Largest producer of beef (country)
- 纪录保持者
- United States of America
- 纪录成绩
- 12,353,000 tonne(s)/metric ton(s)
- 地点
- Not Applicable
- 打破时间
- 2020
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the world's largest producer of beef is the United States. The 2021 edition of the FAO's Food Outlook report estimated that the United States produced 12,353,000 tonnes of bovine meat in 2020.
The United States is also the world's largest market for beef, consuming roughly 12.39 million tonnes every year. Almost all of its annual output is sold on the domestic market. Only 1.39 million tonnes of beef was exported in 2020, and that was offset by 1.45 million tonnes of imported beef.