Meat, Total — Production in Italy
Italy: Meat, Total — Production was 3.38 million t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Meat, Total — Production in Italy, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
The most recent figure for meat, total — production in Italy is 3.38 million t, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 4.0% on the previous year and up 0.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat, total — production in Italy peaked at 4.06 million t in 2010 and was at its lowest, 1.47 million t, in 1961.
Italy ranks 23rd of 210 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1.86 million t | 1.47 million t | 2.33 million t | 9 |
| 1970s | 2.90 million t | 2.50 million t | 3.43 million t | 10 |
| 1980s | 3.71 million t | 3.55 million t | 3.86 million t | 10 |
| 1990s | 3.88 million t | 3.81 million t | 3.96 million t | 10 |
| 2000s | 3.90 million t | 3.75 million t | 4.02 million t | 10 |
| 2010s | 3.77 million t | 3.37 million t | 4.06 million t | 10 |
| 2020s | 3.39 million t | 3.25 million t | 3.55 million t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Italy
More agriculture & rural data for Italy
- Agriculture share gdp 2.07 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 2.07 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.5% (2024)
- Rural population 30.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.3% (2025)
- Rural population 17.86 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 2.1% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 52.70 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 0 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is meat, total — production in Italy?
- Meat, total — production in Italy was 3.38 million t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest meat, total — production recorded in Italy?
- The highest recorded value was 4.06 million t in 2010.
- What is the lowest meat, total — production recorded in Italy?
- The lowest recorded value was 1.47 million t in 1961.
- How does Italy rank for meat, total — production?
- Italy ranks 23rd out of 210 countries with data for 2024.
- Is meat, total — production rising or falling in Italy?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Italy data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Meat, Total — Production. 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.