List of countries by meat consumption

This is a list of countries by meat consumption. Meat is animal flesh that is eaten as food.^[1] Humans have hunted and killed animals for meat since prehistoric times.^[2] The advent of civilization allowed the domestication of animals such as chickens, sheep, fish, seafood, pigs and cattle, and eventually their use in meat production on an industrial scale.

Countries by meat consumption

• Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), FAOSTAT on-line statistical service (FAO, Rome, 2004). Available online at: http://apps.fao.org
• Meat consumption per capita refers to the total meat retained for use in country per person per year. Total meat includes meat from animals slaughtered in countries, irrespective of their origin, and comprises horsemeat, poultry, and meat from all other domestic or wild animals such as camels, rabbits, reindeer, and game animals
• Per capita calculations were conducted by WRI using FAO data on meat production and trade, and using U.N. data on population. Meat consumption was calculated using a trade balance approach - total production plus imports, minus exports

References

• Brown, Felicity (2 September 2009). "Meat consumption per capita". Retrieved 3 September 2014. 

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