Meat Consumption by Country

China held 104,617 thousand tonnes of listed meat food supply in 2023, 29.6 percent of a 353,793-thousand-tonne total, and supplied 53.3 percent of the five-year net gain. Poultry and pigmeat together account for 72.7 percent of the total, while Myanmar lost nearly two thirds of its 2019 supply. The total increased 2.6 percent from 2022 to 2023, with no reporter declining by more than 200 thousand tonnes. The United States ranked second by total and fourth per person at 122.06 kilograms per person per year.

China leads at 104,617 thousand tonnes, 2.50 times the United States at 41,926, with Brazil third at 22,079 and Russia fourth at 12,328. Per capita the order is Pacific-led: Tonga at 156.95 kilograms from 16 thousand tonnes, then Mongolia at 136.14 and the Marshall Islands at 125.68 kilograms. The United States, second by total, records 122.06 kilograms per person.

Meat Food Supply at a Glance

• China had the largest listed meat food supply in 2023 at 104,617 thousand tonnes.
• The United States ranked second at 41,926 thousand tonnes, followed by Brazil at 22,079 thousand tonnes.
• Tonga had the highest per-capita food supply at 156.95 kilograms per person per year.
• The listed total was 353,793 thousand tonnes across 176 reporters with reported values.
• Among 176 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, listed meat food supply increased by 29,421 thousand tonnes, or 9.1 percent.
• The FAO Food element measures food available for human consumption and is not a direct measure of the amount actually eaten.

Key Takeaways

The meat aggregate covers the meat items in the FAO Food Balances classification: poultry, pigmeat, bovine meat, mutton and goat meat, and other meat, each also treated in a separate article. Poultry at 135,809 thousand tonnes and pigmeat at 121,223 together hold 72.7 percent of the listed total, with bovine meat at 73,178 thousand tonnes in third.

China and India together contributed 68.6 percent of the five-year net gain, while Myanmar's decline contrasts with the overall increase. The single-year increase was shared across the largest reporters with no significant offsetting decline.

