PER CAPITA BROILER MEAT CONSUMPTION

    Selected Countries
  (Kilograms per person)

                               1992     1993     1994     1995 (p) 1996 (f) 1997

NORTH AMERICA
  Canada                       23.1     24.0     26.0     25.8     26.2     26.6
  Mexico                       16.0     16.0     16.1     16.3     16.2     17.0
  United States                33.9     34.7     35.5     35.4     36.4     38.1

SOUTH AMERICA
  Argentina                    18.4     19.9     21.1     20.6     19.0     18.8
  Brazil                       16.1     17.4     18.5     22.6     21.6     22.1
  Venezuela                    15.5     15.7     16.8     17.6     16.4     16.5

EUROPEAN UNION
  Belgium-Luxembourg           11.5     11.7     12.3     13.8     14.6     14.7
  Denmark                      10.6     11.8     11.9     11.5     11.6     11.8
  France                       11.1     10.6     11.4     11.1     11.4     12.0
  Germany                       6.9      6.7      7.2      7.0      7.1      7.1
  Greece                       14.5     14.8     15.0     15.4     15.6     15.6
  Ireland                      16.3     16.8     17.1     17.4     18.5     18.6
  Italy                        11.3     11.3     11.4     11.3     11.7     11.6
  Netherlands                  13.7     13.9     14.8     15.2     15.9     16.0
  Portugal                     20.1     20.3     20.9     18.4     19.8     19.8
  Spain                        21.8     20.9     21.9     22.0     22.6     22.7
  United Kingdom               18.3     18.3     18.4     18.4     19.2     19.5

EASTERN EUROPE
  Poland                        5.0      5.6      5.6      5.4      5.5      5.7
  Hungary                      14.3     15.4     17.4     18.3     16.3     16.8

FORMER SOVIET UNION
  Russia                        5.6      4.6      6.2      7.7      8.2      8.3

MIDDLE EAST
  Israel                       27.1     32.4     29.9     30.5     31.7     32.5
  Saudi Arabia                 29.8     31.1     30.3     30.4     30.9     31.5

AFRICA
  Egypt                         4.0      4.5      4.9      5.3      5.4      5.5
  Republic of South Africa     15.1     14.4     14.6     16.0     16.5     16.8

ASIA
  China (PRC)                   2.0      2.5      2.9      3.3      3.9      4.5
  Hong Kong                    36.1     35.8     38.6     37.2     40.9     40.5
  Japan                        13.2     13.0     12.8     13.4     13.3     13.3
  Singapore                    28.2     29.0     31.2     30.6     30.3     30.0
  Thailand                      9.0      8.7      9.2     10.3     11.2     12.1

OCEANIA
  Australia                    23.2     23.3     24.6     24.3     24.3     24.2

(p)-preliminary    (f)-forecast

SOURCE: Counselor and attache reports, official statistics, 
and inter-agency analysis

Foreign Agricultural Service	
Commodity and Marketing Programs	
Dairy, Livestock, and Poultry Division	

Last modified: Thursday, April 06, 2000