400 An | 48,000 An | 150,000 An | 10 |
| 2010s | 175,827 An | 155,000 An | 182,390 An | 10 |
| 2020s | 173,993 An | 170,920 An | 177,624 An | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Sierra Leone
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 8.47 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2954 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 250 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0006 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5407 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 29.5% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 29.5% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 9.4% (2018)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2018)
Frequently asked questions
- What is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Sierra Leone?
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Sierra Leone was 170,920 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 Sierra Leone?
- The highest recorded value was 182,390 An in 2019.
- What is the lowest meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Sierra Leone?
- The lowest recorded value was 48,000 An in 2001.
- How does Sierra Leone rank for meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered?
- Sierra Leone ranks 100th out of 179 countries with data for 2024.
- Is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in Sierra Leone?
- Over the last ten years it is down 6.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Sierra Leone 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.