Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Production in Mongolia
Mongolia: Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Production was 133,288 t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Production in Mongolia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
Mongolia recorded 133,288 t for meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — production in 2024.
The figure is down 28.2% on the previous year and up 46.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — production in Mongolia peaked at 213,899 t in 2020 and was at its lowest, 46,000 t, in 1961.
That places Mongolia 20th out of 179 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Production in Mongolia, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 46,000 t | — |
| 1962 | 52,000 t | +13.0% |
| 1963 | 55,000 t | +5.8% |
| 1964 | 50,000 t | -9.1% |
| 1965 | 52,000 t | +4.0% |
| 1966 | 52,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 56,000 t | +7.7% |
| 1968 | 60,000 t | +7.1% |
| 1969 | 67,100 t | +11.8% |
| 1970 | 70,000 t | +4.3% |
| 1971 | 68,000 t | -2.9% |
| 1972 | 72,000 t | +5.9% |
| 1973 | 70,000 t | -2.8% |
| 1974 | 84,000 t | +20.0% |
| 1975 | 100,000 t | +19.0% |
| 1976 | 86,000 t | -14.0% |
| 1977 | 76,000 t | -11.6% |
| 1978 | 92,000 t | +21.1% |
| 1979 | 90,000 t | -2.2% |
| 1980 | 92,000 t | +2.2% |
| 1981 | 104,900 t | +14.0% |
| 1982 | 110,200 t | +5.1% |
| 1983 | 102,800 t | -6.7% |
| 1984 | 104,800 t | +1.9% |
| 1985 | 96,900 t | -7.5% |
| 1986 | 102,100 t | +5.4% |
| 1987 | 99,500 t | -2.5% |
| 1988 | 94,700 t | -4.8% |
| 1989 | 103,000 t | +8.8% |
| 1990 | 107,600 t | +4.5% |
| 1991 | 112,700 t | +4.7% |
| 1992 | 96,900 t | -14.0% |
| 1993 | 96,600 t | -0.3% |
| 1994 | 95,900 t | -0.7% |
| 1995 | 93,500 t | -2.5% |
| 1996 | 93,200 t | -0.3% |
| 1997 | 78,500 t | -15.8% |
| 1998 | 90,100 t | +14.8% |
| 1999 | 96,675 t | +7.3% |
| 2000 | 90,000 t | -6.9% |
| 2001 | 76,600 t | -14.9% |
| 2002 | 74,900 t | -2.2% |
| 2003 | 61,900 t | -17.4% |
| 2004 | 65,100 t | +5.2% |
| 2005 | 57,400 t | -11.8% |
| 2006 | 55,400 t | -3.5% |
| 2007 | 68,400 t | +23.5% |
| 2008 | 72,300 t | +5.7% |
| 2009 | 91,243 t | +26.2% |
| 2010 | 77,369 t | -15.2% |
| 2011 | 76,034 t | -1.7% |
| 2012 | 67,240 t | -11.6% |
| 2013 | 92,414 t | +37.4% |
| 2014 | 91,299 t | -1.2% |
| 2015 | 134,546 t | +47.4% |
| 2016 | 116,172 t | -13.7% |
| 2017 | 126,656 t | +9.0% |
| 2018 | 152,706 t | +20.6% |
| 2019 | 168,441 t | +10.3% |
| 2020 | 213,899 t | +27.0% |
| 2021 | 143,034 t | -33.1% |
| 2022 | 191,211 t | +33.7% |
| 2023 | 185,509 t | -3.0% |
| 2024 | 133,288 t | -28.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 54,456 t | 46,000 t | 67,100 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 80,800 t | 68,000 t | 100,000 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 101,090 t | 92,000 t | 110,200 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 96,168 t | 78,500 t | 112,700 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 71,324 t | 55,400 t | 91,243 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 110,288 t | 67,240 t | 168,441 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 173,388 t | 133,288 t | 213,899 t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Mongolia
- 17 Saudi Arabia 166,976 t compare
- 18 Nigeria 162,751 t compare
- 19 Ethiopia 136,081 t compare
- 21 Kazakhstan 132,698 t compare
- 22 Morocco 129,000 t compare
- 23 Turkmenistan 123,921 t compare
More agriculture & rural data for Mongolia
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 30.71 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0894 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 635.39 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.5968 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2885 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 8.9% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 8.9% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.7% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — production in Mongolia?
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — production in Mongolia was 133,288 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — production recorded in Mongolia?
- The highest recorded value was 213,899 t in 2020.
- What is the lowest meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — production recorded in Mongolia?
- The lowest recorded value was 46,000 t in 1961.
- How does Mongolia rank for meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — production?
- Mongolia ranks 20th out of 179 countries with data for 2024.
- Is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — production rising or falling in Mongolia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 46.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Mongolia 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 — Production. 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.