Insights into international tendencies in meat manufacturing – Swine information

Global meat manufacturing reached 357 million tonnes in 2021, up 53%, or 124 million tonnes in comparison with 2000. From 2020 to 2021, manufacturing greater through 4% which used to be the quickest over the 2000–2021 duration.

With 34% of the worldwide manufacturing in 2021, hen meat confirmed the biggest expansion in absolute and relative phrases since 2000 (+107%, or 63 million tonnes) and used to be essentially the most produced form of meat in 2021. Pig meat additionally represented 34% of the overall in 2021, in comparison to 39% in 2000 and 32% in 2020. African swine fever began affecting Asian international locations in overdue 2018 and persevered in 2019 and 2020. It led to an 11 million tonnes lower in global pig meat manufacturing between 2018 and 2019, with China being toughest hit, and saved constraining manufacturing in 2020. Then again, pig meat manufacturing rebounded in 2021 to 120 million tonnes (+11%) – above the 2018 degree – and drove the robust building up in international meat manufacturing discussed above. The proportion of livestock meat dropped from 24% in 2000 to twenty% in 2020.

The highest 3 generating international locations accounted for 60% of worldwide pig meat manufacturing and 41–42% of world hen and livestock meat manufacturing in 2021. China and america of The us are a few of the 3 biggest manufacturers for every major meat kind: specifically, China by myself accounted for 45% of worldwide pig meat in 2021, and america of The us produced 17 to 18% of worldwide hen and livestock meat. The variation between the 2 international locations is that meat manufacturing in China is most commonly for the home marketplace, while a vital percentage of American meat manufacturing (particularly in terms of hen) is exported.

November 30, 2023/ FAO. 2023. Global Meals and Agriculture – Statistical Yearbook 2023. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/cc8166en