List of countries by meat consumption

This is a list of countries by meat consumption. Meat is animal flesh that is eaten as food. However, the data tabulated below do not represent per capita amounts of meat eaten by humans. Instead, they represent FAO figures for carcass mass availability (with “carcass mass” for poultry estimated as ready-to-cook mass), divided by population. The amount eaten by humans differs from carcass mass availability because the latter does not account for losses, which include bones, losses in retail and food service or home preparation (including trim and cooking), spoilage and “downstream” waste, and amounts consumed by pets. As an example of the difference, for 2002, when the FAO figure for US per capita meat consumption was 124.48 kg, the USDA estimate of US per capita loss-adjusted meat consumption was 62.6 kg.

Countries by meat consumption (per capita meat carcass mass availability)

Country	kg/person (2002)
Albania	38.2
Algeria	18.3
American Samoa	24.9
Angola	19
Antigua and Barbuda	56
Argentina	97.6
Armenia	27.7
Austria	94.1
Azerbaijan	15.9
Bahamas, The	123.6
Bahrain	70.7
Bangladesh	3.1
Barbados	88.7
Belarus	58.6
Belgium	86.1
Belize	74.7
Benin	16.2
Bhutan	3
Bolivia	50
Bosnia and Herzegovina	21.4
Botswana	27.3
Brazil	82.4
Brunei	56.4
Bulgaria	69.4
Burkina Faso	11.2
Burundi	3.5
Cambodia	13.9
Cameroon	14.4
Canada	108.1
Cape Verde	26.3
Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)	11.3
Central African Rep	28
Chad	14.3
Chile	66.4
China	52.4
Colombia	33.9
Comoros	7.6
Congo (Brazzaville)	13.3
Congo, Dem Rep	4.8
Costa Rica	40.4
Croatia	49.9
Cuba	32.2
Cyprus	131.3
Czech Rep	77.3
Denmark	145.9
Djibouti	17.1
Dominica	67.1
Dominican Rep	37.8
Ecuador	45
Egypt	22.5
El Salvador	21.4
Estonia	67.4
Ethiopia	7.9
Faeroe Islands	86.4
Fiji	39.1
Finland	67.4
France	101.1
French Guiana	13.2
French Polynesia	112.2
Gabon	46
Gambia, The	5.2
Georgia	26
Germany	82.1
Ghana	9.9
Greece	78.7
Greenland	113.8
Grenada	97
Guadeloupe	12.7
Guam	52.6
Guatemala	23.8
Guinea	6.5
Guinea-Bissau	13
Guyana	31.8
Haiti	15.3
Honduras	24.7
Hungary	100.7
Iceland	84.8
India	5.2
Indonesia	8.3
Iran	23.1
Ireland	106.3
Israel	97.1
Italy	90.4
Jamaica	56.8
Japan	45.9
Jordan	29.8
Kazakhstan	44.8
Kenya	14.3
Korea, North	10.8
Korea, South	48
Kuwait	60.2
Kyrgyzstan	39
Lao People's Dem Rep	15
Latvia	45.7
Lebanon	63.1
Lesotho	15.4
Liberia	7.9
Libya	28.6
Lithuania	49.5
Luxembourg	141.7
Macedonia	35.4
Madagascar	17.6
Malawi	5.1
Malaysia	50.9
Maldives	16.6
Mali	19
Malta	86.9
Martinique	13.9
Mauritania	29.9
Mexico	58.6
Moldova, Rep	22.7
Mongolia	108.8
Morocco	20.6
Mozambique	5.6
Burma (Myanmar)	10.7
Namibia	34
Nepal	10
Netherlands	89.3
Netherlands Antilles	73.3
New Caledonia	76.6
New Zealand	142.1
Nicaragua	14.9
Niger	11.2
Nigeria	8.6
Norway	61.7
Oman	49.8
Pakistan	12.3
Panama	54.5
Papua New Guinea	73
Paraguay	70.3
Peru	34.5
Philippines	31.1
Poland	78.1
Portugal	91.1
Qatar	90.5
Reunion	46.8
Romania	54.5
Russia	51
Rwanda	4.4
Saint Kitts and Nevis	99.3
Samoa	82.6
Saudi Arabia	44.6
Senegal	17.7
Former Serbia and Montenegro	77.6
Seychelles	51.1
Sierra Leone	6.1
Singapore	71.1
Slovakia	67.4
Slovenia	88
South Africa	39
Spain	118.6
Sri Lanka	6.6
St. Lucia	124.1
St. Vincent/Grenadines	79.1
Sudan	21
Swaziland	34.2
Sweden	76.1
Switzerland	72.9
Syria	21.2
Tajikistan	8.7
Tanzania	10
Thailand	27.9
Togo	8.5
Trinidad and Tobago	57.8
Tunisia	25.5
Turkey	19.3
Uganda	11.7
Ukraine	32.3
United Arab Emirates	74.4
United Kingdom	79.6
United States	124.8
Uruguay	98.6
Uzbekistan	20.7
Vanuatu	32.6
Venezuela	56.6
Vietnam	28.6
Virgin Islands	6.6
Yemen	14.7
Zambia	11.9
Zimbabwe	15.2

• Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), FAOSTAT on-line statistical service (FAO, Rome, 2004). Available online at: http://apps.fao.org
• Meat consumption per capita refers to the total meat retained for use in country per person per year. Total meat includes meat from animals slaughtered in countries, irrespective of their origin, and comprises horsemeat, poultry, and meat from all other domestic or wild animals such as camels, rabbits, reindeer, and game animals
• Per capita calculations were conducted by WRI using FAO data on meat production and trade, and using U.N. data on population. Meat consumption was calculated using a trade balance approach - total production plus imports, minus exports

References

• Brown, Felicity (2 September 2009). "Meat consumption per capita". Retrieved 3 September 2014.