Raw milk of sheep — Yield/Carcass Weight in Portugal
Portugal: Raw milk of sheep — Yield/Carcass Weight was 337 kg/An in 2024. ▲ Rising
Raw milk of sheep — Yield/Carcass Weight in Portugal, 1990–2024
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 Portugal is 337 kg/An, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 35 years on record.
The figure is up 14.2% on the previous year and up 56.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, raw milk of sheep — yield/carcass weight in Portugal peaked at 337 kg/An in 2024 and was at its lowest, 161 kg/An, in 1994.
That places Portugal 3rd out of 79 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 35 years of available data.
Raw milk of sheep — Yield/Carcass Weight in Portugal, year by year
| Year | kg/An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 182 kg/An | — |
| 1991 | 183 kg/An | +0.5% |
| 1992 | 190 kg/An | +3.8% |
| 1993 | 190 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 1994 | 161 kg/An | -15.3% |
| 1995 | 162 kg/An | +0.6% |
| 1996 | 163 kg/An | +0.6% |
| 1997 | 166 kg/An | +1.8% |
| 1998 | 162 kg/An | -2.4% |
| 1999 | 179 kg/An | +10.5% |
| 2000 | 197 kg/An | +10.1% |
| 2001 | 193 kg/An | -2.0% |
| 2002 | 195 kg/An | +1.0% |
| 2003 | 195 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 194 kg/An | -0.5% |
| 2005 | 193 kg/An | -0.5% |
| 2006 | 195 kg/An | +1.0% |
| 2007 | 199 kg/An | +2.1% |
| 2008 | 201 kg/An | +1.0% |
| 2009 | 201 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 201 kg/An | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 202 kg/An | +0.5% |
| 2012 | 214 kg/An | +5.9% |
| 2013 | 213 kg/An | -0.5% |
| 2014 | 215 kg/An | +0.9% |
| 2015 | 225 kg/An | +4.7% |
| 2016 | 207 kg/An | -8.0% |
| 2017 | 209 kg/An | +1.0% |
| 2018 | 249 kg/An | +19.1% |
| 2019 | 271 kg/An | +8.8% |
| 2020 | 272 kg/An | +0.4% |
| 2021 | 281 kg/An | +3.3% |
| 2022 | 288 kg/An | +2.5% |
| 2023 | 295 kg/An | +2.4% |
| 2024 | 337 kg/An | +14.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 173.8 kg/An | 161 kg/An | 190 kg/An | 10 |
| 2000s | 196.3 kg/An | 193 kg/An | 201 kg/An | 10 |
| 2010s | 220.6 kg/An | 201 kg/An | 271 kg/An | 10 |
| 2020s | 294.6 kg/An | 272 kg/An | 337 kg/An | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is raw milk of sheep — yield/carcass weight in Portugal?
- Raw milk of sheep — yield/carcass weight in Portugal was 337 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 Portugal?
- The highest recorded value was 337 kg/An in 2024.
- What is the lowest raw milk of sheep — yield/carcass weight recorded in Portugal?
- The lowest recorded value was 161 kg/An in 1994.
- How does Portugal rank for raw milk of sheep — yield/carcass weight?
- Portugal ranks 3rd out of 79 countries with data for 2024.
- Is raw milk of sheep — yield/carcass weight rising or falling in Portugal?
- Over the last ten years it is up 56.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Portugal 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.