Countries by meat production

China had the highest meat production of 197 countries in 2016, at 85,379,290 tonnes. Nauru had the lowest, at 79 tonnes. The median was 222,482 tonnes and the figure for the World was 329,310,309 tonnes. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest85,379,290China

Lowest79Nauru

Median222,482197 countries

World329,310,309History

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tonnes, 2016. Hatched areas have no value for this period. Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Meat; Total, production, t (item 1765, element 5510). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

Top 40 countries, 2016

tonnes. Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Meat; Total, production, t (item 1765, element 5510). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2016 tonnes	Change on 2015
1	China Estimated	85,379,290	-1.8%
2	United States	44,648,240	+3.1%
3	Brazil	24,824,663	-1.2%
4	Russia	9,853,340	+3%
5	India Estimated	9,826,875	+4.1%
6	Germany	8,366,516	+0.4%
7	Spain	6,550,747	+8.1%
8	Mexico	6,531,343	+3.2%
9	France	5,664,373	+0.2%
10	Argentina	5,396,172	-1.6%
11	Australia	4,697,340	-5.4%
12	Canada	4,605,733	+3.7%
13	Vietnam Estimated	4,391,119	+11.7%
14	Poland Estimated	4,261,393	+2.3%
15	United Kingdom	3,943,503	+2.9%
16	Japan	3,921,457	+1.2%
17	Pakistan	3,900,992	+4.8%
18	Italy	3,813,665	+3.9%
19	Philippines Estimated	3,380,956	+0.1%
20	Indonesia	3,348,950	+9.8%
21	South Africa	3,242,910	-1%
22	Türkiye	3,234,658	+2.5%
23	Myanmar	3,076,652	+2.5%
24	Netherlands	2,985,882	+2.5%
25	Thailand Estimated	2,788,214	-0.7%
26	Iran	2,751,768	-3.8%
27	Colombia	2,638,061	+1.7%
28	South Korea Estimated	2,437,210	+0.9%
29	Ukraine	2,375,582	-0.2%
30	Egypt	2,182,325	-1.7%
31	Malaysia	2,003,545	+4.8%
32	Denmark	1,868,370	-0.2%
33	Peru	1,828,750	+4.6%
34	Belgium	1,805,539	-2.4%
35	Chile	1,498,623	+1.1%
36	Taiwan	1,494,128	+2.1%
37	New Zealand	1,440,571	+0.7%
38	Nigeria Estimated	1,391,437	-2.3%
39	Uzbekistan Estimated	1,216,045	+4.3%
40	Venezuela	1,197,410	-17.2%
41	Belarus Estimated	1,173,019	+2.1%
42	Romania	1,127,513	+4%
43	Morocco Estimated	1,081,849	-3%
44	Ireland	1,044,896	+3.4%
45	Hungary	1,016,029	+2.8%
46	Sudan Estimated	957,852	+2.1%
47	Ecuador	943,021	+12.4%
48	Algeria Estimated	921,306	+5.7%
49	Austria	904,770	-0.5%
50	Bolivia	861,098	+2.8%
51	Portugal	856,176	+1.7%
52	Kazakhstan Estimated	820,624	+3.2%
53	Israel	817,194	+4%
54	Saudi Arabia Estimated	811,389	+7.9%
55	Zimbabwe Estimated	786,058	+2.5%
56	Ethiopia Estimated	764,264	+0.8%
57	Uruguay	686,040	+3.9%
58	Bangladesh Estimated	668,710	+2.1%
59	Chad Estimated	664,725	+4.9%
60	Burkina Faso	629,732	-2.4%
61	Tanzania	592,796	+0.9%
62	Paraguay Estimated	584,053	+6.5%
63	Sweden	545,921	-0.7%
64	Guatemala	531,702	+2.2%
65	Czechia	506,240	+0.3%
66	Papua New Guinea Estimated	497,815	+1%
67	Dominican Republic	495,842	+1.7%
68	Serbia	488,644	+5.6%
69	Uganda Estimated	487,872	+1.4%
70	Switzerland	483,298	+0.8%
71	Greece	461,053	+0.3%
72	Kenya	445,115	-40.1%
73	Cameroon	422,641	+13.2%
74	Finland	406,546	+1.6%
75	North Korea Estimated	356,277	+3.3%
76	Yemen	355,143	-6.4%
77	Norway	352,832	+3.3%
78	Cuba	350,911	+7.7%
79	Tunisia	341,553	-1.7%
80	Mongolia	334,641	-10.5%
81	Turkmenistan Estimated	334,265	+5.7%
82	Malawi	325,654	+5.1%
83	Nepal	322,059	+6.1%
84	Syria	317,508	+3.3%
85	Azerbaijan	302,227	+1.2%
86	Panama	302,119	+1.8%
87	Angola Estimated	298,274	+3.9%
88	Afghanistan Estimated	295,536	-2.4%
89	Zambia Estimated	283,968	-0.1%
90	Côte d’Ivoire Estimated	273,727	+4.2%
91	Ghana Estimated	272,505	+1%
92	Jordan Estimated	265,353	+14.3%
93	Nicaragua	264,795	+3.1%
94	Honduras Estimated	263,703	+4.8%
95	Costa Rica	261,904	-0.9%
96	Senegal Estimated	240,971	+4.9%
97	Democratic Republic of the Congo Estimated	240,456	-0.5%
98	Lithuania	231,357	-4.5%
99	Kyrgyzstan	222,482	+1.9%
100	Sri Lanka	217,698	+9%
101	Bulgaria	216,523	+3.2%
102	Croatia	213,615	+3.8%
103	Tajikistan Estimated	212,427	+34.5%
104	Cambodia Estimated	202,137	+0.3%
105	South Sudan Estimated	199,711	+11.2%
