Meat, Poultry — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in European Union (27)
European Union (27): Meat, Poultry — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 7.01 million 1000 An in 2024. ▲ Rising
Meat, Poultry — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in European Union (27), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 An.
Analysis
In 2024, meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered in European Union (27) stood at 7.01 million 1000 An. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 3.9% on the previous year and up 11.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered in European Union (27) peaked at 7.01 million 1000 An in 2024 and was at its lowest, 1.30 million 1000 An, in 1961.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1.85 million 1000 An | 1.30 million 1000 An | 2.33 million 1000 An | 9 |
| 1970s | 3.29 million 1000 An | 2.56 million 1000 An | 3.99 million 1000 An | 10 |
| 1980s | 4.34 million 1000 An | 4.10 million 1000 An | 4.58 million 1000 An | 10 |
| 1990s | 4.88 million 1000 An | 4.37 million 1000 An | 5.42 million 1000 An | 10 |
| 2000s | 5.42 million 1000 An | 5.11 million 1000 An | 5.76 million 1000 An | 10 |
| 2010s | 6.29 million 1000 An | 5.75 million 1000 An | 6.79 million 1000 An | 10 |
| 2020s | 6.75 million 1000 An | 6.60 million 1000 An | 7.01 million 1000 An | 5 |
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- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 223.89 million An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 232,110 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 16.90 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 95 kg/An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 21.26 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Production 669,430 t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 100,090 t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 21,250 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 72,820 kg/ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 41,140 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered in European Union (27)?
- Meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered in European Union (27) was 7.01 million 1000 An in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in European Union (27)?
- The highest recorded value was 7.01 million 1000 An in 2024.
- What is the lowest meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in European Union (27)?
- The lowest recorded value was 1.30 million 1000 An in 1961.
- How does European Union (27) rank for meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered?
- European Union (27) ranks 6th out of 10 groups with data for 2024.
- Is meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in European Union (27)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 11.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this European Union (27) data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Meat, Poultry — 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.