Belize’s Cattle Industry
Belize — Cattle Industry
Population
1990: 183076; 2025: 422924
Cattle inventory
1990: 61500; 2024: 99019 An
FAOSTAT (Production: Crops and livestock products)
Beef production
1990: 1461; 2024: 2143 t
FAOSTAT (Production: Crops and livestock products)
Beef imports
1990: 1818.5; 2024: 149.92 t
FAOSTAT (Trade: Crops and livestock products)
Beef exports
1990: 744.2; 2024: 129.24 t
FAOSTAT (Trade: Crops and livestock products)
Beef slaughtered
1990: 7870; 2024: 10500 An
FAOSTAT (Production: Crops and livestock products)
Beef offtake rate
1991: 12.9; 2024: 10.6 %
Derived as head slaughtered ÷ total cattle inventory × 100.
Derived from FAOSTAT cattle inventory and slaughter
Selected grain and feed imports
Supplier breakdown from the FAOSTAT Detailed Trade Matrix, latest year with recorded import value per country; feed items summed. Reported by the importing country.
FAOSTAT (Trade: Crops and livestock products)
Maize (corn)
1991: 142 tonnes; 2024: 478 tonnes
Wheat
1991: 15000 tonnes; 2024: 13000 tonnes
Barley
Baseline: Unavailable tonnes; 2022: 0.07 tonnes
Sorghum
Baseline: Unavailable tonnes; 2024: 72 tonnes
Oats
1991: 11 tonnes; 2024: 246.54 tonnes
Soya beans
1991: 0 tonnes; 2023: 11 tonnes
Cake of soya beans
Baseline: Unavailable tonnes; 2022: 2350.42 tonnes