Table 1. Impact of COVID 19 on price fluctuations of different meat types in different regions of the world

Region/country Impact timing Meat prices fluctuations Meat type References
USA March 6–April 10, 2020 ↑39.1% Beef cuts (chuck, round, brisket, and loin strips) (Peel, 2021)
↓42% Beef primal cuts (rib eye and tenderloin)
April 10–May 8, 2020 ↑150% Beef cuts (chuck, round, brisket, and loin strips)
May, 2020–June, 2020 ↑26.2% Fresh beef prices
South Carolina, USA May, 2020 ↑21.7% All meat categories (Richards and Vassalos, 2020)
↑17.7% Pork
↑10.5% Chicken
↑100% Ground beef
USA March, 2020 ↑21.4% ($255/cwt in March, 2020 and $210/cwt in February, 2020) Wholesale beef (Lusk et al., 2020)
May 15, 2020 ↑118.5% ($459/cwt on May 15, 2020) Wholesale beef
↑388% ($44/cwt on May 15, 2020 and $9/cwt in February, 2020) Wholesale pork
Canada April, 2020 ↓40% Pork (Weersink et al., 2021)
September, 2020 ↑40% Pork
European countries March–April 2020 ↑Prices All meat categories (Akter, 2020)
May, 2020 Prices stabilized All meat categories
China (Beijing, Shandong, and Hubei) January–April 2020 ↑Prices All meat categories (Yu et al., 2020)
Indonesia June–July 2020 ↓5.93% (Rp.930/kg) Chicken meat (Surni et al., 2020)
Malang Regency, Indonesia October, 2020 ↓Prices Chicken meat (Nurahmi and Zalizar, 2021)
Latvia March–June 2020 ↓Prices All meat categories (Grinberga-Zalite et al., 2021)
Worldwide January–December 2020 ↓7%–18% (pork 17.6%, beef 10.4%, sheep 7.3%, poultry 7.0%) All meat categories (Elleby et al., 2020)
Adapted from Ijaz et al. (2021) with CC-BY.