Countries by meat production

China had the highest meat production of 196 countries in 2022, at 93,589,256 tonnes. Nauru had the lowest, at 78 tonnes. The median was 260,196 tonnes and the figure for the World was 359,722,878 tonnes. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest93,589,256China

Lowest78Nauru

Median260,196196 countries

World359,722,878History

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tonnes, 2022. 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, 2022

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	2022 tonnes	Change on 2021
1	China Estimated	93,589,256	+3.9%
2	United States	47,753,588	+0.7%
3	Brazil	26,414,054	+4.4%
4	Russia	12,244,950	+7.9%
5	India Estimated	12,184,197	+4.6%
6	Mexico	7,889,627	+2.5%
7	Spain	7,563,281	-1.1%
8	Germany	7,028,020	-7.9%
9	Argentina	6,360,486	+3.5%
10	Vietnam Estimated	5,248,055	+5.4%
11	Canada	5,240,009	+0.7%
12	France	5,105,882	-4.8%
13	Poland	5,101,855	-0.2%
14	Pakistan	5,094,931	+5.4%
15	Indonesia	5,060,760	+11.5%
16	Türkiye	4,669,668	+9.7%
17	Australia	4,489,046	+1.5%
18	United Kingdom	4,253,696	+0.7%
19	Japan	4,163,942	-0.2%
20	South Africa	3,546,416	+1%
21	Italy	3,290,740	-7.4%
22	Colombia	3,064,819	+4.5%
23	Thailand Estimated	3,012,936	+1%
24	Netherlands	3,002,805	-1.5%
25	Egypt	2,983,794	-10.3%
26	Philippines	2,908,236	+4.3%
27	South Korea Estimated	2,748,229	+0.8%
28	Iran	2,703,346	-1.6%
29	Peru	2,285,172	+4%
30	Ukraine	2,204,307	-9.6%
31	Denmark	1,882,641	-6.4%
32	Malaysia	1,832,988	-3.1%
33	Belgium	1,723,350	-6.7%
34	Nigeria Estimated	1,670,369	+1.6%
35	Taiwan Estimated	1,604,670	-0.7%
36	Chile	1,560,325	-1%
37	Uzbekistan Estimated	1,470,158	+4.6%
38	New Zealand	1,438,218	-3.9%
39	Saudi Arabia	1,384,657	-3.6%
40	Myanmar	1,259,837	+7%
41	Belarus Estimated	1,220,167	-2.4%
42	Ireland	1,186,244	+2.3%
43	Morocco	1,180,320	-2.5%
44	Venezuela	1,048,863	+0.2%
45	Kazakhstan	1,046,063	+0.5%
46	Bolivia	1,019,621	+5.5%
47	Algeria Estimated	1,001,450	+3.4%
48	Ecuador	984,104	+17.1%
49	Romania	965,220	-1.9%
50	Hungary	960,873	-9.1%
51	Sudan Estimated	959,849	-1.9%
52	Zimbabwe Estimated	924,600	+3.5%
53	Chad Estimated	916,174	+7%
54	Israel	865,066	+2.7%
55	Portugal	859,039	-0%
56	Austria	847,184	-3.1%
57	Ethiopia Estimated	844,885	-5.5%
58	Tanzania	828,541	+4.1%
59	Bangladesh Estimated	750,946	+2%
60	Uruguay	744,859	+5.9%
61	Guatemala	697,467	+11.9%
62	Paraguay	667,639	-0.6%
63	Uganda Estimated	638,374	+0.5%
64	Sweden	569,530	-2%
65	Mongolia	547,734	+27.5%
66	Malawi Estimated	532,104	-4.1%
67	Kenya	528,541	-5.3%
68	Serbia	526,480	+0.6%
69	Burkina Faso	520,656	+1.9%
70	Papua New Guinea Estimated	519,835	-1.3%
71	Nepal	512,789	-1.5%
72	Dominican Republic	501,574	-2.1%
73	Switzerland	494,713	+0.5%
74	Czechia	471,120	-4.7%
75	Greece	458,891	+5.5%
76	Yemen Estimated	442,296	+2.8%
77	Cameroon Estimated	422,663	+7.6%
78	Tajikistan Estimated	405,335	+6.1%
79	Finland	403,712	-1.8%
80	Côte d’Ivoire Estimated	398,224	+20.1%
81	Mozambique Estimated	382,414	+18.6%
82	Tunisia	374,621	+0.4%
83	Norway	372,779	+0.5%
84	Azerbaijan	368,233	+3%
85	Turkmenistan Estimated	359,618	+1%
86	North Korea Estimated	343,252	+5.5%
87	Jordan	342,902	+4.9%
88	Syria	340,473	-2.2%
89	Senegal	338,317	+7.4%
90	Angola Estimated	330,507	+4%
91	Nicaragua	323,255	-1.2%
92	Zambia Estimated	314,124	-3%
93	Cuba Estimated	312,525	+21.5%
94	Costa Rica	310,486	+0.9%
95	Honduras Estimated	301,836	+1.1%
96	Ghana Estimated	301,276	+0.9%
97	Panama Estimated	292,884	-4%
98	Afghanistan Estimated	260,651	-3.8%
99	Sri Lanka	259,740	-3.6%
100	Iraq	259,594	+7.8%
101	Kyrgyzstan	257,741	+5.2%
102	Democratic Republic of the Congo Estimated	251,022	-0.3%
103	Croatia	232,259	-4.6%
104	Bulgaria	231,509	+2.8%
105	South Sudan Estimated	222,789	+2.6%
106	Laos Estimated	212,437	+3.2%
107	Lithuania	202,751	-5%
108	Niger	201,856	+1.1%
109	Cambodia Estimated	190,416	-3.3%
110	Central African Republic Estimated	187,115	0%
111	Somalia Estimated	185,768	+19.6%
