Sheep and Goat Meat — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Mexico
Mexico: Sheep and Goat Meat — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 5.72 million An in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sheep and Goat Meat — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in Mexico, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in An.
Analysis
Mexico recorded 5.72 million An for sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 0.6% on the previous year and up 9.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered in Mexico peaked at 5.72 million An in 2024 and was at its lowest, 2.15 million An, in 1962.
Mexico ranks 40th of 202 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2.35 million An | 2.15 million An | 2.75 million An | 9 |
| 1970s | 3.58 million An | 2.87 million An | 3.91 million An | 10 |
| 1980s | 4.40 million An | 4.05 million An | 4.90 million An | 10 |
| 1990s | 4.41 million An | 3.99 million An | 4.96 million An | 10 |
| 2000s | 4.81 million An | 4.30 million An | 5.25 million An | 10 |
| 2010s | 5.30 million An | 5.18 million An | 5.39 million An | 10 |
| 2020s | 5.55 million An | 5.39 million An | 5.72 million An | 5 |
Countries ranked near Mexico
- 37 Burkina Faso 6.39 million An compare
- 38 Azerbaijan 6.06 million An compare
- 39 Romania 5.87 million An compare
- 41 Somalia 5.44 million An compare
- 42 Greece 5.31 million An compare
- 43 Yugoslav SFR 5.20 million An compare
More agriculture & rural data for Mexico
- Agriculture share gdp 3.88 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 3.88 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 20.0% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.6% (2025)
- Rural population 26.34 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 3.9% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 71.18 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 2.67 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered in Mexico?
- Sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered in Mexico was 5.72 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 Mexico?
- The highest recorded value was 5.72 million An in 2024.
- What is the lowest sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in Mexico?
- The lowest recorded value was 2.15 million An in 1962.
- How does Mexico rank for sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered?
- Mexico ranks 40th out of 202 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in Mexico?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Mexico 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.