Raw milk of sheep — Yield/Carcass Weight in Ethiopia
Ethiopia: Raw milk of sheep — Yield/Carcass Weight was 18 kg/An in 2024. ▼ Falling
Raw milk of sheep — Yield/Carcass Weight in Ethiopia, 1993–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/An.
Analysis
The most recent figure for raw milk of sheep — yield/carcass weight in Ethiopia is 18 kg/An, measured in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 32 years on record.
That represents a change of down 5.3% on the previous year and down 10.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, raw milk of sheep — yield/carcass weight in Ethiopia peaked at 26 kg/An in 1993 and was at its lowest, 18 kg/An, in 2020.
Ethiopia ranks 68th of 79 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 32 years of available data.
Raw milk of sheep — Yield/Carcass Weight in Ethiopia, year by year
| Year | kg/An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 26 kg/An | — |
| 1994 | 26 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1995 | 26 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 25 kg/An | -3.8% |
| 1997 | 25 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1998 | 25 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1999 | 25 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2000 | 25 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2001 | 25 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2002 | 24 kg/An | -4.0% |
| 2003 | 23 kg/An | -4.2% |
| 2004 | 23 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 22 kg/An | -4.3% |
| 2006 | 21 kg/An | -4.5% |
| 2007 | 21 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 21 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 21 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 21 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 21 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 21 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 21 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 20 kg/An | -4.8% |
| 2015 | 20 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 20 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 20 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 20 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 19 kg/An | -5.0% |
| 2020 | 18 kg/An | -5.3% |
| 2021 | 19 kg/An | +5.6% |
| 2022 | 19 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 19 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 18 kg/An | -5.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 25.43 kg/An | 25 kg/An | 26 kg/An | 7 |
| 2000s | 22.6 kg/An | 21 kg/An | 25 kg/An | 10 |
| 2010s | 20.3 kg/An | 19 kg/An | 21 kg/An | 10 |
| 2020s | 18.6 kg/An | 18 kg/An | 19 kg/An | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is raw milk of sheep — yield/carcass weight in Ethiopia?
- Raw milk of sheep — yield/carcass weight in Ethiopia was 18 kg/An in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest raw milk of sheep — yield/carcass weight recorded in Ethiopia?
- The highest recorded value was 26 kg/An in 1993.
- What is the lowest raw milk of sheep — yield/carcass weight recorded in Ethiopia?
- The lowest recorded value was 18 kg/An in 2020.
- How does Ethiopia rank for raw milk of sheep — yield/carcass weight?
- Ethiopia ranks 68th out of 79 countries with data for 2024.
- Is raw milk of sheep — yield/carcass weight rising or falling in Ethiopia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 10.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Ethiopia data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Raw milk of sheep — Yield/Carcass Weight. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.