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
^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.
^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.