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

Country 2002

(kg/person)

Albania 38.2
Algeria 18.3
American Samoa 24.9
Angola 19
Antigua and Barbuda 56
Argentina 97.6
Armenia 27.7
Austria 94.1
Azerbaijan 15.9
Bahamas, The 123.6
Bahrain 70.7
Bangladesh 3.1
Barbados 88.7
Belarus 58.6
Belgium 86.1
Belize 74.7
Benin 16.2
Bhutan 3
Bolivia 50
Bosnia and Herzegovina 21.4
Botswana 27.3
Brazil 82.4
Brunei 56.4
Bulgaria 69.4
Burkina Faso 11.2
Burundi 3.5
Cambodia 13.9
Cameroon 14.4
Canada 108.1
Cape Verde 26.3
Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) 11.3
Central African Rep 28
Chad 14.3
Chile 66.4
China 52.4
Colombia 33.9
Comoros 7.6
Congo (Brazzaville) 13.3
Congo, Dem Rep 4.8
Costa Rica 40.4
Croatia 49.9
Cuba 32.2
Cyprus 131.3
Czech Rep 77.3
Denmark 145.9
Djibouti 17.1
Dominica 67.1
Dominican Rep 37.8
Ecuador 45
Egypt 22.5
El Salvador 21.4
Estonia 67.4
Ethiopia 7.9
Faeroe Islands 86.4
Fiji 39.1
Finland 67.4
France 101.1
French Guiana 13.2
French Polynesia 112.2
Gabon 46
Gambia, The 5.2
Georgia 26
Germany 82.1
Ghana 9.9
Greece 78.7
Greenland 113.8
Grenada 97
Guadeloupe 12.7
Guam 52.6
Guatemala 23.8
Guinea 6.5
Guinea-Bissau 13
Guyana 31.8
Haiti 15.3
Honduras 24.7
Hungary 100.7
Iceland 84.8
India 5.2
Indonesia 8.3
Iran 23.1
Ireland 106.3
Israel 97.1
Italy 90.4
Jamaica 56.8
Japan 43.9
Jordan 29.8
Kazakhstan 44.8
Kenya 14.3
Korea, North 10.8
Korea, South 48
Kuwait 60.2
Kyrgyzstan 39
Lao People's Dem Rep 15
Latvia 45.7
Lebanon 63.1
Lesotho 15.4
Liberia 7.9
Libya 28.6
Lithuania 49.5
Luxembourg 141.7
Macedonia 35.4
Madagascar 17.6
Malawi 5.1
Malaysia 50.9
Maldives 16.6
Mali 19
Malta 86.9
Martinique 13.9
Mauritania 29.9
Mexico 58.6
Moldova, Rep 22.7
Mongolia 108.8
Morocco 20.6
Mozambique 5.6
Burma (Myanmar) 10.7
Namibia 34
Nepal 10
Netherlands 89.3
Netherlands Antilles 73.3
New Caledonia 76.6
New Zealand 142.1
Nicaragua 14.9
Niger 11.2
Nigeria 8.6
Norway 61.7
Oman 49.8
Pakistan 12.3
Panama 54.5
Papua New Guinea 73
Paraguay 70.3
Peru 34.5
Philippines 31.1
Poland 78.1
Portugal 91.1
Qatar 90.5
Reunion 46.8
Romania 54.5
Russia 51
Rwanda 4.4
Saint Kitts and Nevis 99.3
Samoa 82.6
Saudi Arabia 44.6
Senegal 17.7
Former Serbia and Montenegro 77.6
Seychelles 51.1
Sierra Leone 6.1
Singapore 71.1
Slovakia 67.4
Slovenia 88
South Africa 39
Spain 118.6
Sri Lanka 6.6
St. Lucia 124.1
St. Vincent/Grenadines 79.1
Sudan 21
Swaziland 34.2
Sweden 76.1
Switzerland 72.9
Syria 21.2
Tajikistan 8.7
Tanzania 10
Thailand 27.9
Togo 8.5
Trinidad and Tobago 57.8
Tunisia 25.5
Turkey 19.3
Uganda 11.7
Ukraine 32.3
United Arab Emirates 74.4
United Kingdom 79.6
United States 124.8
Uruguay 98.6
Uzbekistan 20.7
Vanuatu 32.6
Venezuela 56.6
Vietnam 28.6
Virgin Islands 6.6
Yemen 14.7
Zambia 11.9
Zimbabwe 15.2

References

  1. Lawrie, R. A.; Ledward, D. A. (2006). Lawrie’s meat science (7th ed.). Cambridge: Woodhead Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-1-84569-159-2.
  2. McArdle, John. "Humans are Omnivores". Vegetarian Resource Group. Retrieved October 6, 2013.