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#	Country	2023 (thousand tonnes)2023	2023 (kg per person per year)2023
1	China CN	104.62K	73.54
2	United States US	41.93K	122.06
3	Brazil BR	22.08K	104.57
4	Russia RU	12.33K	84.77
5	India IN	11.68K	8.12
6	Mexico MX	10.15K	78.22
7	Vietnam VN	6.07K	60.48
8	Germany DE	5.98K	70.67
9	United Kingdom GB	5.8K	84.44
10	Indonesia ID	5.61K	19.95
11	France FR	5.34K	80.31
12	Pakistan PK	5.26K	21.24
13	Argentina AR	5.24K	114.95
14	Spain ES	4.83K	100.79
15	South Korea KR	4.35K	84
16	Türkiye TR	4.31K	49.37
17	Italy IT	4.24K	71.2
18	Philippines PH	3.86K	33.64
19	Canada CA	3.73K	94.79
20	South Africa ZA	3.68K	58.27
21	Colombia CO	3.28K	62.59
22	Poland PL	3.23K	83.31
23	Egypt EG	3.16K	27.62
24	Australia AU	3.09K	116.78
25	Iran IR	2.71K	29.9
26	Malaysia MY	2.43K	69.07
27	Taiwan TW	2.13K	91.5
28	Chile CL	1.94K	98.54
29	Saudi Arabia SA	1.93K	58.08
30	Peru PE	1.88K	55.44
31	Ukraine UA	1.87K	49.45
32	Thailand TH	1.76K	24.48
33	Uzbekistan UZ	1.69K	47.36
34	Nigeria NG	1.62K	7.11
35	Romania RO	1.39K	72.45
36	Kazakhstan KZ	1.32K	64.9
37	Netherlands NL	1.3K	71.58
38	Morocco MA	1.24K	32.79
39	Myanmar MM	1.13K	20.88
40	Venezuela VE	1.08K	37.98
41	Portugal PT	1.04K	99.32
42	Bolivia BO	1.03K	84.43
43	Algeria DZ	1.03K	22.27
44	Belarus BY	1.02K	111.72
45	Ecuador EC	1.01K	56.24
46	Israel IL	1.01K	108.73
47	Guatemala GT	983	54.26
48	Iraq IQ	950	24.57
49	Zimbabwe ZW	941	57.58
50	Czech Republic CZ	890	82.29
51	Ethiopia ET	889	6.91
52	Greece GR	840	81.99
53	Tanzania TZ	811	12.17
54	Hong Kong HK	800	107.43
55	Bangladesh BD	770	4.49
56	Hungary HU	739	76.33
57	United Arab Emirates AE	722	67.84
58	Sweden SE	721	68.35
59	Belgium BE	702	59.97
60	Dominican Republic DO	698	61.6
61	Angola AO	683	18.59
62	Austria AT	673	73.71
63	Papua New Guinea PG	607	58.47
64	Denmark DK	602	101.27
65	Malawi MW	596	28.23
66	Ghana GH	587	17.37
67	Serbia RS	570	84.2
68	Switzerland CH	567	63.97
69	Kenya KE	564	10.18
70	Yemen YE	541	13.72
71	Burkina Faso BF	531	23.08
72	Uganda UG	528	10.85
73	Ireland IE	511	98.38
74	Mongolia MN	467	136.14
75	Bulgaria BG	433	63.74
76	Nepal NP	430	14.48
77	Cameroon CM	419	14.76
78	New Zealand NZ	411	79.54
79	Azerbaijan AZ	407	39.43
80	Honduras HN	401	37.69
81	Jordan JO	401	35.09
82	Finland FI	389	69.39
83	Norway NO	389	70.4
84	Croatia HR	388	99.71
85	Slovakia SK	386	70.01
86	Syria SY	383	16.23
87	Tunisia TN	377	30.93
88	Turkmenistan TM	377	51.16
89	Ivory Coast CI	375	12.02
90	DR Congo CD	369	3.49
91	Zambia ZM	365	17.63
92	Senegal SN	362	20.01
93	Mozambique MZ	348	10.35
94	Panama PA	348	78.02
95	Congo CG	345	55.8
96	Tajikistan TJ	342	32.92
97	Costa Rica CR	327	64.12
98	Libya LY	319	43.68
99	Kuwait KW	303	62.54
100	El Salvador SV	288	45.65
101	Kyrgyzstan KG	283	39.97
102	Cambodia KH	281	16.13
103	Sri Lanka LK	266	11.56
104	Afghanistan AF	265	6.39
105	Nicaragua NI	247	36.26
106	Haiti HT	241	20.73
107	Laos LA	238	31.08
108	Uruguay UY	235	69.3
109	Lithuania LT	231	80.87
110	Lebanon LB	220	38.19
111	Guinea GN	219	15.18
112	Qatar QA	213	71.43
113	Niger NE	200	7.66
114	Jamaica JM	190	66.96
115	Oman OM	190	37.59
116	Paraguay PY	184	26.94
117	Mauritania MR	183	36.53
118	Georgia GE	173	45.42
119	Madagascar MG	167	5.34
120	Bosnia and Herzegovina BA	165	51.88
121	Armenia AM	161	54.67
122	Albania AL	159	56.68
123	Gabon GA	157	63.08
124	Latvia LV	156	82.65
125	Slovenia SI	128	60.39
126	Bahrain BH	120	76.26
127	Botswana BW	107	43.27
128	Cyprus CY	105	77.95
129	Moldova MD	104	40.5
130	Trinidad and Tobago TT	99	65.74
131	North Macedonia MK	94	51.48
132	Sierra Leone SL	92	10.82
133	Rwanda RW	90	6.43
134	Estonia EE	88	64.73
135	Macau MO	87	121.23
136	Mauritius MU	82	64.55
137	Guyana GY	73	88.72
138	Namibia NA	72	24.19
139	Liberia LR	68	12.32
140	Montenegro ME	61	96.86
141	Fiji FJ	58	63.16
142	Luxembourg LU	55	83.03
143	Gambia GM	52	19.14
144	Bahamas BS	46	114.91
145	Timor-Leste TL	44	31.81
146	Lesotho LS	43	18.79
147	Iceland IS	38	98.05
148	Malta MT	38	71.76
149	Guinea-Bissau GW	30	14.01
150	Suriname SR	30	48.48
151	Belize BZ	28	68.18
152	Eswatini SZ	28	22.38
153	French Polynesia PF	28	98.47
154	New Caledonia NC	26	89.59
155	Samoa WS	24	109.05
156	Cape Verde CV	23	43.85
157	Comoros KM	23	26.59
158	Barbados BB	22	76.25
159	Djibouti DJ	16	14.07
160	Maldives MV	16	29.62
161	Saint Lucia LC	16	90.33
162	Tonga TO	16	156.95
163	Vanuatu VU	13	40.99
164	Bhutan BT	12	14.66
165	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VC	12	118.47
166	Solomon Islands SB	12	15.62
167	Antigua and Barbuda AG	9	96.37
168	Grenada GD	9	80.46
169	Seychelles SC	9	70.7
170	Micronesia FM	7	63.99
171	Kiribati KI	6	45.09
172	Sao Tome and Principe ST	6	25.19
173	Marshall Islands MH	5	125.68
174	Saint Kitts and Nevis KN	4	88.88
175	Nauru NR	1	109.41
176	Tuvalu TV	1	85.22

