Germany: Pork production fell by almost 10% in 2022

This is 8.1% or 0.6 million tons less than a year earlier. Domestic MEAT production has been declining every year since the record 2016 (8.3 million tons), but never as much as in 2022. A total of 51.2 million pigs, cattle, sheep, goats and horses and 701.4 million chickens, turkeys and ducks. were slaughtered in slaughterhouses in 2022.

Pork: slaughter volume decreased by 9.8%

In 2022, 47.0 million pigs were slaughtered, down 9.2% or 4.8 million HEAD compared to the previous year. After a significant decline in 2021, the number of imported pigs slaughtered on German farms increased by 6.5% to just over 1.2 million heads in 2022.

In total, slaughterhouses produced about 4.5 million tons of pork in 2022. This is 9.8% or 485,000 tons less than in 2021. Compared to 2016, about 1.1 million tons less pork was produced in 2022, i.e. a decrease of almost 20%. One of the reasons for the decline in pork production is the reduction in the number of pigs in Germany.