Meat consumption around the world

How many kilos of meat are available to each person every year? Hover over or tap a country to see the details, and pick a meat type to compare beef, pork or poultry.

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kg per person per year

Source: FAO, food balances 2023

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What the map shows

The gaps are huge: more than 180 kg of meat per person per year in Tonga, compared with less than 5 kg in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The biggest consumers are in the Americas, Europe and Oceania, while sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia remain far below the world average of around 46 kg.

Income explains much of the pattern: the richer a country, the more meat its people tend to eat. But culture matters too. India eats very little meat for its level of development, partly because it is also the country with the most vegetarians. At the other end, Mongolia ranks second in the world, with a diet built around nomadic herding on land where crops are hard to grow.

To dig into those differences—income, geography, and food traditions—read our article Which countries consume the most meat?

Full ranking by country

World map of meat consumption per person (kg per person per year)
Rank	Country
1	Tonga	182.1	13.0	33.2	87.8	20.5	0.4	27.4
2	Mongolia	174.7	39.5	1.8	7.7	55.5	35.5	34.7
3	St. Vincent & Grenadines	156.3	10.5	17.8	86.1	0.6	0.3	40.9
4	Marshall Islands	155.1	13.9	29.2	74.2	1.0	0.0	36.8
5	Bahamas	148.1	9.8	29.7	65.9	3.2	0.3	39.2
6	Nauru	145.0	10.9	32.8	53.0	4.6	0.0	43.8
7	Macao	143.4	18.7	48.3	42.8	0.6	0.2	32.7
8	Grenada	136.6	6.6	21.0	45.4	2.2	1.6	59.8
9	Hong Kong	133.1	10.1	41.9	41.3	0.9	0.1	38.7
10	Ireland	131.5	29.0	27.6	52.9	4.4	–	17.6
11	Argentina	129.4	57.7	20.4	46.7	1.1	0.1	3.3
12	Barbados	122.3	9.0	9.7	48.5	3.9	0.2	51.1
13	Australia	122.3	25.6	16.9	53.0	13.6	0.3	13.0
14	Iceland	121.5	15.6	23.0	31.4	18.0	0.0	33.5
15	Samoa	120.7	11.3	16.8	71.9	8.1	0.0	12.5
16	Belarus	120.6	29.2	35.4	46.1	0.1	–	9.8
17	New Caledonia	119.9	19.2	27.5	37.2	1.1	0.0	35.0
18	French Polynesia	119.7	19.7	17.6	51.2	1.7	0.3	29.2
19	Montenegro	117.1	14.3	52.1	21.7	1.7	0.2	27.0
20	Israel	112.2	29.3	1.3	73.0	5.2	0.4	3.0
21	United States	108.2	25.1	24.9	54.5	0.5	0.1	3.0
22	Brazil	106.2	36.0	21.3	47.5	0.6	0.2	0.7
23	St. Lucia	105.4	5.8	17.2	64.3	1.9	0.5	15.7
24	Belize	105.2	4.9	15.4	47.3	0.3	0.0	37.3
