Sheep and Goat Meat — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Melanesia
Melanesia: Sheep and Goat Meat — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 33,180 An in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sheep and Goat Meat — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Melanesia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in An.
Analysis
Melanesia recorded 33,180 An for sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 3.5% on the previous year and up 16.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered in Melanesia peaked at 102,094 An in 2004 and was at its lowest, 23,118 An, in 2016.
That places Melanesia 36th out of 40 regions with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 57,809 An | 49,947 An | 61,824 An | 9 |
| 1970s | 46,010 An | 36,850 An | 52,395 An | 10 |
| 1980s | 67,991 An | 41,750 An | 78,560 An | 10 |
| 1990s | 76,065 An | 66,703 An | 86,342 An | 10 |
| 2000s | 80,816 An | 50,961 An | 102,094 An | 10 |
| 2010s | 30,339 An | 23,118 An | 46,868 An | 10 |
| 2020s | 32,061 An | 30,759 An | 33,180 An | 5 |
Countries ranked near Melanesia
- 33 Tajikistan 6.49 million An compare
- 34 Burkina Faso 6.39 million An compare
- 35 Azerbaijan 6.06 million An compare
- 36 Romania 5.87 million An compare
- 37 Mexico 5.72 million An compare
- 38 South Africa 5.63 million An compare
- 39 Somalia 5.44 million An compare
More agriculture & rural data for Melanesia
- Fat of pigs — Production 6,015 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 89,605 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 41 kg/An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 2.18 million An (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 532 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 4,250 t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 374.22 t (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 2.18 million An (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Producing 2.18 million An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 504 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered in Melanesia?
- Sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered in Melanesia was 33,180 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 Melanesia?
- The highest recorded value was 102,094 An in 2004.
- What is the lowest sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Melanesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 23,118 An in 2016.
- How does Melanesia rank for sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered?
- Melanesia ranks 36th out of 40 regions with data for 2024.
- Is sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in Melanesia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 16.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Melanesia 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.