Shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — Production in Northern Europe
Northern Europe: Shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — Production was 72,084 t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — Production in Northern Europe, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
The most recent figure for shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production in Northern Europe is 72,084 t, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 17.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production in Northern Europe peaked at 98,069 t in 1991 and was at its lowest, 61,206 t, in 1977.
Northern Europe ranks 16th of 26 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.
Shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — Production in Northern Europe, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 78,115 t | — |
| 1962 | 78,690 t | +0.7% |
| 1963 | 77,178 t | -1.9% |
| 1964 | 76,700 t | -0.6% |
| 1965 | 78,400 t | +2.2% |
| 1966 | 79,902 t | +1.9% |
| 1967 | 76,353 t | -4.4% |
| 1968 | 72,682 t | -4.8% |
| 1969 | 65,398 t | -10.0% |
| 1970 | 62,736 t | -4.1% |
| 1971 | 64,048 t | +2.1% |
| 1972 | 64,113 t | +0.1% |
| 1973 | 64,656 t | +0.8% |
| 1974 | 66,080 t | +2.2% |
| 1975 | 66,000 t | -0.1% |
| 1976 | 63,704 t | -3.5% |
| 1977 | 61,206 t | -3.9% |
| 1978 | 64,603 t | +5.6% |
| 1979 | 67,909 t | +5.1% |
| 1980 | 68,547 t | +0.9% |
| 1981 | 67,802 t | -1.1% |
| 1982 | 65,971 t | -2.7% |
| 1983 | 71,120 t | +7.8% |
| 1984 | 70,147 t | -1.4% |
| 1985 | 74,736 t | +6.5% |
| 1986 | 76,994 t | +3.0% |
| 1987 | 80,287 t | +4.3% |
| 1988 | 87,087 t | +8.5% |
| 1989 | 95,415 t | +9.6% |
| 1990 | 97,926 t | +2.6% |
| 1991 | 98,069 t | +0.1% |
| 1992 | 92,129 t | -6.1% |
| 1993 | 88,805 t | -3.6% |
| 1994 | 87,878 t | -1.0% |
| 1995 | 88,724 t | +1.0% |
| 1996 | 84,394 t | -4.9% |
| 1997 | 83,498 t | -1.1% |
| 1998 | 88,053 t | +5.5% |
| 1999 | 84,583 t | -3.9% |
| 2000 | 83,101 t | -1.8% |
| 2001 | 74,348 t | -10.5% |
| 2002 | 78,916 t | +6.1% |
| 2003 | 79,012 t | +0.1% |
| 2004 | 79,422 t | +0.5% |
| 2005 | 79,338 t | -0.1% |
| 2006 | 80,205 t | +1.1% |
| 2007 | 80,745 t | +0.7% |
| 2008 | 82,338 t | +2.0% |
| 2009 | 83,630 t | +1.6% |
| 2010 | 86,851 t | +3.9% |
| 2011 | 87,662 t | +0.9% |
| 2012 | 88,287 t | +0.7% |
| 2013 | 87,542 t | -0.8% |
| 2014 | 87,036 t | -0.6% |
| 2015 | 88,466 t | +1.6% |
| 2016 | 89,486 t | +1.2% |
| 2017 | 89,439 t | -0.1% |
| 2018 | 73,984 t | -17.3% |
| 2019 | 74,181 t | +0.3% |
| 2020 | 73,868 t | -0.4% |
| 2021 | 72,714 t | -1.6% |
| 2022 | 72,736 t | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 72,120 t | -0.8% |
| 2024 | 72,084 t | -0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 75,935 t | 65,398 t | 79,902 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 64,506 t | 61,206 t | 67,909 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 75,811 t | 65,971 t | 95,415 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 89,406 t | 83,498 t | 98,069 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 80,105 t | 74,348 t | 83,630 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 85,293 t | 73,984 t | 89,486 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 72,704 t | 72,084 t | 73,868 t | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production in Northern Europe?
- Shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production in Northern Europe was 72,084 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production recorded in Northern Europe?
- The highest recorded value was 98,069 t in 1991.
- What is the lowest shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production recorded in Northern Europe?
- The lowest recorded value was 61,206 t in 1977.
- How does Northern Europe rank for shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production?
- Northern Europe ranks 16th out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production rising or falling in Northern Europe?
- Over the last ten years it is down 17.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Northern Europe data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — Production. 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.