Household meat consumption continues to decrease in 2022

In this period, total food consumption (volume) fell by 8.8%, while expenditure (value) fell by 2.5%. None of the food categories presented a positive balance in volume, and in value only oil, milk and dairy products, eggs and soft drinks were the only product families that ended the period analysed in the green, due to increases in selling prices.
In the case of meat, the volume of consumption fell by 12.4% in this moving year, to 1,848.9 million kg, while the value of these quantities purchased fell by 6.7%, representing, with 14,072.9 million euros, 19.13% of the total spent by Spaniards in their shopping basket for home consumption.
The category's penetration rate is practically 100%, the highest of all animal products and only equalled in the food sector by bread.
These data from the Ministry's panel put per capita consumption at 34.84 kg, which leaves this indicator almost 13% below the figure for 2021. This data will have to be supplemented with higher quality data on consumption and expenditure outside the home to obtain a complete picture of the annual evolution.
In the absence as yet of data on out-of-home consumption, the above figures must be interpreted in the context of the earthquake in purchasing and consumption behaviour during the whole period of the pandemic and confinement, which obviously changed significantly during the whole of 2020, as they were largely restricted to meals at home due to the closure or limitations of the hotel and catering industry, returning to the situation prior to the pandemic and with a certain "rebound" effect, due to the very widespread behaviour of trying to recover the "normality" of outings and consumption outside the home. Thus, after a rise of 9.4% in household consumption in 2020, a decrease of 10.2% was recorded in 2021, but only -0.8% compared to 2019.

Household consumption of meat, fresh, frozen and processed meats
	2021	2022
Total volume (million kg)	2,011.49	1,848.88
Value (million euros)	15,085.18	14,072.93
Per capita consumption (kg)	45.74	39.84
Penetration	99.9%	99.9%
Volume (kg) of total food	7.03%	6.75%
Value (euros) of total food	19.99%	19.13%
Source: MAPA (TAM October 22st)

In any case, with the available data, all categories of meat decreased in the household. Within the fresh meat segment, the decline in the purchase of sheep/goat meat is very significant (-24.7%), followed by beef (-18.1%) and rabbit (-16.4%). On the other hand, fresh chicken (-13.8%) and pork (-10.0%) are the ones showing the smallest decreases.
According to these data from the Ministry, frozen meat lost 19.2% of its volume, while processed meats were the product family that showed the least negative evolution, dropping by -8.6%.

Distribution of meat consumption in the home
	Volume (million kg)		Volume (million kg)
	2021	2022	2021	2022
Pork	453.5	408.3	2.847.3	2,684.4
Beef and veal	224.9	184.2	2.234.5	1,983.9
Sheep/goat meat	56.9	42.9	668.0	562.6
Chicken meat	573.3	494.4	2.607.1	2,499.1
Other meat	262.2	224.7	1.569.8	1,437.7
Processed meat products	540.7	494.4	5.158.5	4,905.2
TOTAL MEATS	2,111.5	1,848.9	15,085.2	14,072.9
Source: MAPA (TAM October 22st)