Germany's significant decrease in the slaughter of pigs in 2022

Published 2023년 3월 15일

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In 2022, there was a decrease in the slaughter of bovine animals, pigs, and chickens compared to the previous year. Bovine animals slaughtered decreased by 2% with a total of 755,000, pigs decreased by 9% with a total of 10.5 million, and chickens decreased by 2% with a total of 298 million. The trend of decreasing slaughter numbers has been ongoing since 2017 for bovine animals and pigs, and since 2021 for chickens. Provisional figures for January 2023 show a continued downward trend with 62,158 bovine animals, 815,773 pigs, and 24,613,341 chickens slaughtered.

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Significant decrease for pigs and chickens, continued decrease for beef Over the year 2022, 755,000 bovine animals were slaughtered. This is a decrease of 2% compared to the previous year, confirming the downward trend already started in 2017. In addition, 10.5 million pigs were slaughtered. This is a significant decrease of 9% compared to 2021. This decrease brings the number of pigs slaughtered to a level even lower than in the crisis year 2019. 298 million chickens were slaughtered in 2022. We can see here a decrease of 2%. Pigs register the highest weight Chickens register the highest numbers per month If we look at the average number of slaughtered animals per month, we get ...

Source: EuroMeat