The FAO Meat Price Index increased 0.6% to 128 points in August 2025, reaching a new record high, driven by continuing higher bovine and ovine meat prices, which outweighed largely stable pig meat quotations and lower poultry meat prices. International bovine meat prices reached a new record high, underpinned by strong demand from the US, which boosted Australian quotations, and firm import demand from China, which kept Brazilian export prices firm despite reduced sales to the US following the imposition of additional tariffs. source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Meat Price Index in World averaged 87.10 Index Points from 1990 until 2025, reaching an all time high of 128.00 Index Points in August of 2025 and a record low of 52.30 Index Points in December of 2002. This page includes a chart with historical data for World Meat Price Index. Meat Price Index - values, historical data and charts - was last updated on September of 2025.
The Meat Price Index is computed from average export unit values/market prices of bovine, pig meat, poultry meat and ovine meat, weighted by world average export trade shares for 2002–2004. The calculation includes two poultry, three bovine, three pig, and one ovine meat products, with 27 quotations in total used in the calculation.
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Actual |
Previous |
Highest |
Lowest |
Dates |
Unit |
Frequency |
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128.00 |
127.20 |
128.00 |
52.30 |
1990 - 2025 |
Index Points |
Monthly |
2014-2016=100
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