
German pig slaughterhouses processed 44.6 million pigs in 2024 , up 1.2% or 531,300 pigs compared to the previous year. The number of pigs raised domestically and slaughtered increased by 1.6% to 43.3 million pigs. However, the number of imported pigs slaughtered in German slaughterhouses fell by 9.2% to 1.3 million pigs.
In total, German slaughterhouses will produce around 4.3 million tonnes of pork in 2024, up 1.9% or 80,500 tonnes more than in 2023. However, this figure is 1.3 million tonnes less than in the record year 2016, i.e. down almost 25%.