People eat about 250,000,000 tonnes of meat annually worldwide (Table 1).
China consumes more meat than any other country (Table 1), but not on average per person (Table 2).
Each human eats 40 kilograms of meat annually on average worldwide (Table 2).
On average each person in the top ten meat-eating countries eats 123 kilograms of meat per year (Table 2).
New Zealanders are the top meat eaters, on average eating more meat per person than any other country (Table 2).
The amount of meat people eat is growing by about five million tonnes per year (Table 1