China Holds 29.6 Percent as Poultry and Pigmeat Take 72.7 Percent

The 2023 table is led by China at 104,617 thousand tonnes, with the United States second at 41,926 and Brazil third at 22,079. Russia and India complete the top five at 12,328 and 11,679 thousand tonnes, respectively. China holds 29.6 percent of the 353,793-thousand-tonne listed total.

The top three reporters accounted for 47.7 percent of the listed total, the top five 54.4 percent and the top ten 63.9 percent. The composition splits 38.4 percent poultry, 34.3 percent pigmeat, 20.7 percent bovine meat, 5.0 percent mutton and goat meat and 1.7 percent other meat. Per capita, Tonga's 156.95 kilograms per person per year from 16 thousand tonnes lead Mongolia at 136.14 kilograms.

China Adds 5,000 Thousand Tonnes in a 2.6 Percent Annual Rise

Among the 176 reporters with data in both 2022 and 2023, the listed food supply increased from 344,898 thousand tonnes to 353,793 thousand tonnes, a gain of 8,895 thousand tonnes (2.6 percent). The two years share the same 176 reporters, with no reporter entering or leaving the comparison. China added 5,000 thousand tonnes (up 5.0 percent), Brazil added 793 thousand tonnes (up 3.7 percent), Russia added 461 thousand tonnes (up 3.9 percent), India added 349 thousand tonnes (up 3.1 percent), Türkiye added 316 thousand tonnes (up 7.9 percent), Mexico added 275 thousand tonnes (up 2.8 percent), Vietnam added 262 thousand tonnes (up 4.5 percent) and Pakistan added 243 thousand tonnes (up 4.8 percent).

All eight of the largest absolute movers gained, and no reporter declined by more than 200 thousand tonnes, so the 2.6 percent rise describes spread growth rather than a concentrated surge with offsets. China's gain alone equals 56.2 percent of the net annual increase.

China Supplies 53.3 Percent of a 9.1 Percent Five-Year Gain

For the 176 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, the listed food supply rose from 324,372 thousand tonnes to 353,793 thousand tonnes, a gain of 29,421 thousand tonnes (9.1 percent). The 2019 total includes 177 reporters with reported values, while the 2023 total includes 176; Cuba, with 736 thousand tonnes in 2019, had no reported 2023 value. China added 15,678 thousand tonnes (up 17.6 percent), India added 4,495 thousand tonnes (up 62.6 percent), Vietnam added 1,902 thousand tonnes (up 45.6 percent), Türkiye added 1,378 thousand tonnes (up 47.0 percent), Russia added 1,080 thousand tonnes (up 9.6 percent), Mexico added 1,014 thousand tonnes (up 11.1 percent) and Brazil added 1,003 thousand tonnes (up 4.8 percent), while Myanmar fell 2,086 thousand tonnes (down 64.8 percent).

China contributes 53.3 percent of the five-year net increase and India 15.3 percent, so the two together account for 68.6 percent. Myanmar's fall from 3,217 to 1,131 thousand tonnes removed nearly two thirds of its 2019 supply and stands as by far the largest decline in the comparison.

