Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Somalia
Somalia: Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 2.44 million An in 2024. ▲ Rising
Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Somalia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in An.
Analysis
Somalia recorded 2.44 million An for meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in 2024.
The figure is down 10.0% on the previous year and down 31.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Somalia peaked at 4.10 million An in 2005 and was at its lowest, 740,000 An, in 1961.
Somalia ranks 46th 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 Somalia, year by year
| Year | An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 740,000 An | — |
| 1962 | 785,000 An | +6.1% |
| 1963 | 834,000 An | +6.2% |
| 1964 | 834,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 897,000 An | +7.6% |
| 1966 | 900,000 An | +0.3% |
| 1967 | 967,000 An | +7.4% |
| 1968 | 1.01 million An | +4.0% |
| 1969 | 1.11 million An | +10.8% |
| 1970 | 1.20 million An | +7.8% |
| 1971 | 1.19 million An | -0.8% |
| 1972 | 1.26 million An | +5.5% |
| 1973 | 1.36 million An | +8.4% |
| 1974 | 1.26 million An | -7.6% |
| 1975 | 1.28 million An | +1.9% |
| 1976 | 1.58 million An | +23.5% |
| 1977 | 1.88 million An | +18.9% |
| 1978 | 1.89 million An | +0.4% |
| 1979 | 1.86 million An | -1.5% |
| 1980 | 2.06 million An | +10.6% |
| 1981 | 1.96 million An | -5.0% |
| 1982 | 1.78 million An | -8.8% |
| 1983 | 1.92 million An | +7.8% |
| 1984 | 2.04 million An | +6.3% |
| 1985 | 2.30 million An | +12.6% |
| 1986 | 2.00 million An | -13.1% |
| 1987 | 2.48 million An | +24.0% |
| 1988 | 2.36 million An | -4.9% |
| 1989 | 2.57 million An | +8.9% |
| 1990 | 2.60 million An | +1.2% |
| 1991 | 2.30 million An | -11.5% |
| 1992 | 1.80 million An | -21.7% |
| 1993 | 1.90 million An | +5.6% |
| 1994 | 2.00 million An | +5.3% |
| 1995 | 2.10 million An | +5.0% |
| 1996 | 2.20 million An | +4.8% |
| 1997 | 2.00 million An | -9.1% |
| 1998 | 3.00 million An | +50.0% |
| 1999 | 2.30 million An | -23.3% |
| 2000 | 2.70 million An | +17.4% |
| 2001 | 3.60 million An | +33.3% |
| 2002 | 3.10 million An | -13.9% |
| 2003 | 3.70 million An | +19.4% |
| 2004 | 4.00 million An | +8.1% |
| 2005 | 4.10 million An | +2.5% |
| 2006 | 3.70 million An | -9.8% |
| 2007 | 3.33 million An | -10.0% |
| 2008 | 3.32 million An | -0.3% |
| 2009 | 3.30 million An | -0.6% |
| 2010 | 3.35 million An | +1.5% |
| 2011 | 3.40 million An | +1.5% |
| 2012 | 3.50 million An | +2.9% |
| 2013 | 3.50 million An | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 3.56 million An | +1.7% |
| 2015 | 3.55 million An | -0.2% |
| 2016 | 3.39 million An | -4.4% |
| 2017 | 3.25 million An | -4.1% |
| 2018 | 3.22 million An | -0.9% |
| 2019 | 3.25 million An | +0.8% |
| 2020 | 3.36 million An | +3.3% |
| 2021 | 3.16 million An | -5.8% |
| 2022 | 2.96 million An | -6.5% |
| 2023 | 2.71 million An | -8.2% |
| 2024 | 2.44 million An | -10.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 897,556 An | 740,000 An | 1.11 million An | 9 |
| 1970s | 1.48 million An | 1.19 million An | 1.89 million An | 10 |
| 1980s | 2.15 million An | 1.78 million An | 2.57 million An | 10 |
| 1990s | 2.22 million An | 1.80 million An | 3.00 million An | 10 |
| 2000s | 3.48 million An | 2.70 million An | 4.10 million An | 10 |
| 2010s | 3.40 million An | 3.22 million An | 3.56 million An | 10 |
| 2020s | 2.93 million An | 2.44 million An | 3.36 million An | 5 |
Countries ranked near Somalia
More agriculture & rural data for Somalia
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -13.31 % change on previous year (1990)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.5579 current US$ per US$ of GDP (1990)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 81.24 current US$ per person (1990)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 2.21 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0007 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4486 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 55.8% (1990)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 55.8% (1990)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.7% (1982)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 7.1% (1982)
Frequently asked questions
- What is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Somalia?
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Somalia was 2.44 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 Somalia?
- The highest recorded value was 4.10 million An in 2005.
- What is the lowest meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Somalia?
- The lowest recorded value was 740,000 An in 1961.
- How does Somalia rank for meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered?
- Somalia ranks 46th out of 179 countries with data for 2024.
- Is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in Somalia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 31.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Somalia 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.