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Meat, Total — Production, per square kilometre by country

Meat, Total — Production divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Countries reporting
171
Highest
81.29 t per square kilometre
Singapore
Lowest
0.0232 t per square kilometre
Equatorial Guinea
Median
2.43 t per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
9,872

What the numbers show

Meat, Total — Production, per square kilometre is currently reported for 171 countries. The highest value is 81.29 t per square kilometre in Singapore; the lowest is 0.0232 t per square kilometre in Equatorial Guinea.

The median across all reporting countries is 2.43 t per square kilometre, and the mean is 5.44 t per square kilometre.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 3,508.

Over the past decade 131 countries rose and 40 fell. The largest increase was in Tajikistan (up 437.1%), and the largest decrease in Antigua and Barbuda (down 64.9%).

Meat, Total — Production, per square kilometre: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Singapore 81.29 t per square kilometre 2023 down 51.3% flat
2 Belgium 52.5 t per square kilometre 2023 down 10.3% flat
3 Bahrain 47.72 t per square kilometre 2023 up 55.9% volatile
4 Barbados 43.19 t per square kilometre 2023 up 12.8% rising
5 Israel 41.44 t per square kilometre 2023 up 27.5% volatile
6 Denmark 39.19 t per square kilometre 2023 down 17.1% rising
7 Mauritius 31.36 t per square kilometre 2023 up 23.9% volatile
8 Malta 31.34 t per square kilometre 2023 down 13.1% rising
9 Germany 19.39 t per square kilometre 2023 down 17.3% rising
10 Lebanon 17.87 t per square kilometre 2023 up 26.5% volatile
11 Ireland 16.54 t per square kilometre 2023 up 23.0% rising
12 Poland 16.52 t per square kilometre 2023 up 30.4% rising
13 Spain 14.72 t per square kilometre 2023 up 33.7% volatile
14 Jamaica 14.34 t per square kilometre 2023 up 31.9% volatile
15 Switzerland 12.21 t per square kilometre 2023 up 3.0% rising
16 Japan 11.48 t per square kilometre 2023 up 7.2% rising
17 Italy 10.98 t per square kilometre 2023 down 15.4% rising
18 Hungary 10.95 t per square kilometre 2023 up 22.2% falling
19 Dominican Republic 10.8 t per square kilometre 2023 up 12.0% volatile
20 China 10.58 t per square kilometre 2023 up 14.9% volatile
21 Palestine 10.49 t per square kilometre 2022 down 19.3% falling
22 Trinidad and Tobago 10.38 t per square kilometre 2023 down 24.5% rising
23 Philippines 10.1 t per square kilometre 2023 down 5.0% volatile
24 Austria 9.89 t per square kilometre 2023 down 9.7% rising
25 Portugal 9.26 t per square kilometre 2023 up 7.5% rising
26 France 9.23 t per square kilometre 2023 down 10.0% rising
27 El Salvador 8.99 t per square kilometre 2023 up 32.8% volatile
28 Luxembourg 8.26 t per square kilometre 2023 up 7.2% flat
29 Cyprus 8.16 t per square kilometre 2023 down 8.2% rising
30 Guatemala 7.8 t per square kilometre 2023 up 120.9% volatile
31 Malawi 7.07 t per square kilometre 2023 up 179.0% volatile
32 Pakistan 6.97 t per square kilometre 2023 up 57.7% volatile
33 Kuwait 6.66 t per square kilometre 2023 up 36.8% volatile
34 Slovenia 6.64 t per square kilometre 2023 up 10.9% falling
35 Tuvalu 6.33 t per square kilometre 2023 up 10.5% volatile
36 Serbia 6.3 t per square kilometre 2023 up 12.7% rising
37 Czechia 6.14 t per square kilometre 2023 down 5.9% falling
38 Belarus 6.09 t per square kilometre 2023 up 5.3% rising
39 Thailand 5.93 t per square kilometre 2023 up 8.1% volatile
40 Grenada 5.92 t per square kilometre 2023 up 23.8% rising
41 Bangladesh 5.89 t per square kilometre 2023 up 21.2% rising
42 Costa Rica 5.86 t per square kilometre 2023 up 15.6% volatile
43 New Zealand 5.58 t per square kilometre 2023 up 8.4% rising
44 Malaysia 5.55 t per square kilometre 2023 up 5.2% volatile
45 Saint Lucia 4.94 t per square kilometre 2023 up 20.5% rising
46 Azerbaijan 4.59 t per square kilometre 2023 up 32.4% rising
47 Sri Lanka 4.32 t per square kilometre 2023 up 56.7% volatile
48 India 4.31 t per square kilometre 2023 up 50.3% volatile
49 Ecuador 4.23 t per square kilometre 2023 up 35.1% volatile
50 Romania 4.21 t per square kilometre 2023 up 7.9% flat