What Does the Meat Food Supply Measure?

The numbers in this article come from the Meat item in the FAO Food Balances, measured under the Food element as food available for human consumption during the reference year. A combined meat total of this kind should not be read as an estimate of what people actually ate. The aggregate sums poultry, pigmeat, bovine meat, mutton and goat meat, and other meat, and each of those items is also covered in a separate article.

The per-capita measure converts the reported food supply into kilograms available per person during the year. It offers a population-adjusted view of the same item, which is why meat looks concentrated in populous countries by total but in Pacific and Central Asian reporters per person.

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#	Country	2019 (1000 t)	2019 (kg/cap/yr)	2020 (1000 t)	2020 (kg/cap/yr)	2021 (1000 t)	2021 (kg/cap/yr)	2022 (1000 t)	2022 (kg/cap/yr)	2023 (1000 t)	2023 (kg/cap/yr)
1	China	88.94K	62.48	83.74K	58.72	93.76K	65.73	99.62K	69.9	104.62K	73.54
2	United States	42.24K	125.05	42.65K	125.63	41.1K	120.83	41.82K	122.46	41.93K	122.06
3	Brazil	21.08K	101.59	20.99K	100.58	20.98K	100.13	21.29K	101.22	22.08K	104.57
4	Russia	11.25K	76.76	11.32K	77.35	11.37K	77.96	11.87K	81.52	12.33K	84.77
5	India	7.18K	5.17	8.69K	6.19	9.19K	6.5	11.33K	7.95	11.68K	8.12
6	Mexico	9.13K	72.63	9.18K	72.41	9.56K	74.91	9.87K	76.76	10.15K	78.22
7	Vietnam	4.17K	42.89	4.66K	47.48	5.27K	53.29	5.81K	58.26	6.07K	60.48
8	Germany	6.67K	79.81	6.56K	78.41	6.3K	75.31	5.98K	71.06	5.98K	70.67
9	United Kingdom	5.48K	81.68	5.66K	84.08	5.56K	82.17	5.71K	83.76	5.8K	84.44
10	Indonesia	5.14K	18.84	4.78K	17.4	4.64K	16.77	5.37K	19.25	5.61K	19.95
11	France	5.6K	85.18	5.52K	83.82	5.49K	83.08	5.49K	82.78	5.34K	80.31
12	Pakistan	4.43K	19.18	4.65K	19.78	4.9K	20.47	5.01K	20.58	5.26K	21.24
13	Argentina	4.94K	109.88	5.17K	114.4	5.05K	111.5	5.17K	113.86	5.24K	114.95
14	Spain	4.93K	104	4.74K	99.38	4.76K	99.81	4.81K	100.47	4.83K	100.79
15	South Korea	4.19K	80.91	4.16K	80.15	4.22K	81.33	4.34K	83.85	4.35K	84
16	Türkiye	2.93K	34.34	3.48K	40.36	3.65K	42.11	3.99K	45.86	4.31K	49.37
17	Italy	4.52K	75.22	4.3K	71.81	4.44K	74.26	4.31K	72.23	4.24K	71.2
18	Philippines	4.03K	36.39	3.81K	33.96	3.77K	33.37	4.02K	35.3	3.86K	33.64
19	Canada	3.51K	92.84	3.47K	90.88	3.4K	88.28	3.52K	90.76	3.73K	94.79
20	South Africa	3.73K	62.67	3.83K	63.21	3.81K	61.95	3.75K	60.09	3.68K	58.27
21	Colombia	3.13K	62.68	2.96K	58.49	3.12K	60.86	3.26K	63.08	3.28K	62.59
22	Poland	3.26K	85.17	3.38K	88.57	3.34K	87.77	3.35K	87.25	3.23K	83.31
23	Egypt	2.8K	26	3.16K	28.87	3.51K	31.61	3.05K	27.08	3.16K	27.62
24	Australia	2.88K	113	3.08K	119.78	2.81K	108.34	2.97K	113.28	3.09K	116.78
25	Iran	3.08K	35.35	2.93K	33.39	2.9K	32.82	2.84K	31.72	2.71K	29.9
26	Malaysia	2.21K	66.11	2.27K	66.88	2.19K	63.97	2.32K	66.96	2.43K	69.07
27	Taiwan	2.06K	86.8	2.22K	93.71	2.06K	87.27	2.12K	90.51	2.13K	91.5
28	Chile	1.74K	90.77	1.69K	87.32	1.89K	97.03	1.81K	92.36	1.94K	98.54
29	Saudi Arabia	1.86K	60.94	1.95K	63	2.02K	64.56	2.12K	65.97	1.93K	58.08
