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Country: Australia
Consumption per capita per year: 145.6 kg
Country: Samoa
Consumption per capita per year: 135.9 kg
Country: Portugal
Consumption per capita per year: 150.2 kg
Country: Spain
Consumption per capita per year: 142.7 kg
Country: Nauru
Consumption per capita per year: 156.2 kg
Country: Antigua and Barbuda
Consumption per capita per year: 136.2 kg
Country: Macao
Consumption per capita per year: 176.9 kg
Country: United States
Consumption per capita per year: 151.4 kg
Country: Antigua and Barbuda
Consumption per capita per year: 54.1 kg
Country: Hong Kong
Consumption per capita per year: 202.1 kg
Sources: (Visual Capitalist)
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Country: Malaysia
Consumption per capita per year: 54.7 kg
Country: South Korea
Consumption per capita per year: 55.3 kg
Country: Iceland
Consumption per capita per year: 180.9 kg
Country: Kiribati
Consumption per capita per year: 73.2 kg
Country: Portugal
Consumption per capita per year: 60 kg
Country: Seychelles
Consumption per capita per year: 56.8 kg
Country: Hong Kong
Consumption per capita per year: 65.8 kg
Country: Maldives
Consumption per capita per year: 83.1 kg
Country: Macao
Consumption per capita per year: 73.2 kg
Country: Iceland
Consumption per capita per year: 90.6 kg
Country: Bahamas
Consumption per capita per year: 54.4 kg
Country: Panama
Consumption per capita per year: 55.4 kg
Country: Hong Kong
Consumption per capita per year: 55.5 kg
Country: Antigua and Barbuda
Consumption per capita per year: 61.8 kg
Country: Saint Lucia
Consumption per capita per year: 57.6 kg
Country: Trinidad and Tobago
Consumption per capita per year: 63.1 kg
Country: United States
Consumption per capita per year: 58.7 kg
Country: Israel
Consumption per capita per year: 68.9 kg
Country: Samoa
Consumption per capita per year: 65.7 kg
Country: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Consumption per capita per year: 74.7 kg
Country: Qatar
Consumption per capita per year: 11.6 kg
Country: Mauritania
Consumption per capita per year: 12.2 kg
Country: New Zealand
Consumption per capita per year: 12.9 kg
Country: Oman
Consumption per capita per year: 11.2 kg
Country: Kuwait
Consumption per capita per year: 14.1 kg
Country: Chad
Consumption per capita per year: 17.9 kg
Country: Iceland
Consumption per capita per year: 21.8 kg
Country: Bahrain
Consumption per capita per year: 21.4 kg
Country: Turkmenistan
Consumption per capita per year: 20.8 kg
Country: Mongolia
Consumption per capita per year: 66.3 kg
Country: Germany
Consumption per capita per year: 44 kg
Country: Macao
Consumption per capita per year: 46.9 kg
Country: Hungary
Consumption per capita per year: 48.3 kg
Country: Croatia
Consumption per capita per year: 49.6 kg
Country: Austria
Consumption per capita per year: 45 kg
Country: Poland
Consumption per capita per year: 55 kg
Country: Lithuania
Consumption per capita per year: 50.7 kg
Country: Spain
Consumption per capita per year: 52.6 kg
Country: Hong Kong
Consumption per capita per year: 55.2 kg
Country: Kazakhstan
Consumption per capita per year: 26.6 kg
Country: Canada
Consumption per capita per year: 27.5 kg
Country: Brazil
Consumption per capita per year: 35.4 kg
Country: Israel
Consumption per capita per year: 27.2 kg
Country: Uzbekistan
Consumption per capita per year: 31.6 kg
Country: Chad
Consumption per capita per year: 27.5 kg
Country: Australia
Consumption per capita per year: 37 kg
Country: United States
Consumption per capita per year: 37.9 kg
Country: Argentina
Consumption per capita per year: 46.9 kg
Country: Zimbabwe
Consumption per capita per year: 42.3 kg
Country: Czech Republic
Consumption per capita per year: 44.5 kg
Meat is always on the menu in most parts of the world, and Visual Capitalist have mapped out the type of meat and quantity consumed in each country, using data from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization. We've gathered the top 10 countries in the different meat categories: bovine, pork, mutton, poultry, fish, and seafood, as well as the annual consumption calculated per capita in kilograms (kg). You might ask: is fish meat? Well, since meat is normally defined as the flesh of any animal, it does include fish and other seafood.
Now, click on to find out how much meat these countries consume annually.
The most consumed meats by country
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Meat is always on the menu in most parts of the world, and Visual Capitalist have mapped out the type of meat and quantity consumed in each country, using data from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization. We've gathered the top 10 countries in the different meat categories: bovine, pork, mutton, poultry, fish and seafood, as well as the annual consumption calculated per capita in kilograms (kg). You might ask: is fish meat? Well, since meat is normally defined as the flesh of any animal, it does include fish and other seafood.
Now, click on to find out how much meat these countries consume annually.