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Cattle Meat Consumption Per Capita rose 28.1% to 1.96 kg in Lesotho in 2020

Cattle Meat Consumption Per Capita (kg), 2020
Food & Drink | Lesotho | September 4, 2023
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Cattle meat consumption per capita rose 28.1% to 1.96 kg in Lesotho in 2020, according to Faostat.

Historically, cattle meat consumption per capita in Lesotho reached an all time high of 7.69 kg in 2016 and an all time low of 1.53 kg in 2019. When compared to Lesotho's main peers, cattle meat consumption per capita in Botswana amounted to 10.2 kg, 17.2 kg in South Africa, 16.1 kg in Swaziland and 42.3 kg in Zimbabwe in 2020.

Lesotho has been ranked 145th within the group of 165 countries we follow in terms of cattle meat consumption per capita, 40 places below the position seen 10 years ago.

Cattle Meat Consumption Per Capita Unit 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Botswana kg ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 5.20 6.73 5.72 5.53 5.46
Lesotho kg ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 7.30 7.38 7.69 7.67 7.50
Mozambique kg ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 0.810 0.630 0.690 0.680 0.610
Namibia kg ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 5.79 3.85 4.56 7.60 8.68
South Africa kg 18.4 19.2 19.0 17.5 17.1
Swaziland kg ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 18.8 17.5 17.3 17.6 17.7
Zambia kg ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 11.8 11.8 10.6 11.9 12.0
Zimbabwe kg ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 40.7 45.2 45.0 42.9 42.7