30	Peru	1.8K	55.56	1.76K	53.63	1.82K	54.9	1.85K	55.21	1.88K	55.44
31	Ukraine	2.3K	51.24	2.15K	48.21	2.11K	47.66	1.91K	46.41	1.87K	49.45
32	Thailand	1.86K	25.97	1.83K	25.53	1.87K	26.1	1.85K	25.79	1.76K	24.48
33	Uzbekistan	1.28K	38.96	1.31K	38.9	1.43K	41.63	1.58K	45.16	1.69K	47.36
34	Nigeria	1.49K	7.1	1.47K	6.89	1.64K	7.51	1.66K	7.42	1.62K	7.11
35	Romania	1.29K	65.96	1.32K	68.15	1.32K	68.57	1.36K	71	1.39K	72.45
36	Kazakhstan	1.19K	61.95	1.25K	63.9	1.3K	65.73	1.25K	62.31	1.32K	64.9
37	Netherlands	905	51.63	1.04K	58.93	1.09K	61.7	1.15K	64.07	1.3K	71.58
38	Morocco	1.4K	38.6	1.17K	32.07	1.21K	32.81	1.19K	31.77	1.24K	32.79
39	Myanmar	3.22K	61.11	1.08K	20.3	1.08K	20.3	1.13K	21.05	1.13K	20.88
40	Venezuela	992	34.29	938	32.97	1.16K	40.99	1.13K	40.14	1.08K	37.98
41	Portugal	996	96.31	942	90.86	967	93.02	1.01K	96.74	1.04K	99.32
42	Bolivia	931	79.78	904	76.53	948	79.41	997	82.58	1.03K	84.43
43	Algeria	868	20.04	801	18.2	811	18.12	997	21.93	1.03K	22.27
44	Belarus	813	86.18	874	93.46	855	92.46	882	96.14	1.02K	111.72
45	Ecuador	810	46.73	935	53.29	961	54.35	962	53.96	1.01K	56.24
46	Israel	905	104.53	982	111.56	986	110.31	1.03K	112.68	1.01K	108.73
47	Guatemala	726	42.45	795	45.8	747	42.42	819	45.88	983	54.26
48	Iraq	818	23.14	811	22.44	698	18.89	848	22.42	950	24.57
49	Zimbabwe	820	53.68	815	52.52	898	56.83	932	57.99	941	57.58
50	Czech Republic	853	80.8	845	80.07	864	82.09	894	83.74	890	82.29
51	Ethiopia	796	6.88	849	7.14	803	6.58	802	6.4	889	6.91
52	Greece	841	78.48	752	70.32	800	75.61	828	79.5	840	81.99
53	Tanzania	616	10.41	734	12.04	768	12.23	797	12.31	811	12.17
54	Hong Kong	1.09K	145.5	1.09K	145.26	1.03K	137.43	831	111.26	800	107.43
55	Bangladesh	712	4.32	728	4.38	734	4.38	759	4.48	770	4.49
56	Hungary	832	85.18	794	81.43	793	81.65	763	78.77	739	76.33
57	United Arab Emirates	511	54.53	774	81.92	852	87.01	718	70.06	722	67.84
58	Sweden	718	69.88	690	66.69	692	66.4	719	68.54	721	68.35
59	Belgium	714	62.15	753	65.27	763	65.98	752	64.57	702	59.97
60	Dominican Republic	573	52.61	547	49.73	604	54.29	672	59.79	698	61.6
61	Angola	739	22.82	654	19.54	728	21.07	821	23.04	683	18.59
62	Austria	717	80.75	694	77.79	674	75.13	690	76.09	673	73.71
63	Papua New Guinea	563	58.59	562	57.28	572	57.15	595	58.28	607	58.47
64	Denmark	572	98.33	570	97.69	592	101.15	550	93.23	602	101.27
65	Malawi	482	25.32	570	29.2	581	28.96	609	29.62	596	28.23
66	Ghana	475	15.19	624	19.57	722	22.19	589	17.76	587	17.37
67	Serbia	544	78.1	551	79.81	522	76.39	539	79.36	570	84.2
68	Switzerland	569	66.3	578	66.93	590	67.74	584	66.43	567	63.97
69	Kenya	641	12.51	580	11.12	545	10.23	510	9.4	564	10.18
70	Yemen	541	15.4	585	16.19	582	15.68	542	14.18	541	13.72
71	Burkina Faso	751	35.82	712	33.14	559	25.42	521	23.16	531	23.08
72	Uganda	440	10.22	500	11.24	522	11.37	533	11.27	528	10.85
73	Ireland	399	80.96	406	81.45	441	87.77	452	88.4	511	98.38
74	Mongolia	358	110.85	396	120.41	407	121.74	446	131.59	467	136.14
75	Bulgaria	425	60.93	394	56.88	430	62.59	432	63.31	433	63.74
76	Nepal	472	16.6	552	19.06	521	17.67	513	17.26	430	14.48
77	Cameroon	312	12.23	293	11.17	392	14.57	422	15.26	419	14.76
