Yearly number of animals slaughtered for meat, World, 1961 to 2023

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• Antibiotic use in livestock in Europe per kilogram of meat
• Aquaculture production
• Beef production
• Capture fishery production
• Cattle meat per animal
• Chicken meat production
• Chicken meat yield per animal
• Daily meat consumption per person
• Dietary land use vs. beef consumption
• Egg production
• Egg production by system in the United Kingdom
• Eggs per bird
• Energy efficiency of meat and dairy production
• Environmental footprints of dairy and plant-based milks
• Feed required to produce one kilogram of meat or dairy product
• Fish and seafood consumption per capita
• Fish and seafood consumption vs. GDP per capita
• Fish and seafood production
• Fish catch by fishing sector
• Fish discards
• Fish landings and discards
• Global antibiotic use in livestock under reduction scenarios
• Global fishery catch by sector
• Global meat consumption
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• Global meat production
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• Livestock counts
• Meat production
• Meat production by livestock type
• Meat supply per person
• Meat supply vs. GDP per capita
• Milk supply per person
• Milk per animal
• Milk production
• Number of cattle
• Number of pigs
• Number of poultry birds
• Per capita egg consumption
• Per capita meat consumption by typeStacked area chart
• Per capita meat consumption by typeStacked bar chart
• Per capita meat consumption in the EU28 OECD, 1990-2018
• Per capita meat consumption in the United States
• Pig meat per animal
• Pig meat production
• Poultry meat per animal
• Poultry production
• Protein efficiency of meat and dairy production
• Protein supply from animal foods vs. GDP per capita
• Seafood and fish production
• Seafood production: wild fish catch vs. aquacultureLine chart
• Seafood production: wild fish catch vs. aquacultureStacked area chart
• Share of cereals allocated to animal feed
• Share of egg production that is cage-free