25	St. Kitts & Nevis	104.7	5.6	15.7	62.8	1.8	0.4	18.4
26	Chile	104.4	22.3	30.0	37.9	0.3	0.3	13.6
27	Luxembourg	104.0	26.8	30.2	19.6	0.9	0.1	26.5
28	Antigua & Barbuda	102.6	11.5	11.0	67.6	0.8	1.2	10.6
29	Tuvalu	101.5	4.3	20.8	53.6	3.8	0.0	19.0
30	Guyana	101.3	3.7	6.4	76.8	0.9	0.4	13.1
31	Portugal	96.9	20.9	36.1	35.0	1.9	0.2	2.7
32	Norway	94.1	12.2	25.1	21.4	4.4	0.1	30.8
33	Canada	93.7	20.4	24.1	41.6	1.1	0.0	6.6
34	Panama	92.8	14.4	11.7	53.8	0.0	–	13.0
35	Seychelles	92.4	9.9	12.7	40.3	2.8	0.6	26.2
36	United Kingdom	92.1	12.3	22.6	38.2	4.2	0.0	14.7
37	Denmark	90.1	15.2	52.0	20.1	0.7	0.0	2.0
38	Taiwan	89.4	6.9	37.9	42.3	0.9	0.2	1.2
39	Jamaica	89.1	7.5	4.3	56.7	0.9	0.2	19.5
40	Croatia	88.2	16.5	45.7	20.0	2.1	0.2	3.8
41	Spain	87.0	10.2	38.6	33.4	1.8	0.2	2.7
42	Bolivia	86.2	23.3	8.2	45.2	3.5	0.9	5.2
43	New Zealand	86.2	15.9	15.5	27.5	19.0	0.1	8.1
44	Poland	85.6	0.9	51.9	30.4	0.0	0.0	2.4
45	Cyprus	85.6	6.8	22.4	31.6	2.6	1.6	20.5
46	Finland	84.6	16.8	27.0	24.8	0.4	0.0	15.5
47	France	84.4	19.5	31.0	25.4	2.3	0.1	6.1
48	Serbia	83.1	11.8	40.8	21.5	5.2	0.5	3.4
49	Latvia	83.1	8.0	36.6	32.8	0.3	0.0	5.3
50	Mexico	82.2	15.3	25.9	38.6	0.6	0.4	1.3
51	Czechia	82.0	8.3	38.3	25.6	0.3	0.0	9.5
52	Qatar	81.9	10.4	0.1	48.1	8.8	0.6	13.8
53	Lithuania	81.3	4.1	47.2	28.4	0.4	0.0	1.1
54	Russia	80.7	15.0	28.1	35.4	1.6	0.1	0.6
55	South Korea	80.0	17.8	36.2	24.7	0.5	0.2	0.7
56	Sweden	79.0	16.6	31.2	18.9	1.4	0.0	10.9
57	China	79.0	8.3	45.0	19.2	2.6	2.0	1.8
58	Netherlands	78.8	15.9	33.1	24.6	0.9	0.1	4.2
59	Bahrain	78.7	11.5	0.7	38.9	24.9	0.2	2.6
60	Micronesia	76.3	5.8	18.7	37.6	0.0	0.1	14.0
61	Austria	75.8	10.7	39.2	21.9	1.0	0.1	2.8
62	Kuwait	75.1	8.0	–	36.5	16.3	0.3	14.0
63	Uruguay	74.6	23.4	20.4	24.4	0.9	–	5.6
64	Fiji	74.6	7.2	1.5	46.2	9.5	0.7	9.5
65	Romania	73.9	5.1	33.5	25.2	3.4	0.3	6.4
66	Mauritius	73.4	7.5	4.1	49.0	3.3	0.0	9.6
67	Kazakhstan	73.4	21.5	5.1	23.3	7.2	0.9	15.4
68	Hungary	73.2	1.9	44.8	25.1	0.2	0.0	1.2
69	Slovakia	71.2	4.3	37.8	22.4	0.1	0.0	6.6
70	Armenia	70.8	25.8	11.8	18.1	4.4	0.0	10.7
71	Gabon	70.4	7.2	9.9	35.2	0.5	0.2	17.3
72	Slovenia	70.3	9.9	17.5	30.8	0.8	0.2	11.3
73	Greece	70.2	11.3	18.9	31.4	6.0	1.9	0.8
74	Vietnam	69.4	8.0	40.6	19.8	0.0	0.3	0.7
75	Albania	68.6	16.2	7.4	25.5	7.6	3.6	8.3
76	Saudi Arabia	68.5	5.6	0.0	42.9	6.6	1.4	12.0
77	United Arab Emirates	68.3	7.7	0.0	46.7	4.2	4.9	4.7
78	Malaysia	67.9	6.5	6.6	51.9	1.1	0.1	1.8
79	Bulgaria	67.4	3.0	30.9	27.0	1.8	0.2	4.5
80	Switzerland	67.2	15.3	26.3	17.5	1.2	0.1	6.9
