Sheep and Goats — Stocks in Melanesia
Melanesia: Sheep and Goats — Stocks was 348,669 An in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sheep and Goats — Stocks in Melanesia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in An.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sheep and goats — stocks in Melanesia is 348,669 An, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 2.5% on the previous year and up 16.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sheep and goats — stocks in Melanesia peaked at 351,400 An in 2004 and was at its lowest, 118,917 An, in 1978.
Melanesia ranks 16th of 20 regions on this measure, in the bottom 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 | 210,179 An | 176,338 An | 227,084 An | 9 |
| 1970s | 154,310 An | 118,917 An | 180,728 An | 10 |
| 1980s | 205,031 An | 135,461 An | 229,866 An | 10 |
| 1990s | 245,488 An | 206,750 An | 277,270 An | 10 |
| 2000s | 290,555 An | 250,900 An | 351,400 An | 10 |
| 2010s | 308,739 An | 294,530 An | 330,862 An | 10 |
| 2020s | 338,461 An | 332,130 An | 348,669 An | 5 |
Countries ranked near Melanesia
More agriculture & rural data for Melanesia
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 2.18 million An (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 374.22 t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 79,382 ha (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 41 kg/An (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 2.18 million An (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Production 6,015 t (2024)
- Bananas — Production 1.31 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 89,605 t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 504 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 8,430 kg/ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sheep and goats — stocks in Melanesia?
- Sheep and goats — stocks in Melanesia was 348,669 An in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sheep and goats — stocks recorded in Melanesia?
- The highest recorded value was 351,400 An in 2004.
- What is the lowest sheep and goats — stocks recorded in Melanesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 118,917 An in 1978.
- How does Melanesia rank for sheep and goats — stocks?
- Melanesia ranks 16th out of 20 regions with data for 2024.
- Is sheep and goats — stocks rising or falling in Melanesia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 16.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- 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 Goats — Stocks. 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.