25,155,221 animals slaughtered in August
70,386 bovine animals were slaughtered in September 2018. The number of slaughtered pigs was 901,016 animals, and the number of slaughtered chickens amounted to 24,099,091 units.
In 2017, 26.12 million animals on average were slaughtered on a monthly basis. That is what emerged from the slaughtering figures for 2017 published by Statbel, the Belgian statistical office. In terms of weight, pigs account for the largest share (59 %, 912,000 pigs on average on a monthly basis). Chickens register the highest numbers, with an average of 25 million chickens slaughtered per month. More...
Animal slaughtering per animal type - last year
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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