112	Lebanon Estimated	184,593	-4.7%
113	El Salvador	183,617	+0.5%
114	Libya Estimated	182,710	+0.9%
115	United Arab Emirates Estimated	173,396	+0.9%
116	Mali Estimated	171,041	+7.4%
117	Jamaica	156,802	+12.4%
118	Hong Kong Estimated	155,379	+10.9%
119	Madagascar Estimated	153,960	-1%
120	Slovenia	137,831	-2.8%
121	Mauritania Estimated	129,314	+1.6%
122	Guinea	123,845	+5.9%
123	Kuwait Estimated	117,892	-3.7%
124	Botswana	112,779	+11.3%
125	Haiti Estimated	107,597	-0%
126	Benin	104,871	+9.4%
127	Armenia	103,728	-6.2%
128	Latvia	92,219	+1.4%
129	Oman Estimated	89,800	+2.5%
130	Bosnia and Herzegovina	87,089	+1.3%
131	Rwanda Estimated	85,008	-10.6%
132	Albania	80,829	+2.8%
133	Cyprus	79,171	-3.5%
134	Estonia	75,393	-3%
135	Georgia	74,638	+2.8%
136	Namibia Estimated	73,318	+12.6%
137	Togo	70,729	+11.5%
138	Moldova	69,536	+13.2%
139	Singapore Estimated	68,815	-30%
140	Palestine Estimated	63,177	-10.7%
141	Guyana	61,820	+15.4%
142	Republic of the Congo Estimated	60,970	+0.8%
143	Mauritius	59,162	+13.2%
144	Trinidad and Tobago	54,193	+2.3%
145	Fiji	51,276	+61.5%
146	Sierra Leone Estimated	49,103	+1.8%
147	Burundi Estimated	45,646	+7.9%
148	Eritrea Estimated	42,575	+0.8%
149	Gabon Estimated	40,725	-1.3%
150	Bahrain Estimated	37,961	+3.6%
151	Liberia Estimated	34,397	+0.1%
152	Iceland	33,756	-1.8%
153	Qatar	33,616	-29%
154	Brunei	33,233	-5.2%
155	Timor-Leste Estimated	30,723	+12.6%
156	Puerto Rico Estimated	28,952	-10.9%
157	Guinea-Bissau Estimated	27,116	-0.8%
158	Belize	25,060	+7.3%
159	North Macedonia	23,842	-3%
160	Eswatini Estimated	23,454	-0.1%
161	Luxembourg	22,741	-2.1%
162	Barbados	18,620	+13.7%
163	Suriname Estimated	16,449	-3.8%
164	Montenegro Estimated	13,254	+5.6%
165	Djibouti Estimated	11,591	+0.7%
166	Malta	9,941	-1.2%
167	Macao Estimated	9,037	-1.1%
168	Lesotho Estimated	8,821	+0.2%
169	Gambia Estimated	7,337	+0.5%
170	New Caledonia	6,903	+0.5%
171	Bahamas Estimated	6,628	-3.2%
172	Vanuatu Estimated	5,378	-6.6%
173	Bhutan	4,556	+11.9%
174	Cape Verde	4,469	-0.6%
175	Solomon Islands Estimated	3,595	+0.3%
176	Saint Lucia Estimated	3,178	+5.7%
177	Samoa Estimated	3,175	-3.8%
178	Tonga Estimated	2,443	+0.6%
179	Seychelles Estimated	2,293	+2.9%
180	Comoros Estimated	2,286	-0.2%
181	Grenada	2,214	+20.3%
182	Kiribati Estimated	2,158	+2%
183	French Polynesia Estimated	1,897	-1.8%
184	São Tomé and Príncipe Estimated	1,679	+9.6%
185	Micronesia Estimated	1,461	+0.8%
186	Dominica Estimated	1,403	0%
187	Maldives Estimated	863	+0.3%
188	Faroe Islands Estimated	718	+7%
189	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	661	-15.3%
190	Equatorial Guinea Estimated	645	+0.8%
191	Cook Islands Estimated	467	-0.4%
192	Antigua and Barbuda Estimated	212	+43.5%
193	Tuvalu Estimated	188	+0.4%
194	Saint Kitts and Nevis Estimated	157	+25.1%
195	Niue Estimated	95	-0.1%
196	Nauru Estimated	78	-0.2%

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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. 5 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2022 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

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FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Meat; Total, production, t (item 1765, element 5510). Accessed on 2026-10-12. https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip Licence: CC-BY-4.0. FAO does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data.

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  title = {{Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Meat; Total, production, t (item 1765, element 5510): Countries by meat production, 2022}},
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}

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China, with 93,589,256 tonnes in 2022, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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Nauru, with 78 tonnes in 2022.

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