Sheep and Goat Meat — Yield/Carcass Weight in World
World: Sheep and Goat Meat — Yield/Carcass Weight was 15 kg/An in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sheep and Goat Meat — Yield/Carcass Weight in World, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/An.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sheep and goat meat — yield/carcass weight in World is 15 kg/An, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of unchanged over ten years.
Over the whole period, sheep and goat meat — yield/carcass weight in World peaked at 15 kg/An in 2001 and was at its lowest, 14 kg/An, in 1961.
World ranks 17th of 33 groups on this measure, 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 | 14 kg/An | 14 kg/An | 14 kg/An | 9 |
| 1970s | 14 kg/An | 14 kg/An | 14 kg/An | 10 |
| 1980s | 14 kg/An | 14 kg/An | 14 kg/An | 10 |
| 1990s | 14 kg/An | 14 kg/An | 14 kg/An | 10 |
| 2000s | 14.9 kg/An | 14 kg/An | 15 kg/An | 10 |
| 2010s | 15 kg/An | 15 kg/An | 15 kg/An | 10 |
| 2020s | 15 kg/An | 15 kg/An | 15 kg/An | 5 |
Countries ranked near World
More agriculture & rural data for World
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.2% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
- Rural population 42.2% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.3% (2025)
- Rural population 3.46 billion (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.0% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.75 trillion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 139.41 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 5.88 million ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 6.05 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sheep and goat meat — yield/carcass weight in World?
- Sheep and goat meat — yield/carcass weight in World was 15 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 World?
- The highest recorded value was 15 kg/An in 2001.
- What is the lowest sheep and goat meat — yield/carcass weight recorded in World?
- The lowest recorded value was 14 kg/An in 1961.
- How does World rank for sheep and goat meat — yield/carcass weight?
- World ranks 17th out of 33 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sheep and goat meat — yield/carcass weight rising or falling in World?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this World 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.
Download this data
CSV · JSON — 64 observations, free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO).
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.