Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Southern Africa
Southern Africa: Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 5.70 million An in 2024. ▼ Falling
Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Southern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in An.
Analysis
Southern Africa recorded 5.70 million An for meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in 2024.
That represents a change of down 0.8% on the previous year and down 22.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Southern Africa peaked at 13.70 million An in 1969 and was at its lowest, 5.47 million An, in 2019.
Southern Africa ranks 22nd of 29 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
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 Southern Africa, year by year
| Year | An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 9.38 million An | — |
| 1962 | 10.41 million An | +10.9% |
| 1963 | 10.80 million An | +3.8% |
| 1964 | 11.16 million An | +3.3% |
| 1965 | 11.52 million An | +3.2% |
| 1966 | 11.87 million An | +3.1% |
| 1967 | 12.22 million An | +2.9% |
| 1968 | 12.53 million An | +2.6% |
| 1969 | 13.70 million An | +9.3% |
| 1970 | 11.62 million An | -15.2% |
| 1971 | 12.20 million An | +5.0% |
| 1972 | 11.20 million An | -8.2% |
| 1973 | 10.20 million An | -8.9% |
| 1974 | 9.86 million An | -3.4% |
| 1975 | 10.30 million An | +4.5% |
| 1976 | 10.42 million An | +1.2% |
| 1977 | 10.36 million An | -0.6% |
| 1978 | 11.08 million An | +7.0% |
| 1979 | 11.29 million An | +1.9% |
| 1980 | 11.30 million An | +0.1% |
| 1981 | 11.07 million An | -2.0% |
| 1982 | 10.99 million An | -0.7% |
| 1983 | 10.92 million An | -0.6% |
| 1984 | 10.99 million An | +0.6% |
| 1985 | 11.02 million An | +0.3% |
| 1986 | 9.10 million An | -17.5% |
| 1987 | 10.81 million An | +18.8% |
| 1988 | 10.93 million An | +1.1% |
| 1989 | 11.02 million An | +0.9% |
| 1990 | 10.99 million An | -0.3% |
| 1991 | 11.36 million An | +3.4% |
| 1992 | 11.20 million An | -1.4% |
| 1993 | 10.26 million An | -8.4% |
| 1994 | 10.06 million An | -1.9% |
| 1995 | 9.27 million An | -7.9% |
| 1996 | 7.95 million An | -14.2% |
| 1997 | 7.52 million An | -5.4% |
| 1998 | 7.40 million An | -1.6% |
| 1999 | 9.57 million An | +29.3% |
| 2000 | 9.99 million An | +4.4% |
| 2001 | 7.46 million An | -25.4% |
| 2002 | 7.08 million An | -5.0% |
| 2003 | 6.80 million An | -4.1% |
| 2004 | 6.57 million An | -3.3% |
| 2005 | 6.84 million An | +4.1% |
| 2006 | 7.00 million An | +2.4% |
| 2007 | 6.07 million An | -13.2% |
| 2008 | 6.60 million An | +8.7% |
| 2009 | 7.01 million An | +6.2% |
| 2010 | 6.94 million An | -1.0% |
| 2011 | 6.20 million An | -10.6% |
| 2012 | 6.95 million An | +11.9% |
| 2013 | 7.19 million An | +3.5% |
| 2014 | 7.34 million An | +2.2% |
| 2015 | 7.11 million An | -3.1% |
| 2016 | 6.45 million An | -9.3% |
| 2017 | 6.10 million An | -5.4% |
| 2018 | 5.66 million An | -7.2% |
| 2019 | 5.47 million An | -3.3% |
| 2020 | 6.20 million An | +13.3% |
| 2021 | 5.73 million An | -7.6% |
| 2022 | 5.79 million An | +1.0% |
| 2023 | 5.75 million An | -0.7% |
| 2024 | 5.70 million An | -0.8% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 11.51 million An | 9.38 million An | 13.70 million An | 9 |
| 1970s | 10.85 million An | 9.86 million An | 12.20 million An | 10 |
| 1980s | 10.81 million An | 9.10 million An | 11.30 million An | 10 |
| 1990s | 9.56 million An | 7.40 million An | 11.36 million An | 10 |
| 2000s | 7.14 million An | 6.07 million An | 9.99 million An | 10 |
| 2010s | 6.54 million An | 5.47 million An | 7.34 million An | 10 |
| 2020s | 5.83 million An | 5.70 million An | 6.20 million An | 5 |
Countries ranked near Southern Africa
- 19 Ethiopia PDR 8.16 million An compare
- 20 Saudi Arabia 8.05 million An compare
- 21 Spain 7.90 million An compare
- 22 Mongolia 7.81 million An compare
- 23 Brazil 6.83 million An compare
- 24 Kazakhstan 6.53 million An compare
- 25 Tajikistan 6.49 million An compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Southern Africa?
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Southern Africa was 5.70 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 Southern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 13.70 million An in 1969.
- What is the lowest meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Southern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 5.47 million An in 2019.
- How does Southern Africa rank for meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered?
- Southern Africa ranks 22nd out of 29 groups with data for 2024.
- Is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in Southern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is down 22.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Southern Africa 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.