51 Mexico 4.15 t per square kilometre 2023 up 32.4% volatile
52 Croatia 4.15 t per square kilometre 2023 up 5.6% rising
53 Uruguay 4.08 t per square kilometre 2023 up 14.2% rising
54 Seychelles 4.06 t per square kilometre 2023 up 140.1% rising
55 Panama 4.02 t per square kilometre 2023 up 8.5% volatile
56 Nauru 3.92 t per square kilometre 2023 up 1.2% rising
57 Haiti 3.92 t per square kilometre 2023 up 2.8% rising
58 Ukraine 3.86 t per square kilometre 2023 down 8.2% flat
59 Rwanda 3.64 t per square kilometre 2023 down 6.1% volatile
60 Armenia 3.56 t per square kilometre 2023 up 21.5% rising
61 Greece 3.53 t per square kilometre 2023 down 6.6% rising
62 Uzbekistan 3.51 t per square kilometre 2023 up 48.6% rising
63 Tonga 3.41 t per square kilometre 2023 up 5.0% rising
64 Jordan 3.38 t per square kilometre 2023 up 32.9% volatile
65 Puerto Rico 3.34 t per square kilometre 2023 down 46.6% rising
66 Brazil 3.33 t per square kilometre 2023 up 17.3% volatile
67 Slovakia 3.31 t per square kilometre 2019 down 15.5% falling
68 Qatar 3.27 t per square kilometre 2023 up 77.1% volatile
69 Tajikistan 3.25 t per square kilometre 2023 up 437.1% volatile
70 Lithuania 3.2 t per square kilometre 2023 down 8.5% falling
71 Uganda 3.19 t per square kilometre 2023 up 43.8% volatile
72 Nepal 3 t per square kilometre 2023 up 45.7% volatile
73 Egypt 2.99 t per square kilometre 2023 up 41.1% volatile
74 Maldives 2.9 t per square kilometre 2023 up 3.5% rising
75 South Africa 2.86 t per square kilometre 2023 up 12.6% volatile
76 Colombia 2.79 t per square kilometre 2023 up 29.8% volatile
77 Albania 2.78 t per square kilometre 2023 down 20.4% rising
78 Nicaragua 2.76 t per square kilometre 2023 up 29.9% volatile
79 Morocco 2.75 t per square kilometre 2023 up 27.4% volatile
80 Kiribati 2.72 t per square kilometre 2023 up 27.1% rising
81 Honduras 2.71 t per square kilometre 2023 up 33.0% volatile
82 Fiji 2.69 t per square kilometre 2023 up 118.4% volatile
83 United Arab Emirates 2.67 t per square kilometre 2023 up 35.3% volatile
84 Indonesia 2.64 t per square kilometre 2023 up 75.3% volatile
85 Zimbabwe 2.43 t per square kilometre 2023 up 11.1% volatile
86 Tunisia 2.43 t per square kilometre 2023 up 15.6% volatile
87 Argentina 2.37 t per square kilometre 2023 up 21.6% rising
88 Chile 2.09 t per square kilometre 2023 up 6.9% volatile
89 Bulgaria 2.07 t per square kilometre 2023 up 8.1% falling
90 Burkina Faso 1.94 t per square kilometre 2023 down 19.2% volatile
91 Myanmar 1.93 t per square kilometre 2023 down 50.0% volatile
92 Dominica 1.87 t per square kilometre 2023 down 0.7% rising
93 Burundi 1.86 t per square kilometre 2023 up 97.8% rising
94 Nigeria 1.82 t per square kilometre 2023 up 21.3% rising
95 Sao Tome and Principe 1.81 t per square kilometre 2023 up 83.7% volatile
96 Peru 1.79 t per square kilometre 2023 up 38.0% volatile
97 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.74 t per square kilometre 2023 up 22.9% rising
98 Senegal 1.73 t per square kilometre 2023 up 52.4% volatile
99 Estonia 1.65 t per square kilometre 2023 down 9.8% rising
100 Paraguay 1.51 t per square kilometre 2023 up 29.1% rising
101 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1.49 t per square kilometre 2023 down 32.8% rising
102 Eswatini 1.45 t per square kilometre 2023 up 6.7% rising
103 Togo 1.44 t per square kilometre 2023 up 47.7% volatile
104 Latvia 1.43 t per square kilometre 2023 up 10.8% falling
105 Ghana 1.4 t per square kilometre 2023 up 27.5% rising
106 Sweden 1.38 t per square kilometre 2023 up 11.2% rising
107 Kyrgyzstan 1.37 t per square kilometre 2023 up 34.1% rising
108 Finland 1.28 t per square kilometre 2023 down 0.7% rising
109 Comoros 1.23 t per square kilometre 2023 down 1.4% rising
110 Belize 1.17 t per square kilometre 2023 up 36.5% volatile
111 Papua New Guinea 1.16 t per square kilometre 2023 up 11.1% rising
112 Georgia 1.13 t per square kilometre 2023 up 62.8% falling
113 Samoa 1.12 t per square kilometre 2023 down 31.3% rising
114 Cambodia 1.09 t per square kilometre 2023 down 3.6% volatile
115 Cuba 1.05 t per square kilometre 2023 down 64.2% rising
116 Benin 1.04 t per square kilometre 2023 up 63.9% rising
117 Montenegro 1.02 t per square kilometre 2023 up 70.9% rising
