Editing Beef (section)

===Global statistics===

[[File:Production Of Cattle Meat (2021).svg|thumb|upright=1.6|Production of beef worldwide, by country in 2021]]

In 2018, the United States, Brazil, and China produced the most beef with 12.22 million tons, 9.9 million tons, and 6.46 million tons respectively.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ritchie |first1=Hannah |last2=Roser |first2=Max |title=Meat and Dairy Production |url=https://ourworldindata.org/meat-production |journal=Our World in Data |date=25 August 2017}}</ref> The top 3 beef exporting countries in 2019 were Australia (14.8% of total exports), the United States (13.4% of total exports), and Brazil (12.6% of total exports).<ref>{{cite web |title=Top Beef Exporting Countries |url=http://www.worldstopexports.com/top-beef-exporting-countries/ |website=World's Top Exports |date=1 April 2020}}</ref> Beef production is also important to the [[economies]] of Japan, Argentina, Uruguay, Canada, Paraguay, Mexico, Belarus and Nicaragua.

====Top 5 cattle and beef exporting countries====
As per 2020, Brazil was the largest beef exporter in the world followed by Australia, United States, India (Includes [[Buffalo meat|Carabeef]] only) and Argentina.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ranking Of Countries That Export The Most Beef (USDA)|url=https://beef2live.com/story-world-beef-exports-ranking-countries-0-106903|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151116081842/http://beef2live.com/story-world-beef-exports-ranking-countries-0-106903|url-status=usurped|archive-date=16 November 2015|access-date=7 February 2022|website=beef2live.com|language=en}}</ref> Brazil, Australia, the United States and India accounted for roughly 61% of the world's beef exports.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ranking Of Countries That Export The Most Beef |url=https://www.nationalbeefwire.com/world-beef-exports-ranking-of-countries |access-date=17 May 2022 |website=www.nationalbeefwire.com}}</ref>
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|+Beef exports, including [[buffalo meat]], in metric tons<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://beef2live.com/story-world-beef-exports-ranking-countries-0-106903|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151116081842/http://beef2live.com/story-world-beef-exports-ranking-countries-0-106903|url-status=usurped|archive-date=16 November 2015|title=Ranking Of Countries That Export The Most Beef (USDA)|website=beef2live.com}}</ref>
|-
! Rank 
!Country
!2020 
!% of the World<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ranking Of Countries That Export The Most Beef |url=https://www.nationalbeefwire.com/world-beef-exports-ranking-of-countries |access-date=17 May 2022 |website=www.nationalbeefwire.com}}</ref>!! Country !! 2016!! % of the World
|-
| 1
|Brazil
|2,539,000
|23.50|| Brazil || 1,850,000 || 19.60
|-
| 2 
|Australia
|1,476,000
|13.66|| India || 1,850,000 || 19.60
|-
| 3 
|United States
|1,341,000
|12.41|| Australia || 1,385,000 || 14.67
|-
| 4 
|India
|1,284,000
|11.88|| United States || 1,120,000 || 11.87
|-
| 5 
|Argentina
|819,000
|7.58||New Zealand || 580,000 || 6.14
|}

====Top 10 cattle and beef producing countries====
The world produced 60.57 million metric tons of beef in 2020, down 950K metric tons from the prior year. Major decline for production of beef was from India up to 510k and Australia down to 309K metric tons from the prior year.<ref>{{Cite web|title=World Beef Production By Country|url=https://beef2live.com/story-world-beef-production-country-0-106880|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210727160321/https://beef2live.com/story-world-beef-production-country-0-106880|url-status=usurped|archive-date=27 July 2021|access-date=9 February 2022|website=beef2live.com|language=en}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:right;
|+Beef production (1000 Metric Tons CWE)<ref>Daily Livestock Report – Vol. 8, No. 126/ 30 June 2010</ref>

|-
! Rank !! Country !! 2009!! 2010 !! % Chg
!Country
!2019
!2020
!Change
!%Chg
|-
| 1 || United States || 11,889 || 11,789 || −0.8
|United States
|12,384
|12,379
| -5,000
| -0.04
|-
| 2 || Brazil || 8,935 || 9,300 || 4
|Brazil
|10,200
|10,100
| -100,000
| -1
|-
| 3 || [[EU]]-27 || 7,970 || 7,920 || −0.6
|[[European Union|EU-27]]
|7,878
|7,810
| -68,000
| -0.9
|-
| 4 || China || 5,764 || 5,550 || −4
|China
|6,670
|6,720
|50,000
|0.8
|-
| 5 ||Argentina || 3,400 || 2,800 || −18
|India
|4,270
|3,760
| -510,000
| -12
|-
| 6 || India || 2,610 || 2,760 || 6
|Argentina
|3,125
|3,230
|105,000
|3
|-
| 7 || Australia || 2,100 || 2,075 || −1
|Australia
|2,432
|2,123
| -309,000
| -12
|-
| 8 || Mexico || 1,700 || 1,735 || 2
|Mexico
|2,027
|2,079
|52,000
|3%
|-
| 9 || Russia || 1,285 || 1,260 || −2
|Pakistan
|1,820
|1,820
|NIL
|NIL
|-
| 10|| Pakistan || 1,226 || 1,250 || 2
|Russia
|1,374
|1,378
|4,000
|0.3
|}

====National cattle herds (Per 1000 Head)====
{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:right;
|-
! Rank !! Country !! 2009!! 2010 !! % Chg
|-
| 1 || India || 57,960 || 58,300 || 0.6
|-
| 2 || Brazil || 49,150 || 49,400 || 0.5
|-
| 3 || China || 42,572 || 41,000 || −4
|-
| 4 || United States|| 35,819 || 35,300 || −1.4
|-
| 5 || [[EU]] || 30,400 || 30,150 || −0.8
|-
| 6 || Argentina || 12,300 || 13,200 || 7
|-
| 7 || Australia || 9,213 || 10,158 || 10
|-
| 8 || Russia || 7,010 || 6,970 || −0.6
|-
| 9 || Mexico || 6,775 || 6,797 || 0.3
|-
| 10|| Colombia|| 5,675 || 5,675 || 0.0
|}

====Production losses caused by climate change====
[[File:Liu 2024 climate beef.png|thumb|upright=1.75|Most of the top 10 beef-producing countries are likely to see lower production with greater temperatures (left) and heat stress (right).]]
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