78	New Zealand	437	87.53	409	80.75	433	84.73	450	87.78	411	79.54
79	Azerbaijan	363	35.93	374	36.7	406	39.65	412	40.06	407	39.43
80	Honduras	351	35.35	339	33.45	411	39.95	391	37.37	401	37.69
81	Jordan	365	34.18	396	36.47	452	40.84	427	37.93	401	35.09
82	Finland	398	72.01	386	69.84	410	74.08	400	71.75	389	69.39
83	Norway	367	68.6	376	69.82	405	74.96	392	71.89	389	70.4
84	Croatia	344	86.34	329	83.28	380	96.85	380	97.14	388	99.71
85	Slovakia	338	62	339	62.17	346	63.58	358	65.45	386	70.01
86	Syria	332	16.3	375	17.83	379	17.53	365	16.24	383	16.23
87	Tunisia	328	27.58	337	28.17	366	30.41	377	31.13	377	30.93
88	Turkmenistan	336	49.42	352	50.63	368	51.85	380	52.52	377	51.16
89	Ivory Coast	338	11.99	350	12.11	320	10.79	357	11.73	375	12.02
90	DR Congo	456	4.9	357	3.72	370	3.73	398	3.89	369	3.49
91	Zambia	303	16.35	349	18.33	337	17.21	362	17.98	365	17.63
92	Senegal	292	17.84	311	18.54	331	19.21	366	20.74	362	20.01
93	Mozambique	245	8.21	285	9.25	323	10.18	437	13.39	348	10.35
94	Panama	383	90.52	335	78.06	341	78.53	340	77.32	348	78.02
95	Congo	210	37.43	234	40.61	266	45.13	287	47.5	345	55.8
96	Tajikistan	314	32.9	316	32.44	337	33.81	354	34.75	342	32.92
97	Costa Rica	323	64.66	301	59.89	304	60.14	314	61.87	327	64.12
98	Libya	273	39.32	295	41.84	338	47.35	308	42.63	319	43.68
99	Kuwait	325	73.05	318	72.28	321	73.66	314	68.45	303	62.54
100	El Salvador	256	41.15	250	40.16	281	44.86	275	43.73	288	45.65
101	Kyrgyzstan	217	33.37	220	32.99	257	37.72	267	38.36	283	39.97
102	Cambodia	181	11	196	11.75	204	12.02	211	12.24	281	16.13
103	Sri Lanka	257	11.48	249	11.02	269	11.87	260	11.37	266	11.56
104	Afghanistan	316	8.34	359	9.19	316	7.9	272	6.71	265	6.39
105	Nicaragua	188	28.99	201	30.64	216	32.46	227	33.65	247	36.26
106	Haiti	218	19.65	243	21.57	252	22.11	228	19.85	241	20.73
107	Laos	198	27.31	210	28.63	217	29.16	225	29.76	238	31.08
108	Uruguay	243	71.6	219	64.46	221	64.95	224	65.92	235	69.3
109	Lithuania	235	84	231	82.53	231	82.7	234	83.12	231	80.87
110	Lebanon	227	39.21	202	35.43	216	37.84	214	37.22	220	38.19
111	Guinea	188	14.43	229	17.13	186	13.57	199	14.19	219	15.18
112	Qatar	225	80.24	233	83.07	230	81.71	242	83.6	213	71.43
113	Niger	188	8.19	203	8.57	196	8.02	199	7.85	200	7.66
114	Jamaica	190	67.32	179	63.34	175	61.64	183	64.63	190	66.96
115	Oman	232	50.52	201	44.37	227	50.41	215	45.51	190	37.59
116	Paraguay	283	43.51	295	44.62	241	36.01	218	32.26	184	26.94
117	Mauritania	141	31.5	141	30.6	153	32.33	178	36.49	183	36.53
118	Georgia	147	38.64	142	37.3	141	37.35	151	39.71	173	45.42
119	Madagascar	163	5.77	161	5.55	162	5.46	155	5.08	167	5.34
120	Bosnia and Herzegovina	155	46.46	145	43.99	153	47.22	157	48.84	165	51.88
121	Armenia	167	57.68	155	53.55	167	58.21	166	57.53	161	54.67
122	Albania	121	42.04	114	39.81	115	40.24	151	53.47	159	56.68
123	Gabon	149	65.79	144	61.81	159	67.04	155	63.65	157	63.08
124	Latvia	138	71.9	132	69.19	137	72.85	154	82.09	156	82.65
125	Slovenia	156	75.06	144	68.59	136	64.45	132	62.34	128	60.39
126	Bahrain	127	85.41	131	88.27	118	78.31	130	84.78	120	76.26
127	Botswana	58	24.83	65	27.63	107	44.68	115	47.31	107	43.27
