Meat Consumption and Wealth #

Our World in Data #

One of the strongest determinants of how much meat people eat is how rich they are. This is at least true when we make cross-country comparisons.

In the scatterplot we see the relationship between per capita meat supply (on the y-axis) and average GDP per capita (on the x-axis). What we see is a strong positive relationship: the richer a country is, the more meat the average person typically eats.

Source: https://ourworldindata.org/meat-production#meat-consumption-tends-to-rise-as-we-get-richer