Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 8,000 An in 1990. ▼ Falling
Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Sri Lanka, 1961–1990
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 Sri Lanka is 8,000 An, measured in 1990. That is the lowest value across all 30 years on record.
The figure is down 20.0% on the previous year and down 42.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Sri Lanka peaked at 16,000 An in 1967 and was at its lowest, 8,000 An, in 1990.
That places Sri Lanka 145th out of 179 countries with data for 1990, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 30 years of available data.
Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Sri Lanka, year by year
| Year | An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 13,000 An | — |
| 1962 | 12,000 An | -7.7% |
| 1963 | 12,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 13,000 An | +8.3% |
| 1965 | 14,000 An | +7.7% |
| 1966 | 14,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 16,000 An | +14.3% |
| 1968 | 15,000 An | -6.2% |
| 1969 | 13,000 An | -13.3% |
| 1970 | 13,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 12,000 An | -7.7% |
| 1972 | 11,000 An | -8.3% |
| 1973 | 12,000 An | +9.1% |
| 1974 | 14,000 An | +16.7% |
| 1975 | 14,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 13,000 An | -7.1% |
| 1977 | 13,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 13,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 12,000 An | -7.7% |
| 1980 | 14,000 An | +16.7% |
| 1981 | 14,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 16,000 An | +14.3% |
| 1983 | 13,000 An | -18.8% |
| 1984 | 15,000 An | +15.4% |
| 1985 | 14,000 An | -6.7% |
| 1986 | 12,000 An | -14.3% |
| 1987 | 11,000 An | -8.3% |
| 1988 | 10,000 An | -9.1% |
| 1989 | 10,000 An | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 8,000 An | -20.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 13,556 An | 12,000 An | 16,000 An | 9 |
| 1970s | 12,700 An | 11,000 An | 14,000 An | 10 |
| 1980s | 12,900 An | 10,000 An | 16,000 An | 10 |
| 1990s | 8,000 An | 8,000 An | 8,000 An | 1 |
Countries ranked near Sri Lanka
- 142 Equatorial Guinea 9,791 An compare
- 143 Eswatini 9,465 An compare
- 144 Philippines 8,967 An compare
- 146 Martinique 7,120 An compare
- 147 Japan 6,987 An compare
- 148 Comoros 6,673 An compare
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 9.1 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0836 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 418.3 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.9172 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.7955 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 8.4% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 8.4% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.7% (2024)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Sri Lanka?
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered in Sri Lanka was 8,000 An in 1990, 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 Sri Lanka?
- The highest recorded value was 16,000 An in 1967.
- What is the lowest meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,000 An in 1990.
- How does Sri Lanka rank for meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered?
- Sri Lanka ranks 145th out of 179 countries with data for 1990.
- Is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in Sri Lanka?
- Over the last ten years it is down 42.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Sri Lanka 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.