118 Norway 1.01 t per square kilometre 2023 up 6.3% rising
119 Kenya 1.01 t per square kilometre 2023 down 12.8% rising
120 Guinea-Bissau 0.9621 t per square kilometre 2023 down 2.6% rising
121 Cameroon 0.8899 t per square kilometre 2023 up 36.7% volatile
122 North Macedonia 0.8751 t per square kilometre 2023 up 5.8% falling
123 Yemen 0.8403 t per square kilometre 2023 up 11.7% volatile
124 Turkmenistan 0.779 t per square kilometre 2023 up 19.0% rising
125 Gambia 0.7773 t per square kilometre 2023 down 4.6% rising
126 Chad 0.7701 t per square kilometre 2023 up 71.1% volatile
127 Ethiopia 0.7577 t per square kilometre 2023 up 25.9% rising
128 Iraq 0.6871 t per square kilometre 2023 up 64.5% rising
129 Sierra Leone 0.6699 t per square kilometre 2023 up 7.6% volatile
130 Saudi Arabia 0.6682 t per square kilometre 2023 up 80.1% volatile
131 Australia 0.6576 t per square kilometre 2023 up 11.2% rising
132 Bahamas 0.6548 t per square kilometre 2023 down 8.7% rising
133 Canada 0.598 t per square kilometre 2023 up 24.4% rising
134 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.5832 t per square kilometre 2023 down 22.1% falling
135 Guinea 0.5734 t per square kilometre 2023 up 25.4% volatile
136 French Polynesia 0.5267 t per square kilometre 2023 up 0.4% rising
137 Faroe Islands 0.5163 t per square kilometre 2023 up 11.6% rising
138 Zambia 0.5137 t per square kilometre 2023 up 16.6% volatile
139 Sudan 0.5106 t per square kilometre 2023 up 3.8% rising
140 Djibouti 0.5032 t per square kilometre 2023 up 4.0% rising
141 Vanuatu 0.4445 t per square kilometre 2023 down 31.2% rising
142 Algeria 0.4305 t per square kilometre 2023 up 33.0% volatile
143 Kazakhstan 0.4148 t per square kilometre 2023 up 49.0% flat
144 Afghanistan 0.3863 t per square kilometre 2023 down 21.8% rising
145 New Caledonia 0.3726 t per square kilometre 2023 up 0.7% rising
146 South Sudan 0.3661 t per square kilometre 2023 up 33.6% rising
147 Mozambique 0.3661 t per square kilometre 2023 up 43.0% volatile
148 Liberia 0.3586 t per square kilometre 2023 up 4.7% rising
149 Eritrea 0.3548 t per square kilometre 2023 up 8.5% rising
150 Mongolia 0.3377 t per square kilometre 2023 up 110.3% rising
151 Iceland 0.3316 t per square kilometre 2023 up 2.2% rising
152 Guyana 0.3174 t per square kilometre 2023 up 89.6% volatile
153 Central African Republic 0.3041 t per square kilometre 2023 up 10.3% volatile
154 Lesotho 0.2964 t per square kilometre 2023 down 5.8% falling
155 Oman 0.295 t per square kilometre 2023 up 4.2% volatile
156 Somalia 0.2921 t per square kilometre 2023 down 6.2% rising
157 Madagascar 0.2883 t per square kilometre 2023 up 11.3% falling
158 Angola 0.2777 t per square kilometre 2023 up 32.9% volatile
159 Antigua and Barbuda 0.2373 t per square kilometre 2023 down 64.9% falling
160 Botswana 0.1859 t per square kilometre 2023 up 23.2% rising
161 Congo 0.1799 t per square kilometre 2023 up 8.4% volatile
162 Gabon 0.1599 t per square kilometre 2023 up 7.4% rising
163 Niger 0.1594 t per square kilometre 2023 up 35.2% rising
164 Mali 0.1332 t per square kilometre 2023 up 36.3% rising
165 Solomon Islands 0.1291 t per square kilometre 2023 up 4.1% rising
166 Mauritania 0.1278 t per square kilometre 2023 up 19.6% rising
167 Bhutan 0.1247 t per square kilometre 2023 up 128.5% falling
168 Libya 0.1057 t per square kilometre 2023 up 2.4% rising
169 Namibia 0.1031 t per square kilometre 2023 up 5.3% rising
170 Suriname 0.085 t per square kilometre 2023 up 13.3% rising
171 Equatorial Guinea 0.0232 t per square kilometre 2023 up 6.6% rising

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

  • World 2.83 t per square kilometre

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Meat, Total — Production divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Meat, Total — Production ÷ Land area (sq. km)

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Indicator
Meat, Total — Production, per square kilometre
Unit
t per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
172 places, 9,872 data points, 1961–2023
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Meat, Total — Production divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.