Sheep and Goat Meat — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in North Macedonia
North Macedonia: Sheep and Goat Meat — Producing Animals/Slaughtered was 110,737 An in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sheep and Goat Meat — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in North Macedonia, 1992–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in An.
Analysis
North Macedonia recorded 110,737 An for sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 33 years on record.
The figure is down 35.3% on the previous year and down 60.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered in North Macedonia peaked at 687,000 An in 1994 and was at its lowest, 110,737 An, in 2024.
That places North Macedonia 124th out of 186 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 33 years of available data.
Sheep and Goat Meat — Producing Animals/Slaughtered in North Macedonia, year by year
| Year | An | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 652,300 An | — |
| 1993 | 678,000 An | +3.9% |
| 1994 | 687,000 An | +1.3% |
| 1995 | 525,000 An | -23.6% |
| 1996 | 508,000 An | -3.2% |
| 1997 | 346,700 An | -31.8% |
| 1998 | 318,000 An | -8.3% |
| 1999 | 231,000 An | -27.4% |
| 2000 | 250,000 An | +8.2% |
| 2001 | 320,000 An | +28.0% |
| 2002 | 300,000 An | -6.2% |
| 2003 | 380,000 An | +26.7% |
| 2004 | 440,000 An | +15.8% |
| 2005 | 410,000 An | -6.8% |
| 2006 | 412,000 An | +0.5% |
| 2007 | 390,000 An | -5.3% |
| 2008 | 300,000 An | -23.1% |
| 2009 | 300,000 An | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 294,000 An | -2.0% |
| 2011 | 375,000 An | +27.6% |
| 2012 | 329,000 An | -12.3% |
| 2013 | 278,000 An | -15.5% |
| 2014 | 280,000 An | +0.7% |
| 2015 | 305,000 An | +8.9% |
| 2016 | 296,000 An | -3.0% |
| 2017 | 165,000 An | -44.3% |
| 2018 | 172,000 An | +4.2% |
| 2019 | 156,000 An | -9.3% |
| 2020 | 127,000 An | -18.6% |
| 2021 | 175,838 An | +38.5% |
| 2022 | 202,000 An | +14.9% |
| 2023 | 171,114 An | -15.3% |
| 2024 | 110,737 An | -35.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 493,250 An | 231,000 An | 687,000 An | 8 |
| 2000s | 350,200 An | 250,000 An | 440,000 An | 10 |
| 2010s | 265,000 An | 156,000 An | 375,000 An | 10 |
| 2020s | 157,338 An | 110,737 An | 202,000 An | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for North Macedonia
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 10.72 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0598 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 626.97 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.06 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3711 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 5.98 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 5.98 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.5% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.6% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered in North Macedonia?
- Sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered in North Macedonia was 110,737 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 North Macedonia?
- The highest recorded value was 687,000 An in 1994.
- What is the lowest sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered recorded in North Macedonia?
- The lowest recorded value was 110,737 An in 2024.
- How does North Macedonia rank for sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered?
- North Macedonia ranks 124th out of 186 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sheep and goat meat — producing animals/slaughtered rising or falling in North Macedonia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 60.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this North Macedonia 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.