{
  "sources": [],
  "title": "FAOSTAT: Crops and livestock products — producing animals / slaughtered",
  "url": "https://thebalanceofhealth.com/sources/fao-faostat-livestock-primary-production",
  "publisher": "The Balance of Health",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "record": {
    "status": "reviewed",
    "id": "src-fao-faostat-livestock",
    "slug": "fao-faostat-livestock-primary-production",
    "title": "FAOSTAT: Crops and livestock products — producing animals / slaughtered",
    "authors": [
      "Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations"
    ],
    "organisation": "FAO",
    "publication": "FAOSTAT database",
    "year": 2024,
    "url": "https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL",
    "sourceType": "government-statistics",
    "studyType": "census",
    "topicIds": [
      "scale"
    ],
    "pillarIds": [
      "animals"
    ],
    "geography": "Global, by country",
    "keyFindings": [
      "Around 85 billion land animals are slaughtered for meat each year, the large majority of them chickens."
    ],
    "supportsClaimIds": [
      "claim-animals-slaughtered-annually"
    ],
    "challengesClaimIds": [],
    "limitations": [
      "Relies on national reporting of varying quality; fish are counted by weight, not by individual animal."
    ],
    "quality": "strong",
    "qualityRationale": "Official international statistics, the standard reference for this figure."
  }
}