Meat preferences vary a lot across different countries

America’s most popular type of meat is chicken. In Argentina, it’s beef. And in Japan, it’s seafood.

There are large differences in the popularity of meat types across the world.

In the chart, you can see the share of supply that comes from different types of meat: poultry, beef, pork, sheep and goat, and fish and seafood. I’ve picked just a selection of countries that highlight some of the variation across the world.

Of course, countries also eat very different amounts of meat; this chart focuses on the relative quantities in national diets.

This data comes from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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