Sheep and Goat Meat — Yield/Carcass Weight in Caribbean
Caribbean: Sheep and Goat Meat — Yield/Carcass Weight was 18 kg/An in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sheep and Goat Meat — Yield/Carcass Weight in Caribbean, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/An.
Analysis
In 2024, sheep and goat meat — yield/carcass weight in Caribbean stood at 18 kg/An.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 5.9% on the previous year and up 20.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sheep and goat meat — yield/carcass weight in Caribbean peaked at 20 kg/An in 2021 and was at its lowest, 12 kg/An, in 2006.
That places Caribbean 11th out of 40 regions with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 13 kg/An | 13 kg/An | 13 kg/An | 9 |
| 1970s | 13.9 kg/An | 13 kg/An | 14 kg/An | 10 |
| 1980s | 13.8 kg/An | 13 kg/An | 14 kg/An | 10 |
| 1990s | 13.2 kg/An | 13 kg/An | 14 kg/An | 10 |
| 2000s | 14.1 kg/An | 12 kg/An | 15 kg/An | 10 |
| 2010s | 15.4 kg/An | 14 kg/An | 18 kg/An | 10 |
| 2020s | 18 kg/An | 17 kg/An | 20 kg/An | 5 |
Countries ranked near Caribbean
More agriculture & rural data for Caribbean
- Bananas — Area harvested 150,870 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 2.72 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 136,188 t (2024)
- Cabbages — Area harvested 8,527 ha (2024)
- Cabbages — Yield 19,733 kg/ha (2024)
- Cabbages — Production 168,261 t (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Production 7,589 t (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Producing 1.91 million An (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Production 13,712 t (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 1.91 million An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sheep and goat meat — yield/carcass weight in Caribbean?
- Sheep and goat meat — yield/carcass weight in Caribbean was 18 kg/An in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sheep and goat meat — yield/carcass weight recorded in Caribbean?
- The highest recorded value was 20 kg/An in 2021.
- What is the lowest sheep and goat meat — yield/carcass weight recorded in Caribbean?
- The lowest recorded value was 12 kg/An in 2006.
- How does Caribbean rank for sheep and goat meat — yield/carcass weight?
- Caribbean ranks 11th out of 40 regions with data for 2024.
- Is sheep and goat meat — yield/carcass weight rising or falling in Caribbean?
- Over the last ten years it is up 20.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Caribbean data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sheep and Goat Meat — Yield/Carcass Weight. 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.