Meat, Poultry — Yield/Carcass Weight in Malawi
Malawi: Meat, Poultry — Yield/Carcass Weight was 3,061 g/An in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Meat, Poultry — Yield/Carcass Weight in Malawi, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in g/An.
Analysis
Malawi recorded 3,061 g/An for meat, poultry — yield/carcass weight in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 6.1% on the previous year and up 13.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat, poultry — yield/carcass weight in Malawi peaked at 3,061 g/An in 2024 and was at its lowest, 799 g/An, in 2005.
That places Malawi 4th out of 207 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 800 g/An | 800 g/An | 800 g/An | 9 |
| 1970s | 800 g/An | 800 g/An | 800 g/An | 10 |
| 1980s | 800 g/An | 800 g/An | 800 g/An | 10 |
| 1990s | 800 g/An | 800 g/An | 800 g/An | 10 |
| 2000s | 811.7 g/An | 799 g/An | 907 g/An | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,472 g/An | 883 g/An | 3,000 g/An | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,811 g/An | 2,415 g/An | 3,061 g/An | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Malawi
- Agriculture share gdp 30.03 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 30.03 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.7% (2024)
- Rural population 82.4% (2025)
- Rural population growth 2.2% (2025)
- Rural population 18.31 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 30.0% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.48 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 1.13 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is meat, poultry — yield/carcass weight in Malawi?
- Meat, poultry — yield/carcass weight in Malawi was 3,061 g/An in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest meat, poultry — yield/carcass weight recorded in Malawi?
- The highest recorded value was 3,061 g/An in 2024.
- What is the lowest meat, poultry — yield/carcass weight recorded in Malawi?
- The lowest recorded value was 799 g/An in 2005.
- How does Malawi rank for meat, poultry — yield/carcass weight?
- Malawi ranks 4th out of 207 countries with data for 2024.
- Is meat, poultry — yield/carcass weight rising or falling in Malawi?
- Over the last ten years it is up 13.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Malawi data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Meat, Poultry — Yield/Carcass Weight. 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.