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Countries that eat the most meat per person

How much meat is available per person per year, country by country, from the UN food agency’s balance sheets.

Source FAO, as of 31 December 2023 · meat supply (kg per person a year)

(FAOSTAT), Food Balances — meat available to eat per person, in kilograms a year, 2023, the latest year published. This is food SUPPLY at the household, not measured eating: it still includes what is thrown away and the bone in a bone-in cut, and FAO derives every figure from a country’s whole balance sheet, so all 177 are flagged as FAO estimates rather than national returns. FAO’s "Meat" is its own total of bovine, sheep and goat, pig, poultry and other meat, and excludes edible offal, which FAO counts separately. FAO serves "China" as an aggregate of its mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao alongside all four parts; this list ranks the aggregate, as a player would name it, and drops the parts. The rows are FAO’s reporting areas, two of which are French collectivities rather than countries — French Polynesia and New Caledonia — because FAO compiles a separate food balance for each. Regional aggregates — World, continents, the European Union — are excluded. Published as one row per area per year and unranked; ranked here.

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