Meat, Total — Production in Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia: Meat, Total — Production was 3,005 t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Meat, Total — Production in Saint Lucia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
Saint Lucia recorded 3,005 t for meat, total — production in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.4% on the previous year and up 16.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, meat, total — production in Saint Lucia peaked at 3,178 t in 2022 and was at its lowest, 987.68 t, in 1961.
That places Saint Lucia 175th out of 194 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Meat, Total — Production in Saint Lucia, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 987.68 t | — |
| 1962 | 1,013 t | +2.6% |
| 1963 | 1,047 t | +3.3% |
| 1964 | 1,102 t | +5.3% |
| 1965 | 1,093 t | -0.8% |
| 1966 | 1,165 t | +6.6% |
| 1967 | 1,135 t | -2.6% |
| 1968 | 1,146 t | +1.0% |
| 1969 | 1,198 t | +4.5% |
| 1970 | 1,287 t | +7.4% |
| 1971 | 1,162 t | -9.7% |
| 1972 | 1,183 t | +1.8% |
| 1973 | 1,256 t | +6.2% |
| 1974 | 1,292 t | +2.9% |
| 1975 | 1,267 t | -1.9% |
| 1976 | 1,431 t | +12.9% |
| 1977 | 1,440 t | +0.7% |
| 1978 | 1,548 t | +7.5% |
| 1979 | 1,511 t | -2.4% |
| 1980 | 1,606 t | +6.3% |
| 1981 | 1,653 t | +2.9% |
| 1982 | 1,670 t | +1.0% |
| 1983 | 1,763 t | +5.6% |
| 1984 | 1,872 t | +6.2% |
| 1985 | 1,875 t | +0.1% |
| 1986 | 1,889 t | +0.7% |
| 1987 | 1,905 t | +0.9% |
| 1988 | 1,914 t | +0.5% |
| 1989 | 1,881 t | -1.8% |
| 1990 | 1,898 t | +0.9% |
| 1991 | 1,936 t | +2.0% |
| 1992 | 2,055 t | +6.2% |
| 1993 | 2,082 t | +1.3% |
| 1994 | 2,118 t | +1.7% |
| 1995 | 2,113 t | -0.2% |
| 1996 | 1,964 t | -7.0% |
| 1997 | 2,214 t | +12.7% |
| 1998 | 2,183 t | -1.4% |
| 1999 | 2,390 t | +9.5% |
| 2000 | 2,148 t | -10.1% |
| 2001 | 2,093 t | -2.6% |
| 2002 | 2,777 t | +32.7% |
| 2003 | 2,894 t | +4.2% |
| 2004 | 2,925 t | +1.1% |
| 2005 | 2,913 t | -0.4% |
| 2006 | 2,887 t | -0.9% |
| 2007 | 3,153 t | +9.2% |
| 2008 | 2,938 t | -6.8% |
| 2009 | 2,929 t | -0.3% |
| 2010 | 2,845 t | -2.9% |
| 2011 | 2,820 t | -0.9% |
| 2012 | 2,773 t | -1.7% |
| 2013 | 2,503 t | -9.7% |
| 2014 | 2,583 t | +3.2% |
| 2015 | 2,681 t | +3.8% |
| 2016 | 2,669 t | -0.4% |
| 2017 | 2,614 t | -2.0% |
| 2018 | 2,586 t | -1.1% |
| 2019 | 2,753 t | +6.4% |
| 2020 | 2,958 t | +7.5% |
| 2021 | 3,006 t | +1.6% |
| 2022 | 3,178 t | +5.7% |
| 2023 | 3,016 t | -5.1% |
| 2024 | 3,005 t | -0.4% |
Saint Lucia compared with similar countries
- Saint Lucia's 3,005 t is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 286,984 t, 1% of the median. (51 countries reporting)
- Saint Lucia's 3,005 t is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 175,376 t, 2% of the median. (32 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Meat, Total — Production in Saint Lucia changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | +32.7% | 2,093 t | 2,777 t |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,099 t | 987.68 t | 1,198 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,338 t | 1,162 t | 1,548 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,803 t | 1,606 t | 1,914 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,095 t | 1,898 t | 2,390 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,766 t | 2,093 t | 3,153 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,683 t | 2,503 t | 2,845 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,033 t | 2,958 t | 3,178 t | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Saint Lucia
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 16.57 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0166 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 244.45 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.2268 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.709 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 1.7% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 1.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.7% (2020)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.3% (2020)
Frequently asked questions
- What is meat, total — production in Saint Lucia?
- Meat, total — production in Saint Lucia was 3,005 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest meat, total — production recorded in Saint Lucia?
- The highest recorded value was 3,178 t in 2022.
- What is the lowest meat, total — production recorded in Saint Lucia?
- The lowest recorded value was 987.68 t in 1961.
- How does Saint Lucia rank for meat, total — production?
- Saint Lucia ranks 175th out of 194 countries with data for 2024.
- Is meat, total — production rising or falling in Saint Lucia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 16.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Saint Lucia 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.