Fleischproduktion2021

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  "chart": {
    "title": "Meat production",
    "subtitle": "Expressed in tonnes. Includes cattle, poultry, sheep/mutton, goat, pigmeat, and wild game.",
    "note": "Figures are given in terms of dressed carcass weight, excluding offal and slaughter fats. ",
    "citation": "Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025)",
    "originalChartUrl": "https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/meat-production-tonnes",
    "selection": [
      "United States",
      "China",
      "India",
      "Brazil",
      "Russia"
    ]
  },
  "columns": {
    "Meat, total | 00001765 || Production | 005510 || tonnes": {
      "titleShort": "Total meat production",
      "titleLong": "Total meat production - UN FAO",
      "shortUnit": "t",
      "unit": "tonnes",
      "timespan": "1961-2024",
      "type": "Numeric",
      "owidVariableId": 1198743,
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      "lastUpdated": "2026-02-25",
      "nextUpdate": "2027-02-25",
      "citationShort": "Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data",
      "citationLong": "Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Total meat production – UN FAO” [dataset]. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, “Production: Crops and livestock products” [original data].",
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    }
  },
  "dateDownloaded": "2026-10-09"
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