The Middle East continues to be the largest market for Ethiopian meat exports

Ethiopia has the largest livestock population of any African country. Livestock is produced in both the highly productive, high rainfall highlands areas and vast lowland areas of the country. As a result between from a base of $18.5 million in meat export in 2005/06, the country reached $78.36 million in meat export in 2019. So far the country is exporting meat to the Gulf Region majorly to the United Arab Emirates which accounts for more than 60% of all meat export and seconded by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (37 %) and the rest to Qatar, Oman, Vietnam, and few African countries.