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Notes: These statistics (for chicken meat) are extracted from ABS Catalogue No 7215.0 - "Livestock Products, Australia", and exclude production from the Northern Territory, the ACT (from 1982/83) and Tasmania (after 1986/87). From 1988/89 statistics for poultry and forecasts have been extracted from the ABARE publications “Agriculture and Resources Quarterly" and "Australian Commodities" (the most recent of which being June 2010 release of "Australian Commodities").
Chicken meat production figures for 2009/10 - 2014/15 are derived from ABARE poultry meat production estimates x 95.16% (average % that chicken meat represented of total poultry production over the past five years (2004/05 - 2008/09))
Chicken slaughter figures for 2009/10 - 2014/15 are derived from the estimated chicken meat production / average dressed weight of 1.762 kg/chicken (average dressed weight over the past four years (2005/06 - 2008/09)
Meat Produced is shown in dressed weight of whole birds, pieces and giblets. Chicken: includes broilers, roasters and fryers.
Other Poultry: includes other fowl (hens, roosters etc.), ducks, drakes and turkeys.
The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) forecasted the poultry meat industry’s gross value of production to be A$ 1.73 billion in 2008/09. The ACMF estimates industry’s retail value at A$ 4.5 billion.
ABARE also provides an industry overview that you may find useful. To access the overview, click here (Reference: poultry industry overview (ABARE, 2006))
Greater diversity in the range of chicken products available
Improved quality and consistency of chicken meat products
Improved price competitiveness of chicken compared to other meat
Targeted, strongly focused product marketing
Price of Chicken Meat over Time
The true value that represents chicken today is clearly illustrated by the graph below that compares the price in 2008 Dollars.
Chicken meat has continued to get cheaper compared to other meat.
Two factors have driven this change.
Increasingly automated poultry plants.
Improvements in how efficiently chickens convert feed into meat. These gains are due to improved breeds of chicken more suited to meat production, better nutrition, improved health management and better husbandry strategies
No hormones are added to chickens in Australia
The price competitiveness of chicken, increasing product diversity, improved quality, better consistency and targeted marketing, have made chicken one of Australia’s favorite meats.
For information of the geographical distribution across Australia's six States, click here.
For information on the annual per capita consumption of chicken meat in 24 countries, click here.
