24,520,394 animals slaughtered in September

Agriculture & fishery
24,520,394 animals slaughtered in September

72,479 bovine animals were slaughtered in September 2019. The number of slaughtered pigs was 882,621 animals, and the number of slaughtered chickens amounted to 23,483,145 units.

In 2018, 26.51 million animals were slaughtered on a monthly basis. That is what emerged from the slaughtering figures for 2018 published by Statbel, the Belgian statistical office. In terms of weight, pigs account for the largest share (59 %, 936,000 pigs on a monthly basis). Chickens register the highest numbers, with 25.4 million chickens slaughtered per month. More...