Largest countries by meat consumption Globally
Largest countries by meat consumption Globally:- Meat production doubled in the 30 years from 1988 to 2018 and has grown four-fold since the mid-1960s. And production is predicted to continue to grow.
As a result, by 2050, global meat consumption is estimated to reach between 460 million and a staggering 570 million tons. Five hundred seventy million tons would mean a meat consumption twice as high as in 2008.
Meat consumption is related to living standards, diet, livestock production, consumer prices, macroeconomic tension, and shocks to GDP.
Compared to other commodities, meat is described by high production costs and high output prices.
Meat demand is connected with higher incomes and a change – due to urbanization – in food consumption shifts that prefer high proteins from animal sources in diets.
While the global meat industry delivers food and a livelihood for billions of people, it also has substantial environmental and health effects on the planet. This indicator is for beef, veal, pig, poultry, and sheep.
Meat consumption is estimated in thousand tonnes of carcass weight and kilograms of retail weight per capita.
Carcass weight to retail weight conversion factors is 0.7 for beef and veal, 0.78 for pigmeat, and 0.88 for sheep and poultry meat.
Largest countries by meat consumption Globally
Country | KG/Person (2016) | KG/Person (2017) | Meat supply per capita In KG | |
Absolute Change | Relative Change | |||
Hong Kong | 352 | 376 | +24KG | +7KG |
United States of America | 337 | 340 | +3KG | +1 KG |
Australia | 337 | 333 | -4 KG | -1 KG |
Argentina | 296 | 300 | +3 KG | +1 KG |
Macao | 285 | 283 | -3 KG | -1 KG |
New Zealand | 278 | 276 | -1 KG | 0 KG |
Spain | 268 | 275 | +6 KG | +2 KG |
Brazil | 267 | 274 | +7 KG | +3 KG |
Israel | 265 | 266 | +1 KG | 0 KG |
Samoa | 267 | 265 | -2 KG | -1 KG |
French Polynesia | 265 | 263 | -2 KG | -1 KG |
Portugal | 254 | 258 | +3 KG | +1 KG |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 250 | 249 | +0 KG | 0 KG |
Iceland | 242 | 249 | +8 KG | +3 KG |
Saint Lucia | 258 | 249 | -9 KG | -3 KG |
Poland | 236 | 243 | +7 KG | +3 KG |
Mongolia | 237 | 242 | +5 KG | +2 KG |
Germany | 243 | 241 | -2 KG | -1 KG |
Austria | 241 | 239 | -2 KG | -1 KG |
Chile | 232 | 228 | -4 KG | -2 KG |
France | 234 | 228 | +6 KG | -3 KG |
Czechia | 223 | 227 | +4 KG | +2 KG |
Canada | 230 | 226 | -3 KG | -1 KG |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | 213 | 226 | +13 KG | +6 KG |
Malta | 213 | 225 | +12 KG | +5 KG |
Belarus | 220 | 223 | +3 KG | +1 KG |
Lithuania | 216 | 223 | +7 KG | +3 KG |
Italy | 210 | 222 | +12 KG | +6 KG |
Luxembourg | 225 | 219 | -5 KG | -2 KG |
United Kingdom | 221 | 219 | -2 KG | -1 KG |
Hungary | 213 | 218 | +6 KG | +3 KG |
Ireland | 215 | 216 | +0 KG | 0 KG |
Taiwan | 210 | 213 | +2 KG | +1 KG |
Sweden | 215 | 211 | -4 KG | -2 KG |
Finland | 206 | 210 | +4 KG | +2 KG |
Russia | 202 | 210 | +8 KG | +4 KG |
Slovenia | 208 | 209 | +1 KG | 0 KG |
Netherlands | 209 | 208 | +1 KG | -1 KG |
Croatia | 195 | 206 | +11 KG | +6 KG |
Montenegro | 205 | 200 | +5 KG | -3 KG |
Cyprus | 196 | 200 | +4 KG | +2 KG |
Antigua and Barbuda | 176 | 197 | +22 KG | +12 KG |
Greece | 188 | 196 | +8 KG | +4 KG |
Bolivia | 192 | 196 | +4 KG | +2 KG |
Barbados | 202 | 196 | -6 KG | -3 KG |
Denmark | 192 | 194 | +2KG | +1 KG |
South Korea | 189 | 194 | +5 KG | +3 KG |
Latvia | 180 | 188 | +8 KG | +5 KG |
Trinidad and Tobago | 190 | 188 | -2 KG | -1 KG |
New Caledonia | 194 | 188 | -6 KG | -3 KG |
Switzerland | 188 | 185 | +3 KG | -2 KG |
Norway | 187 | 185 | +3 KG | -1 KG |
Kuwait | 186 | 184 | -2 KG | -1 KG |
Bahamas | 191 | 184 | -8 KG | -4 KG |
Belgium | 174 | 180 | +7 KG | +4 KG |
Panama | 180 | 178 | -2 KG | -1 KG |
Kazakhstan | 172 | 178 | +6 KG | +3 KG |
Mexico | 174 | 178 | +4 KG | +2 KG |
Romania | 180 | 175 | -5 KG | -3 KG |
Estonia | 181 | 174 | -7 KG | -4 KG |
Vietnam | 174 | 174 | 0 KG | 0 KG |
United Arab Emirates | 176 | 170 | -6 KG | -4 KG |
China | 167 | 166 | -1 KG | 0 KG |
Turkmenistan | 157 | 165 | +8 KG | +5 KG |
South Africa | 171 | 164 | -7 KG | -4 KG |