Meat, Poultry — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Western Europe
Western Europe: Meat, Poultry — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 2.54 million 1000 An in 2024. ▲ Rising
Meat, Poultry — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Western Europe, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 An.
Analysis
Western Europe recorded 2.54 million 1000 An for meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 2.6% on the previous year and down 7.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered in Western Europe peaked at 2.82 million 1000 An in 2015 and was at its lowest, 645,467 1000 An, in 1961.
Western Europe ranks 19th of 33 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 813,567 1000 An | 645,467 1000 An | 1.00 million 1000 An | 9 |
| 1970s | 1.31 million 1000 An | 1.11 million 1000 An | 1.52 million 1000 An | 10 |
| 1980s | 1.80 million 1000 An | 1.59 million 1000 An | 1.95 million 1000 An | 10 |
| 1990s | 2.21 million 1000 An | 1.93 million 1000 An | 2.52 million 1000 An | 10 |
| 2000s | 2.42 million 1000 An | 2.29 million 1000 An | 2.58 million 1000 An | 10 |
| 2010s | 2.70 million 1000 An | 2.58 million 1000 An | 2.82 million 1000 An | 10 |
| 2020s | 2.53 million 1000 An | 2.48 million 1000 An | 2.63 million 1000 An | 5 |
Countries ranked near Western Europe
- 16 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1.20 million 1000 An compare
- 17 Republic of Korea 1.11 million 1000 An compare
- 18 Colombia 1.07 million 1000 An compare
- 19 Australia and New Zealand 878,946 1000 An compare
- 20 France 866,251 1000 An compare
- 21 Japan 846,707 1000 An compare
- 22 Canada 831,328 1000 An compare
More agriculture & rural data for Western Europe
- Bananas — Area harvested 11,010 ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 1,412 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 2.01 million t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 219,568 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 9,144 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 210,920 t (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 52.45 million An (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 3,406 t (2024)
- Sheep and Goats — Stocks 11.91 million An (2024)
- Cabbages — Production 1.38 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered in Western Europe?
- Meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered in Western Europe was 2.54 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 Western Europe?
- The highest recorded value was 2.82 million 1000 An in 2015.
- What is the lowest meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Western Europe?
- The lowest recorded value was 645,467 1000 An in 1961.
- How does Western Europe rank for meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered?
- Western Europe ranks 19th out of 33 groups with data for 2024.
- Is meat, poultry — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in Western Europe?
- Over the last ten years it is down 7.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Western Europe 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.
Download this data
CSV · JSON — 64 observations, free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO).
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.