Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight in Greece
Greece: Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight was 11 kg/An in 2024. ▲ Rising
Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight in Greece, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/An.
Analysis
Greece recorded 11 kg/An for meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight in 2024.
That represents a change of unchanged over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight in Greece peaked at 12 kg/An in 1979 and was at its lowest, 7 kg/An, in 1961.
That places Greece 150th out of 179 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight in Greece, year by year
| Year | kg/An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 7 kg/An | — |
| 1962 | 7 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 7 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 8 kg/An | +14.3% |
| 1965 | 9 kg/An | +12.5% |
| 1966 | 9 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 9 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 9 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 9 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 9 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 10 kg/An | +11.1% |
| 1972 | 10 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 11 kg/An | +10.0% |
| 1974 | 10 kg/An | -9.1% |
| 1975 | 10 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 11 kg/An | +10.0% |
| 1977 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 12 kg/An | +9.1% |
| 1980 | 11 kg/An | -8.3% |
| 1981 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 10 kg/An | -9.1% |
| 1986 | 12 kg/An | +20.0% |
| 1987 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 11 kg/An | -8.3% |
| 1989 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1991 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1992 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1993 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1994 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1995 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1997 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1998 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1999 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2000 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2001 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2002 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 12 kg/An | +9.1% |
| 2022 | 12 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 11 kg/An | -8.3% |
| 2024 | 11 kg/An | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 8.22 kg/An | 7 kg/An | 9 kg/An | 9 |
| 1970s | 10.5 kg/An | 9 kg/An | 12 kg/An | 10 |
| 1980s | 11.1 kg/An | 10 kg/An | 12 kg/An | 10 |
| 1990s | 11 kg/An | 11 kg/An | 11 kg/An | 10 |
| 2000s | 11 kg/An | 11 kg/An | 11 kg/An | 10 |
| 2010s | 11 kg/An | 11 kg/An | 11 kg/An | 10 |
| 2020s | 11.4 kg/An | 11 kg/An | 12 kg/An | 5 |
Countries ranked near Greece
- 150 Cameroon 11 kg/An compare
- 150 Equatorial Guinea 11 kg/An compare
- 150 Faroe Islands 11 kg/An compare
- 150 Malawi 11 kg/An compare
- 150 Martinique 11 kg/An compare
- 150 Morocco 11 kg/An compare
- 150 Sierra Leone 11 kg/An compare
- 150 Uganda 11 kg/An compare
- 150 Yugoslav SFR 11 kg/An compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight in Greece?
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight in Greece was 11 kg/An in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight recorded in Greece?
- The highest recorded value was 12 kg/An in 1979.
- What is the lowest meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight recorded in Greece?
- The lowest recorded value was 7 kg/An in 1961.
- How does Greece rank for meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight?
- Greece ranks 150th out of 179 countries with data for 2024.
- Is meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — yield/carcass weight rising or falling in Greece?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Greece 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 — Yield/Carcass Weight. 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.