Minas Gerais and Mato Grosso do Sul also appear in the top five nationally, tied with around 22 million, followed by Goiás (20 million) and Pará (16 million).Īccording to Beef Brazil, beef cattle farming in the country handled just over R$900 million in 2021.

Mato Grosso has the largest herd in the country, almost 28 million head. “In 2021, the Brazilian herd was estimated at 196.47 million heads, with a slaughter of 39.14 million heads”, informs the report. In all, the amount slaughtered in 2021 is equivalent to about 20% of the Brazilian herd. And the value generated with consumption in the domestic market was even greater: R$ 140 billion. The data includes the buffalo herd.Īccording to the document, shipments of beef from Brazil reached sales of almost R$ 50 billion last year. The count appears in the Beef Report, a report published by the Brazilian Association of Meat Exporting Industries (Abiec) in June. About 2.5 million of them left Brazil, which places the country as the largest exporter of beef on the planet. Trade between countries moved around 15 million tons in carcass equivalent of meat in 2021. *Data from Comex Stat, carried out from January to December 2021. According to the report published by ABIEC – Brazilian Association of Meat Exporting Industries, Brazil is the largest beef exporter on the planet! But to how many countries does Brazil export? In the first half of 2022 alone, our country exported beef to 132 countries.īelow is a list of the top 5 export destinations and the amount collected:

Largest exporter of beef