81	Zimbabwe	66.8	52.1	1.1	6.5	0.3	2.5	4.4
82	Trinidad & Tobago	66.3	5.7	6.2	50.7	1.2	1.1	1.5
83	Colombia	65.9	15.0	14.1	35.7	0.0	0.0	1.2
84	Italy	65.7	14.8	27.6	20.4	0.9	0.0	2.0
85	South Africa	65.6	20.5	5.8	35.2	2.9	0.3	0.9
86	Estonia	65.1	7.2	25.1	20.7	0.4	0.0	11.7
87	Cape Verde	64.7	3.0	15.3	24.6	0.3	1.5	20.1
88	Germany	64.5	10.2	35.6	17.1	0.8	0.0	0.8
89	Malta	63.5	12.5	20.4	26.6	1.0	0.0	3.0
90	Belgium	63.2	8.9	33.9	16.0	0.9	0.0	3.5
91	Bosnia & Herzegovina	63.2	16.1	12.0	22.6	0.6	–	11.9
92	Republic of the Congo	62.3	4.6	11.2	36.7	0.1	0.2	9.5
93	Dominican Republic	62.2	7.0	13.3	41.0	0.2	0.1	0.6
94	Papua New Guinea	62.0	1.0	9.6	3.9	2.5	0.0	45.0
95	Costa Rica	61.9	12.4	14.5	35.0	0.0	0.1	0.1
96	North Macedonia	61.4	9.6	16.3	24.7	1.2	–	9.5
97	Ecuador	61.3	14.3	12.4	31.7	0.5	0.0	2.4
98	Turkmenistan	60.3	27.7	0.1	8.2	18.6	2.2	3.5
99	Peru	59.1	6.7	6.0	43.7	1.0	0.2	1.7
100	Suriname	58.8	4.0	7.0	36.6	0.0	0.0	11.1
101	Libya	58.2	4.5	0.0	38.5	5.1	1.8	8.3
102	Georgia	57.8	9.2	13.5	20.1	1.5	0.0	13.5
103	Botswana	57.2	23.8	0.5	3.1	0.7	1.9	27.1
104	El Salvador	53.8	9.2	4.6	29.9	0.0	0.0	10.1
105	Uzbekistan	53.8	36.4	0.2	6.9	8.1	–	2.4
106	Timor-Leste	52.4	1.9	12.7	14.6	0.0	0.4	22.7
107	Türkiye	52.2	20.8	0.0	21.5	7.4	1.7	0.8
108	Guatemala	51.8	15.7	4.3	29.6	0.2	0.0	2.0
109	Moldova	50.9	1.0	10.8	27.0	0.0	–	12.1
110	Azerbaijan	50.4	18.0	0.8	15.7	9.6	0.0	6.3
111	Ukraine	50.0	7.4	16.1	25.2	0.2	0.2	1.0
112	Kyrgyzstan	49.6	18.4	0.9	8.7	10.6	1.4	9.5
113	Kiribati	48.6	2.5	14.7	25.2	0.5	–	5.7
114	Vanuatu	46.5	8.5	12.4	19.8	0.0	0.0	5.6
115	Nicaragua	44.9	5.2	5.3	26.1	0.0	0.0	8.4
116	Laos	44.9	11.2	16.7	7.4	0.0	0.5	9.1
117	Honduras	44.4	6.0	6.0	24.3	0.0	0.0	8.1
118	Mauritania	43.5	7.5	0.0	11.3	10.0	4.4	10.2
119	Philippines	43.1	3.3	19.1	17.0	0.0	0.3	3.3
120	Tajikistan	43.0	26.6	0.3	4.6	6.8	–	4.6
121	Oman	42.2	5.8	1.1	14.9	9.7	4.4	6.4
122	Maldives	41.3	6.5	0.8	17.4	2.0	0.0	14.6
123	Venezuela	40.9	13.5	4.5	18.9	0.1	0.3	3.6
124	Lebanon	40.3	13.2	0.9	22.4	0.6	0.6	2.7
125	Jordan	38.5	6.6	0.0	23.1	4.9	0.9	2.9
126	Morocco	36.2	8.3	0.0	18.8	5.5	1.0	2.6
127	Paraguay	35.7	9.1	10.6	9.7	0.3	0.2	5.9
128	Tunisia	33.4	4.9	0.0	20.2	5.5	1.1	1.7
129	Namibia	32.7	6.0	4.8	9.2	3.3	1.5	7.9
130	Eswatini	32.5	13.8	2.1	4.8	0.2	2.8	8.8
131	Malawi	31.1	3.6	19.1	4.7	0.1	3.4	0.2
132	Iran	31.1	3.7	0.0	23.5	3.2	0.4	0.3
133	Iraq	31.0	4.6	0.3	17.9	1.7	0.3	6.2
134	Djibouti	31.0	7.1	0.2	3.2	2.5	2.4	15.7
135	Comoros	30.8	4.6	0.1	21.9	0.2	0.5	3.5