128	Cyprus	102	79.26	92	70.8	96	72.99	99	74.26	105	77.95
129	Moldova	147	56.12	158	61.39	96	38.18	108	42.47	104	40.5
130	Trinidad and Tobago	107	71.75	91	61.73	88	59.08	96	64.28	99	65.74
131	North Macedonia	89	46.67	85	45.3	91	49.12	89	48.12	94	51.48
132	Sierra Leone	80	10.31	87	11.05	97	12.04	82	9.88	92	10.82
133	Rwanda	109	8.51	109	8.36	93	6.98	84	6.13	90	6.43
134	Estonia	90	67.58	90	67.75	96	71.81	92	68.31	88	64.73
135	Macau	72	107.06	72	105.6	80	115.68	79	111.92	87	121.23
136	Mauritius	72	56.29	69	53.43	71	55.2	79	61.75	82	64.55
137	Guyana	48	59.48	52	64.79	58	71.6	68	82.42	73	88.72
138	Namibia	63	23.77	83	30.34	76	26.92	95	33.03	72	24.19
139	Liberia	92	18.33	94	18.28	103	19.61	67	12.55	68	12.32
140	Montenegro	52	85.13	52	85.48	53	87.61	57	92.47	61	96.86
141	Fiji	49	53.04	41	44.38	40	43.26	59	63.96	58	63.16
142	Luxembourg	52	84.59	54	84.85	55	85.59	56	85.81	55	83.03
143	Gambia	38	15.27	36	14.35	38	14.77	47	18.02	52	19.14
144	Bahamas	37	94.08	43	109.28	47	117.64	44	111.52	46	114.91
145	Timor-Leste	48	36.87	43	32.45	35	26	42	30.32	44	31.81
146	Lesotho	21	9.34	27	11.88	25	11.04	25	11.15	43	18.79
147	Iceland	36	99.35	35	95.39	34	92.01	36	94.81	38	98.05
148	Malta	33	66.15	38	74.18	36	68.46	37	69.17	38	71.76
149	Guinea-Bissau	30	15.16	30	14.79	29	13.98	28	13.28	30	14.01
150	Suriname	38	63.06	38	62.55	37	60.33	36	57.93	30	48.48
151	Belize	19	50.13	20	50.69	21	53.42	27	67.79	28	68.18
152	Eswatini	33	27.76	33	27.83	32	26.41	28	22.68	28	22.38
153	French Polynesia	27	98.4	27	98.09	27	98.06	30	105.77	28	98.47
154	New Caledonia	23	82.84	25	86.56	24	85.63	25	88.02	26	89.59
155	Samoa	21	101.34	21	101.02	23	109.4	22	103.86	24	109.05
156	Cape Verde	23	44.44	22	43.68	21	40.68	23	44.35	23	43.85
157	Comoros	4	5.35	20	24.96	25	31.06	25	29.39	23	26.59
158	Barbados	21	75.64	24	85.26	24	86.52	22	79.67	22	76.25
159	Djibouti	15	13.89	15	13.83	16	14.68	17	14.85	16	14.07
160	Maldives	14	28.29	12	24.22	17	33.75	20	38.04	16	29.62
161	Saint Lucia	12	65.42	11	61.68	17	92.99	17	94.05	16	90.33
162	Tonga	17	164.4	15	141.52	19	182.22	16	151.61	16	156.95
163	Vanuatu	11	38.88	11	38.2	12	40.63	12	37	13	40.99
164	Bhutan	12	15.29	8	10.05	12	15.13	12	15.88	12	14.66
165	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	11	108.25	11	108.8	11	110.87	13	127.5	12	118.47
166	Solomon Islands	10	13.8	10	14.09	12	16.05	12	14.96	12	15.62
167	Antigua and Barbuda	8	84.22	8	81.88	8	89.43	9	94.66	9	96.37
168	Grenada	8	71.1	9	81.11	10	84.11	10	83.47	9	80.46
169	Seychelles	7	57.63	8	63.13	8	64.04	8	64.95	9	70.7
170	Micronesia	7	64.95	7	67.19	8	71.41	7	63.73	7	63.99
171	Kiribati	4	35.58	4	28.38	5	39.12	6	43.91	6	45.09
172	Sao Tome and Principe	5	24.93	5	23.77	5	24.77	5	22.44	6	25.19
173	Marshall Islands	4	82.17	4	103.61	5	118.3	4	111.38	5	125.68
174	Saint Kitts and Nevis	4	85.74	5	103	5	98.42	4	82.56	4	88.88
175	Nauru	1	125.57	1	117.82	1	127.78	1	113.86	1	109.41
176	Tuvalu	1	83.33	1	95.28	1	80.56	1	76.5	1	85.22
177	Cuba	736	65.72	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Meat Consumption by Country: Quick Answer

