Sheep and Goat Meat — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Benin
Benin: Sheep and Goat Meat — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 2.50 million An in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Sheep and Goat Meat — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Benin, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in An.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered in Benin is 2.50 million An, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 4.6% on the previous year and up 189.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered in Benin peaked at 2.77 million An in 2021 and was at its lowest, 198,000 An, in 1961.
Benin ranks 61st of 202 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 288,726 An | 198,000 An | 343,932 An | 9 |
| 1970s | 462,950 An | 352,410 An | 544,306 An | 10 |
| 1980s | 627,848 An | 550,000 An | 764,000 An | 10 |
| 1990s | 589,140 An | 539,000 An | 648,500 An | 10 |
| 2000s | 709,753 An | 643,240 An | 796,840 An | 10 |
| 2010s | 917,886 An | 817,700 An | 1.35 million An | 10 |
| 2020s | 2.47 million An | 2.16 million An | 2.77 million An | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Benin
- Agriculture share gdp 22.92 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 22.92 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 52.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.8% (2024)
- Rural population 46.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 6.91 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 22.9% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.63 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 20,973 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered in Benin?
- Sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered in Benin was 2.50 million An in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Benin?
- The highest recorded value was 2.77 million An in 2021.
- What is the lowest sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Benin?
- The lowest recorded value was 198,000 An in 1961.
- How does Benin rank for sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered?
- Benin ranks 61st out of 202 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in Benin?
- Over the last ten years it is up 189.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Benin data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sheep and Goat Meat — Producing Animals/Slaughtered. 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.