Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Production in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)
Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs): Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Production was 1.94 million t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Production in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) recorded 1.94 million t for meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — production in 2024.
The figure is down 2.5% on the previous year and up 20.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — production in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) peaked at 1.99 million t in 2023 and was at its lowest, 523,230 t, in 1961.
Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) ranks 4th of 29 groups on this measure, 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 Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs), year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 523,230 t | — |
| 1962 | 529,218 t | +1.1% |
| 1963 | 539,687 t | +2.0% |
| 1964 | 552,827 t | +2.4% |
| 1965 | 572,374 t | +3.5% |
| 1966 | 593,400 t | +3.7% |
| 1967 | 610,008 t | +2.8% |
| 1968 | 631,217 t | +3.5% |
| 1969 | 637,422 t | +1.0% |
| 1970 | 641,834 t | +0.7% |
| 1971 | 641,272 t | -0.1% |
| 1972 | 635,421 t | -0.9% |
| 1973 | 651,569 t | +2.5% |
| 1974 | 664,787 t | +2.0% |
| 1975 | 715,412 t | +7.6% |
| 1976 | 745,047 t | +4.1% |
| 1977 | 775,304 t | +4.1% |
| 1978 | 811,560 t | +4.7% |
| 1979 | 816,659 t | +0.6% |
| 1980 | 834,150 t | +2.1% |
| 1981 | 882,638 t | +5.8% |
| 1982 | 866,337 t | -1.8% |
| 1983 | 873,608 t | +0.8% |
| 1984 | 880,793 t | +0.8% |
| 1985 | 895,080 t | +1.6% |
| 1986 | 870,658 t | -2.7% |
| 1987 | 899,416 t | +3.3% |
| 1988 | 960,872 t | +6.8% |
| 1989 | 1.01 million t | +5.0% |
| 1990 | 1.04 million t | +3.2% |
| 1991 | 1.03 million t | -0.9% |
| 1992 | 1.05 million t | +1.6% |
| 1993 | 1.03 million t | -1.9% |
| 1994 | 1.06 million t | +3.0% |
| 1995 | 1.10 million t | +3.7% |
| 1996 | 1.00 million t | -8.6% |
| 1997 | 1.06 million t | +6.0% |
| 1998 | 1.16 million t | +8.8% |
| 1999 | 1.26 million t | +8.5% |
| 2000 | 1.25 million t | -0.9% |
| 2001 | 1.32 million t | +6.1% |
| 2002 | 1.30 million t | -1.8% |
| 2003 | 1.29 million t | -0.3% |
| 2004 | 1.33 million t | +2.5% |
| 2005 | 1.37 million t | +3.2% |
| 2006 | 1.38 million t | +0.8% |
| 2007 | 1.41 million t | +2.4% |
| 2008 | 1.46 million t | +3.5% |
| 2009 | 1.51 million t | +3.4% |
| 2010 | 1.56 million t | +3.0% |
| 2011 | 1.60 million t | +2.8% |
| 2012 | 1.57 million t | -2.0% |
| 2013 | 1.58 million t | +0.8% |
| 2014 | 1.61 million t | +1.9% |
| 2015 | 1.70 million t | +5.6% |
| 2016 | 1.71 million t | +0.4% |
| 2017 | 1.71 million t | +0.4% |
| 2018 | 1.76 million t | +2.6% |
| 2019 | 1.84 million t | +4.8% |
| 2020 | 1.98 million t | +7.5% |
| 2021 | 1.92 million t | -3.1% |
| 2022 | 1.96 million t | +2.1% |
| 2023 | 1.99 million t | +1.4% |
| 2024 | 1.94 million t | -2.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 576,598 t | 523,230 t | 637,422 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 709,886 t | 635,421 t | 816,659 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 897,208 t | 834,150 t | 1.01 million t | 10 |
| 1990s | 1.08 million t | 1.00 million t | 1.26 million t | 10 |
| 2000s | 1.36 million t | 1.25 million t | 1.51 million t | 10 |
| 2010s | 1.66 million t | 1.56 million t | 1.84 million t | 10 |
| 2020s | 1.96 million t | 1.92 million t | 1.99 million t | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — production in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — production in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) was 1.94 million 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 Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 1.99 million t in 2023.
- What is the lowest meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — production recorded in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 523,230 t in 1961.
- How does Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) rank for meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — production?
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) ranks 4th out of 29 groups with data for 2024.
- Is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — production rising or falling in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 20.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 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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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.