Taiwan’s Cattle Industry

Taiwan — Cattle Industry

Population

Baseline: Unavailable; Latest: Unavailable

Not in World Bank population; population blank with note (official source: DGBAS Taiwan)

World Bank (SP.POP.TOTL)

Cattle inventory

1990: 138309; 2024: 155741 An

FAOSTAT (Production: Crops and livestock products)

Beef production

1990: 3581; 2024: 8000 t

FAOSTAT (Production: Crops and livestock products)

Beef imports

1990: 49277.8; 2024: 198928.51 t

FAOSTAT (Trade: Crops and livestock products)

Beef exports

1990: 79.9; 2024: 459.97 t

FAOSTAT (Trade: Crops and livestock products)

Beef slaughtered

1990: 20931; 2024: 39898 An

FAOSTAT (Production: Crops and livestock products)

Beef offtake rate

1991: 15; 2024: 25.6 %

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: 5470506 tonnes; 2024: 4949071.56 tonnes

Wheat

1991: 859512 tonnes; 2024: 1495861.34 tonnes

Barley

1991: 219595 tonnes; 2024: 25619.85 tonnes

Sorghum

1991: 65505 tonnes; 2024: 59832.02 tonnes

Oats

1991: 3258 tonnes; 2024: 2.04 tonnes

Soya beans

1991: 1958639 tonnes; 2024: 2465823.32 tonnes

Cake of soya beans

1991: 1153 tonnes; 2024: 70145.95 tonnes