Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in South Sudan
South Sudan: Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 1.54 million An in 2024. ▼ Falling
Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in South Sudan, 2012–2024
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 South Sudan is 1.54 million An, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 3.2% on the previous year and down 32.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in South Sudan peaked at 2.29 million An in 2012 and was at its lowest, 1.35 million An, in 2020.
That places South Sudan 53rd 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 13 years of available data.
Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in South Sudan, year by year
| Year | An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2.29 million An | — |
| 2013 | 2.26 million An | -1.4% |
| 2014 | 2.29 million An | +1.1% |
| 2015 | 2.14 million An | -6.6% |
| 2016 | 2.23 million An | +4.3% |
| 2017 | 1.89 million An | -15.0% |
| 2018 | 1.73 million An | -8.4% |
| 2019 | 1.92 million An | +10.5% |
| 2020 | 1.35 million An | -29.7% |
| 2021 | 1.52 million An | +13.1% |
| 2022 | 1.60 million An | +4.7% |
| 2023 | 1.49 million An | -6.7% |
| 2024 | 1.54 million An | +3.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 2.09 million An | 1.73 million An | 2.29 million An | 8 |
| 2020s | 1.50 million An | 1.35 million An | 1.60 million An | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for South Sudan
- Rural population, per capita 0.7832 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 17.13 % change on previous year (2015)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1036 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2015)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 111.85 current US$ per person (2015)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0008 units per US$ of GDP (2015)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.66 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 10.4% (2015)
- Rural population 9.55 million (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 10.4% (2015)
Frequently asked questions
- What is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in South Sudan?
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in South Sudan was 1.54 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 South Sudan?
- The highest recorded value was 2.29 million An in 2012.
- What is the lowest meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in South Sudan?
- The lowest recorded value was 1.35 million An in 2020.
- How does South Sudan rank for meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered?
- South Sudan ranks 53rd out of 179 countries with data for 2024.
- Is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in South Sudan?
- Over the last ten years it is down 32.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this South Sudan 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.