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51. About 30 percent of India's population is already vegetarian and has a meat consumption of

4kg per person. China is about half the US at 60kg pp. China’s figures have grown a lot in the last 20 plus years as a more affluent class has developed, so prior it was well under 60kgs These figures should be used as relative figures since they are calculated using the whole animal and after bones, waste etc the actual eaten numbers would be half for all countries listed. Both the US and China have about 4 percent of the population being vegetarian, though the Chinese eat meat, they eat half as much as we in the US do.

Anecdotally, I lived in China for 4 years and travelled to India on business the menus in both places had many more vegetable entrees than in the US. I always found wonderful options. So I’m guessing it would be much easier to get both India and China to eliminate or reduce meat consumption than it would to get the US to.

Hope you find this all interesting and thanks for the question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_meat_consumption

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country