BRAZIL: Pigs slaughtered (number of heads)
Swine slaughter in Brazil
is a key indicator for assessing trends in
beef supply and developments in the international market.
This page provides timely monthly data on cattle slaughter, expressed as number of heads, based on official statistics from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE – Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística), with a breakdown by animal category.
The data refer to pigs, defined as male or female animals of any age, regardless of their production purpose.
| Total Pigs slaughtered number of heads | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Month of slaughter |
2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (p) |
± % su mese prec. |
± % su 2025 |
|
| January | 4.730.557 | 4.832.542 | 4.928.680 | 5.059.648 | +0.07% | +2.66% | |
| February | 4.384.550 | 4.680.328 | 4.660.349 | 4.861.287 | -3.92% | +4.31% | |
| March | 5.060.714 | 4.581.312 | 4.888.190 | 5.350.847 | +10.07% | +9.46% | |
| April | 4.285.568 | 4.969.652 | 4.938.081 | - | |||
| May | 5.020.599 | 4.916.920 | 5.178.955 | - | |||
| June | 4.902.486 | 4.739.559 | 4.977.454 | - | |||
| July | 4.844.208 | 5.235.093 | 5.527.866 | - | |||
| August | 5.150.189 | 5.069.210 | 5.125.925 | - | |||
| September | 4.645.746 | 4.709.597 | 5.181.305 | - | |||
| October | 4.775.132 | 5.105.320 | 5.387.973 | - | |||
| November | 4.652.739 | 4.639.093 | 4.846.639 | - | |||
| December | 4.720.459 | 4.700.083 | 5.056.311 | - | |||
| Jan-Mar | 14.175.821 | 14.094.182 | 14.477.219 | 15.271.782 | |||
| Var % ¹ | +3.35% | -0.58% | +2.72% | +5.49% | |||
| Tot. Year | 57.172.947 | 58.178.709 | 60.697.728 | ||||
| Var % ¹ | +1.25% | +1.76% | +4.33% | ||||
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Source: Processed by CLAL on IBGE data (p): Data for the current year should be considered preliminary until the publication of the results for the first quarter of the following year. 1) change from the same period of previous year The published data are collected from establishments subject to federal, state, or municipal sanitary inspection. |
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Rolling year: for each month, the displayed slaughter figures include the slaughterings recorded in that month plus those of the previous 11 months. This approach considers a rolling 12-month window, allowing the underlying trend to be identified while removing the effect of seasonality.
