The FAO Meat Price Index declined 1.3% to 123.6 points in December 2025, the lowest level in six months, with prices declining across all meat categories, with those of bovine and poultry meats falling the most. Lower world bovine meat prices reflected weaker quotations in Australia, where seasonally dry conditions prompted herd destocking, increasing cattle availability for slaughter and exerting downward pressure on prices. source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Meat Price Index in World averaged 87.45 Index Points from 1990 until 2025, reaching an all time high of 127.90 Index Points in September of 2025 and a record low of 52.30 Index Points in December of 2002. This page includes a chart with historical data for World Meat Price Index. Meat Price Index - values, historical data and charts - was last updated on February of 2026.
The Meat Price Index is computed from average export unit values/market prices of bovine, pig meat, poultry meat and ovine meat, weighted by world average export trade shares for 2002–2004. The calculation includes two poultry, three bovine, three pig, and one ovine meat products, with 27 quotations in total used in the calculation.
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Actual |
Previous |
Highest |
Lowest |
Dates |
Unit |
Frequency |
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123.60 |
125.30 |
127.90 |
52.30 |
1990 - 2025 |
Index Points |
Monthly |
2014-2016=100
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