106	Somalia Estimated	190,974	-1.6%
107	Mozambique Estimated	190,875	-6.8%
108	Iraq	180,085	+2.7%
109	Lebanon	177,025	+6.3%
110	Central African Republic Estimated	174,701	+0.5%
111	Niger Estimated	174,652	-0.3%
112	Libya Estimated	173,133	-0.2%
113	Laos Estimated	170,054	+7.6%
114	Madagascar Estimated	166,473	+3.9%
115	El Salvador	162,481	+6.1%
116	United Arab Emirates Estimated	161,852	+4.1%
117	Hong Kong Estimated	156,852	-3.7%
118	Mali Estimated	149,798	+15.2%
119	Jamaica	141,576	+12%
120	Moldova	138,173	+5.4%
121	Slovakia	138,115	+8.8%
122	Slovenia	131,908	+8.7%
123	Guinea	126,657	+5.5%
124	Mauritania Estimated	118,525	+1%
125	Kuwait Estimated	111,286	+8%
126	Rwanda Estimated	109,311	-2.9%
127	Haiti Estimated	106,870	+1.3%
128	Armenia	106,144	+5.7%
129	Singapore Estimated	103,289	-0.4%
130	Albania	91,007	+0.6%
131	Botswana Estimated	90,224	-1.4%
132	Latvia	87,176	+2%
133	Bosnia and Herzegovina	83,244	+2.1%
134	Oman Estimated	81,590	+7.8%
135	Palestine Estimated	80,123	+17%
136	Cyprus	79,211	-0.3%
137	Estonia	77,963	-6.1%
138	Benin	76,603	+1.9%
139	Namibia Estimated	74,665	-0.4%
140	Georgia	66,085	-0.9%
141	Trinidad and Tobago	63,807	+23.3%
142	Republic of the Congo Estimated	57,540	-7.9%
143	Togo	51,148	+5%
144	Mauritius	49,107	-1.9%
145	Puerto Rico Estimated	46,216	-6.9%
146	Sierra Leone Estimated	43,568	-1.9%
147	Eritrea Estimated	39,319	+1.3%
148	Gabon Estimated	39,232	+0.5%
149	Guyana	35,276	+3.6%
150	Iceland	33,989	+3.1%
151	Burundi Estimated	33,839	+5.6%
152	Liberia Estimated	33,538	-0.4%
153	Timor-Leste Estimated	33,004	-6.4%
154	Bahrain Estimated	32,571	+13.9%
155	Qatar Estimated	31,490	+23.1%
156	Brunei	26,340	+7.5%
157	Guinea-Bissau Estimated	25,466	-0.7%
158	Luxembourg	24,254	+8.1%
159	Belize	22,311	+2.1%
160	North Macedonia	21,994	+2.7%
161	Eswatini Estimated	20,733	-11.3%
162	Fiji	19,913	-33.2%
163	Barbados	18,138	-6.9%
164	Montenegro	12,704	+40.9%
165	Suriname	12,361	-6.3%
166	Djibouti Estimated	11,128	-0.5%
167	Macao Estimated	11,038	-5%
168	Lesotho Estimated	10,698	-0.8%
169	Malta	10,248	-4.3%
170	Gambia Estimated	8,736	-7.3%
171	Bahamas Estimated	7,242	+3.2%
172	New Caledonia	6,763	-21.8%
173	Vanuatu Estimated	6,597	-5%
174	Cape Verde	5,513	+0.1%
175	Samoa Estimated	4,634	+2.6%
176	Solomon Islands Estimated	3,567	+0.7%
177	Bhutan	2,832	+13.2%
178	Saint Lucia Estimated	2,669	-0.4%
179	Tonga Estimated	2,389	+0.8%
180	Comoros Estimated	2,255	-0.4%
181	Kiribati Estimated	1,853	+1.5%
182	Grenada Estimated	1,816	+1.3%
183	French Polynesia Estimated	1,797	-4.6%
184	Micronesia Estimated	1,418	+1.2%
185	Dominica Estimated	1,398	-0.1%
186	São Tomé and Príncipe	1,347	+11.4%
187	Seychelles Estimated	981	-1.3%
188	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Estimated	904	+1.6%
189	Maldives Estimated	869	+0.8%
190	Faroe Islands Estimated	613	+0.1%
191	Equatorial Guinea Estimated	612	+0.5%
192	Cook Islands Estimated	575	-4.4%
193	Saint Kitts and Nevis Estimated	204	-5%
194	Antigua and Barbuda Estimated	202	-25.6%
195	Tuvalu Estimated	181	+1.1%
196	Niue Estimated	91	+2.1%
197	Nauru Estimated	79	+0.1%

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Meat from animals slaughtered in the country in the calendar year, all species, in tonnes of carcass weight. FAOSTAT item "Meat; Total", the sum FAO calculates from the meat of each species, imported live animals included.

Carcass weight, bone included, so it is higher than the boneless weight in consumption statistics. FAO fills gaps in national reporting with its own estimates and imputations, which are marked as estimated, and revises past years when countries send new figures.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. 4 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2016 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

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China, with 85,379,290 tonnes in 2016, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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Nauru, with 79 tonnes in 2016.

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