In 2023, according to FAO Food Balances, the 176 reporters with reported values recorded a combined 353,793 thousand tonnes of listed meat food supply. China had the largest total at 104,617 thousand tonnes, followed by the United States at 41,926 and Brazil at 22,079 thousand tonnes. Tonga had the highest per-capita food supply at 156.95 kilograms per person per year. These figures represent food available for human consumption, not a direct measurement of meat actually eaten.

Methodology

Percentage changes use the corresponding value in the earlier year as the base. Yearly totals use FAO Food Balances food quantity (Element 5142, thousand tonnes), while the per-capita figures use food supply quantity (Element 645, kg/capita/year) for Meat from 2019 through 2023. The Food element represents the quantity available for human consumption during the reference period. It is not a direct measure of the amount actually eaten, because food available for human consumption is not the same as actual dietary intake. No percentage change is shown where the base-year value is zero.

The reporter universe for this item contains 177 reporters. The tables list reporters only; aggregate rows such as World, regions and China (aggregate) are excluded, while China figures refer to the China reporter. For year-to-year comparisons, only reporters with values in both endpoint years are included in the arithmetic. A zero indicates a displayed value of zero, while an empty cell indicates that no value is available for that reporter and year.

Quantities are shown in thousand tonnes as reported, without additional rounding. The FAO dataset reports the Food element in thousand tonnes and food supply quantity in kilograms per capita per year. The listed total of 353,793 thousand tonnes is the sum of the 176 reporters with a reported 2023 value; it excludes aggregate rows and reporters without a 2023 value. This article covers the meat aggregate; individual meat items are treated in separate articles.