Consumption of Meat over the World - PDF

Study of Consumption of Meat over the World: A real time
analytics
Introduction
World population growing continuously, so finding the solution for feeding the
growing world population becomes the major concern for many academics, entrepreneurs and
food and agricultural organizations. There are foods that are highly demanded such as rice,
wheat, fruits, milk etc. Meat is one the most demanded food for human feed. It is little bit
used for feeding the animal mostly for cat family animals. There are following most
demanded meat for human things as
i) Meat
ii) Bovine Meat
iii) Meat, Aquatic Mammals
iv) Meat, Other
v) Mutton & Goat Meat
vi) Pigmeat
vii) Poultry Meat.
Meat is healthier food for the great source of protein. According to Delgado
(2003), “The amount of meat consumed in developing countries over the past has
grown three times as much as it did in the developed countries”. Due to the rapid
economic growth and globalization of food industry, amount of meat production and
consumption in Eastern countries has grown exponentially (Nam, Jo & Lee (2010)).
Resurreccion (2004) claim that factors like changes in distribution of meat, price and
health concern are the important factor for the changing demand of meat. Chizzolini
et. al. (1999) suggest that fresh meat product has low fat and cholesterol.

Research Question:
We have mainly focused on the following question:
i) What is total consumption of meat products (food)?
ii) What is total consumption of meat products (feed)?
iii) What are the main meat production for food and feed?
iv) Which countries or territory consume more meat products, meat, pig meat and poultry
meat?
v) What is consumption of meat products per capita (in Kg) for the year 2013?
vi) What is consumption of meat products according to the population density for the
year 2013?
vii) What is total meat products consumption for the 2050?
Data Collection:
Data is collected from The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
(Data Collection Website: http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#home). This organization gives the
free access for the data of 245 countries and territories starting from 1961 to 2013. This data
includes 115 items for feed and food whichever applicable. Feed and food can refereed as
follows:
Feed : Quantity of feed available for feeding the animals and
Food : Total amount of food available for human.
We have also used population total and population density collected from
http://www.worldbank.org/. We consider meat product for our study. Following Table 1
shows the total consumption of meat feed for some selected years. From Table 1, we claim

say that meat and meat other are the important item in the meat product for feeding the
animal. There is 133% increase in the consumption of meat (feed) from 1961 to 2013.
Table 1: Total consumption of meat (feed) (1000 tonnes) for some selected years
Item 1961 1981 2001 2011 2013
Bovine Meat 12 8 9
Meat 36 23 61 75 84
Meat, Other 36 23 43 49 57
Mutton & Goat Meat 0 0 7 17 18
Poultry Meat 0 0 0 0 0
Total 72 46 123 149 168
In the Table 2, we reported the total consumption of meat product (food) for some
selected years. We observed that meat, pig meat and poultry meat is main source of
consumption of meat product according to year 2013. There is 412% increase in the
consumption of meat (feed) from 1961 to 2013. Meat, Pig meat and Poultry constitute the
more consumption than other item.
Table 2: Total consumption of meat (food) (1000 tonnes) for some selected years
Item 1961 1981 2001 2011 2013
Bovine Meat 24844 38487 56082 64050 65216
Meat 58966 115804 224688 288411 302411
Meat, Aquatic
Mammals 0 0 0 0 0
Meat, Other 2208 2903 5008 6257 6823
Mutton & Goat Meat 4594 5841 10371 12399 13389
Pigmeat 19599 45052 84876 106171 112100
Poultry Meat 7710 23517 68340 99536 104871
Total 117921 231604 449365 576824 604810
We consider meat and meat product for feed and meat, pig meat and poultry meat for
feed. In the following Table 3, we reported first 10 countries for consumption of meat (food)
for some selected years. We can observed that there is high consumption and percentage

increment in consumption of meat (food) for China, mainland. Population is the main reason
behind the consumption in China. United States of America is at the second place whereas
Brazil at third place for the consumption for meat (food).
Table 3: First 10 countries of consumption of meat (food) (1000 tonnes)
according to year 2013
Area 1961 1981 2001 2011 2013
China, mainland 2196 14010 56361
7779
2 84591
United States of
America
1678
0 25216 34728
3662
1 36849
Brazil 2061 5015 13516
1831
0 19552
Russian Federation 6663 9503 10687
Mexico 970 2753 5771 7277 7613
Germany 4719 7535 6798 7288 7109
Japan 712 3575 5641 6211 6287
France 3565 5331 6054 5678 5578
United Kingdom 3674 3915 4662 5168 5165
Italy 1545 4249 5155 5262 5125
We reported first 10 countries for consumption of pig meat (food) for some selected
years in Table 4. We can observed that there is high percentage increment in consumption of
pig meat (food) for China, mainland. United States of America is at the second place whereas
Germany at third place for the consumption for pig meat (food).
Table 4: First 10 countries of consumption of pig meat (food) (1000 tonnes)
according to year 2013
Area 1961 1981 2001 2011 2013
China, mainland 1348 11750 35819 48750 53247
United States of America 5241 7301 8384 8442 8847
Germany 2755 4803 4285 4433 4286
Russian Federation 1905 3252 3665
Viet Nam 250 396 1465 3093 3209
Japan 202 1558 2300 2611 2621
Brazil 526 967 2297 2475 2525
Italy 393 1419 2276 2436 2457

Spain 245 1231 2618 2247 2296
France 1202 1935 2227 2128 2125
In Table 5, we reported the consumption of meat product (feed) (1000 tonnes) for
some selected years for all the countries or territory where it is consumed and reported. From
the data provided in Table 5, we can see that United States of America and Canada consume
more meat product for feeding the animal. We can see that poultry meat is consumed in
Australia as a feed for animals. (0 indicates that it is less than 1000 tonnes).
Table 5: Consumption of meat product (feed) (1000 tonnes) for some selected
years for all the countries or territory
Item Area 1961 1981 2001 2011 2013
Bovine Meat
Georgia 0 0 0
Kazakhstan 5 8 9
Ukraine 7 0 0
Meat
Austria 0 0 0 0 0
Canada 8 3 18 13 16
Chile 2 4 5 4 4
China, mainland 0 1 1 1 1
Georgia 0 0 0
Greece 1 0 0 0 0
Haiti 1 1 1 1 1
Honduras 0 0 1 1 1
Italy 1 0 1 0 1
Kazakhstan 5 8 9
South Africa 2 1 1 2 2
Spain 2 1 0 0 0
Ukraine 7 0 0
United States of America 19 12 21 45 49
Meat, Other
Canada 8 3 17 11 14
Chile 2 4 5 4 4
China, mainland 0 1 1 1 1
Greece 1 0 0 0 0
Haiti 1 1 1 1 1
Honduras 0 0 1 1 1
Italy 1 0 1 0 1
South Africa 2 1 1 2 2
Spain 2 1 0 0 0
United States of America 19 12 16 29 33
Mutton & Goat Meat Canada 0 0 1 2 2
United States of America 0 0 6 15 16
Poultry Meat Austria 0 0 0 0 0
Total 72 46 123 149 168

In the following graphical representation, we have presented the meat, pig meat and
poultry meat area wise obtained from IBM Watson Analytics. This dashboard are useful for
viewing the consumption of meat product over the world.
Figure 1: Consumption of meat (food) for different region of world.
(Source: IBM Watson Analytics)
Figure 2: Consumption of pig meat (food) for different region of world.
(Source: IBM Watson Analytics)