25,717,162 animals slaughtered in December 2022
Agriculture & fishery

Animal slaughters : provisional figures for December
68,348 bovine animals were slaughtered in December 2022. The number of slaughtered pigs was 867,578 animals, and the number of slaughtered chickens amounted to 24,704,325 units.
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Purpose and brief description
Number and slaughtered weight of animals slaughtered in slaughterhouses, approved for consumption.
Population
All slaughterhouses in Belgium
Frequency
Monthly.
Timing of publication
Results available 2 months after the reference period.
Definitions
Number (units): Number of animals slaughtererd in a slaughterhouse and approved for human consumption during that month
Slaughtered weight (kg): Weight of the carcass after slaughter (cold weight), totals per animal species for that month