List of countries by meat consumption

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This is a list of countries by meat consumption. Meat is animal flesh that is eaten as food.[1] 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),[2] 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.[3][4][5] 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.[6]


Countries by meat consumption (per capita meat carcass mass availability)[edit]

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[edit]

  1. ^ Lawrie, R. A.; Ledward, D. A. (2006). Lawrie’s meat science (7th ed.). Cambridge: Woodhead Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-1-84569-159-2. 
  2. ^ FAOSTAT. (Statistical database of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United States. Methods and Standards. http://faostat3.fao.org/mes/methodology_list/E
  3. ^ Loss-adjusted food availability documentation. United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-availability-(per-capita)-data-system/loss-a<djusted-food-availability-documentation.aspx
  4. ^ Buzby, J. C. H. F. Wells, B. Axtman and J. Mickey. 2009. Supermarket loss estimates for fresh fruit, vegetables, meat, poultry, and seafood and their use in the ERS loss-adjusted food availability data. United States Department of Agriculture. Econ. Infor. Bull. EIB-44. 26 pp.
  5. ^ Muth, M. K., S. A.Karns, S. J. Nielsen, J. C. Buzby and H. F. Wells. 2011. Consumer-level food loss estimates and their use in the ERS loss-adjusted food availability data. United States Department of Agriculture Tech. Bull. TB-1927. 123 pp.
  6. ^ Food availability (per capita) data system. (Excel files). United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-availability-(per-capita)-data-system/.aspx#26705