Average retail price for pork chops in Canada 2015-2022
The Canadian pork market
The volume of pork produced in Canada has steadily increased over the past four years, reaching around 2.3 million metric tons in 2020. More than half of this volume was exported in the same year . Unsurprisingly, the United States was Canada’s biggest pork trading partner in 2019, receiving approximately 319,000 metric tons, followed by China and Japan in second and third places.
Pork consumption
Despite increasing pork production in Canada, consumption is declining. In 2020, it was estimated that per capita consumption reached around 24.5 kilograms, a decrease in over 10 kilograms since the 1980s.