136	Egypt	29.7	9.0	0.0	19.0	0.5	0.2	1.0
137	São Tomé & Príncipe	28.9	2.3	5.4	17.6	0.0	0.1	3.5
138	Burkina Faso	27.5	6.8	9.3	6.7	1.3	1.5	1.8
139	Thailand	27.1	1.9	14.0	10.2	0.0	0.0	1.0
140	Algeria	26.5	3.7	0.0	9.9	8.9	1.0	3.1
141	Cambodia	25.7	5.9	7.3	4.7	0.0	0.0	7.8
142	Lesotho	24.7	2.9	5.1	9.4	0.6	0.1	6.6
143	Haiti	24.5	5.1	5.7	10.1	0.2	0.5	2.8
144	Pakistan	23.8	10.7	0.0	8.7	1.3	2.9	0.2
145	Gambia	23.7	1.9	0.8	15.5	0.3	0.5	4.7
146	Solomon Islands	23.5	2.0	4.7	9.7	0.1	0.0	7.2
147	Liberia	23.3	1.6	7.3	5.5	3.3	0.2	5.4
148	Senegal	22.3	7.1	1.5	8.3	3.0	1.3	1.3
149	Myanmar	22.2	3.2	6.6	12.1	0.0	0.2	0.1
150	Syria	21.7	2.2	0.1	5.3	11.2	0.6	2.2
151	Indonesia	21.1	3.2	0.7	16.0	0.2	0.3	0.7
152	Ghana	21.0	2.2	1.4	9.4	1.0	1.3	5.8
153	Zambia	21.0	11.8	1.4	3.4	0.1	1.0	3.3
154	Angola	21.0	4.2	7.5	7.4	0.2	0.6	1.1
155	Bhutan	20.0	8.6	2.5	5.3	0.0	0.4	3.3
156	Guinea	19.8	7.8	0.4	5.9	1.2	1.3	3.2
157	Côte d’Ivoire	18.3	3.0	4.3	3.8	0.5	0.4	6.2
158	Yemen	17.1	2.4	0.0	8.1	1.4	3.0	2.3
159	Nepal	17.0	4.7	1.4	6.8	0.1	3.5	0.4
160	Cameroon	17.0	5.0	2.1	4.2	0.7	1.2	3.8
161	Guinea-Bissau	16.9	4.4	5.9	3.9	0.7	0.5	1.4
162	Sierra Leone	14.2	2.6	0.6	6.5	0.3	0.3	3.8
163	Tanzania	14.1	9.1	0.8	1.6	0.5	1.5	0.6
164	Uganda	12.8	5.6	3.2	1.9	0.1	0.9	1.1
165	Sri Lanka	12.4	1.5	0.0	10.2	0.0	0.1	0.6
166	Kenya	12.1	5.0	0.7	1.7	1.0	1.4	2.2
167	Mozambique	11.2	0.9	3.6	6.1	0.0	0.1	0.4
168	Niger	9.6	3.2	0.1	1.0	0.8	1.2	3.4
169	Afghanistan	9.0	2.0	0.0	0.8	3.0	1.4	1.7
170	Nigeria	8.8	1.6	1.8	1.4	0.8	1.4	1.7
171	India	8.7	2.7	0.3	3.5	0.9	1.3	0.2
172	Ethiopia	8.6	4.1	0.0	0.5	1.2	1.4	1.4
173	Rwanda	8.5	3.1	0.7	0.9	0.2	0.9	2.7
174	Madagascar	6.0	1.1	1.1	2.9	0.1	0.2	0.7
175	Bangladesh	5.4	1.4	0.0	1.7	0.0	1.9	0.3
176	Democratic Republic of the Congo	4.9	0.5	0.8	1.4	0.0	0.2	2.0

kg per person per year · Source: FAO, food balances 2023

Source and methodology

The data comes from the FAO food balances for 2023. Rather than tracking what people eat, the FAO builds a food balance for each country: production plus imports, adjusted for changes in stocks, minus exports, animal feed, non-food uses and losses. What remains is the quantity available for human food, which is then divided by the population.

These figures measure meat available per person, not meat actually eaten: household and restaurant waste is not deducted, so real intake is usually a little lower. Fish and seafood are not included. The calculation method is explained in detail in our article.