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Livestock Density 1997

Report year 1997Data year 1997

Livestock units per hectare of agricultural landNeither end is better — this is a shape, not a scorePublished by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

63 reference years (1961–2023), covering 158 to 188 countries, from FAOSTAT's Livestock Patterns domain, with the absolute total stored beside it. ⚠ THE SHEET ROW ASKS FOR "HEAD COUNTS OF CATTLE, SHEEP, POULTRY AND THE REST", AND THAT IS NOT A NUMBER THAT CAN BE PUBLISHED: head counts by species cannot be added, because a chicken is not a cow. FAO's own answer is the LIVESTOCK UNIT, which weighs species by feed requirement, and "Major livestock types" is its own published all-species total — nothing here is aggregated by this site. Per hectare of agricultural land then makes a large country comparable with a small one. The row is therefore narrowed and renamed, the same call made for the UIS funding-per-student row. ⚠ NEITHER END IS BETTER: high density is intensive farming, efficient in land and hard on water, soil and emissions; low density is extensive grazing, or very little livestock at all. Read it beside agricultural emissions, which is largely what it drives. The FAO ranks nobody, so no rank is stored; the POSITION is derived here and labelled as ours.

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Livestock Density 1997 — Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Cite as: FAO. FAOSTAT. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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How much livestock a country carries for each hectare of its agricultural land, in FAO's own livestock units — a standard that weighs species by feed requirement, so cattle, sheep and poultry can be counted together. The absolute total is stored beside it. ⚠ FAO'S AGGREGATE, NOT OURS: "Major livestock types" is a published total, not a sum computed here — head counts by species cannot be added, because a chicken is not a cow. ⚠ NEITHER END IS BETTER. High density is intensive farming, which is efficient in land and hard on water, soil and emissions; low density is extensive grazing or very little livestock at all. Read it beside agricultural emissions. The FAO does not rank countries on it, so no rank is stored and none is derived.

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Livestock Density 1997 — 182 rows. Column headings sort the table.
ISO Code	Country	Livestock units per hectare of agricultural land	Total livestock units	Share of total livestock (%)
SGP	Singapore	18	21,185	100
HKG	Hong Kong	10	70,897	100
TWN	Taiwan	5	3,916,763	100
BRN	Brunei	4	53,465	100
NLD	Netherlands	4	8,556,478	100
MLT	Malta	4	38,330	100
BHS	Bahamas	3	33,640	100
BRB	Barbados	3	59,450	100
FSM	Micronesia	3	17,068	100
SYC	Seychelles	3	11,025	100
TTO	Trinidad and Tobago	3	181,142	100
KOR	South Korea	2	4,853,887	100
EGY	Egypt	2	7,688,840	100
KWT	Kuwait	2	327,047	100
BHR	Bahrain	2	19,324	100
QAT	Qatar	2	121,784	100
DNK	Denmark	2	4,870,696	100
JPN	Japan	2	9,826,290	100
ATG	Antigua and Barbuda	2	15,799	100
BGD	Bangladesh	2	16,134,600	100
IRL	Ireland	2	7,111,940	100
CYP	Cyprus	2	218,551	100
NRU	Nauru	2	610	100
TUV	Tuvalu	1	2,950	100
NPL	Nepal	1	6,173,257	100
NOR	Norway	1	1,427,357	100
VNM	Vietnam	1	10,342,690	100
LAO	Laos	1	2,260,655	100
SUR	Suriname	1	112,767	100
DEU	Germany	1	22,016,071	100
CHE	Switzerland	1	2,000,610	100
VCT	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1	10,125	100
ARE	United Arab Emirates	1	465,721	100
WSM	Samoa	1	58,695	100
TON	Tonga	1	33,510	100
AUT	Austria	1	3,173,976	100
GBR	United Kingdom	1	18,397,105	100
SVN	Slovenia	1	508,043	100
NZL	New Zealand	1	13,130,181	100
DOM	Dominican Republic	1	2,511,950	100
LCA	Saint Lucia	1	16,720	100
ISR	Israel	1	545,260	100
MUS	Mauritius	1	95,475	100
IND	India	1	169,345,130	100
HTI	Haiti	1	1,552,000	100
MMR	Myanmar	1	9,717,255	100
PAK	Pakistan	1	33,457,650	100
JAM	Jamaica	1	435,250	100
FRA	France	1	25,524,425	100
TLS	Timor-Leste	1	293,062	100
CPV	Cabo Verde	1	60,740	100
GRD	Grenada	1	9,206	100
ALB	Albania	1	936,914	100
FJI	Fiji	1	322,724	100
SLV	El Salvador	1	1,002,578	100
ECU	Ecuador	1	6,257,676	100
DMA	Dominica	1	12,670	100
SWE	Sweden	1	2,413,791	100
PRT	Portugal	1	2,616,607	100
ITA	Italy	1	11,108,196	100
PHL	Philippines	1	8,120,948	100
FIN	Finland	1	1,533,620	100
CRI	Costa Rica	1	1,358,342	100
LBN	Lebanon	1	436,405	100
KHM	Cambodia	1	3,114,777	100
ETH	Ethiopia	1	20,655,275	100
KNA	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1	6,000	100
URY	Uruguay	1	9,726,975	100
VUT	Vanuatu	1	109,215	100
BRA	Brazil	1	135,448,450	100
GNB	Guinea-Bissau	1	377,195	100
CUB	Cuba	1	3,835,419	100
CZE	Czechia	1	2,432,633	100
VEN	Venezuela	1	12,362,013	100
IDN	Indonesia	1	24,256,467	100
PAN	Panama	1	1,191,385	100
LKA	Sri Lanka	1	1,315,195	100
HND	Honduras	1	1,842,740	100
POL	Poland	1	9,860,106	100
GTM	Guatemala	1	2,382,185	100
JOR	Jordan	1	549,039	100
PRY	Paraguay	1	7,842,383	100
SVK	Slovakia	1	1,219,557	100
COL	Colombia	0	21,921,540	100
NIC	Nicaragua	0	2,332,510	100
ESP	Spain	0	14,632,490	100
BLR	Belarus	0	4,281,415	100
CHN	China	0	239,359,750	100
ROU	Romania	0	6,481,445	100
THA	Thailand	0	9,489,353	100
GMB	Gambia	0	233,851	100
PRK	North Korea	0	1,047,740	100
BTN	Bhutan	0	233,016	100
BFA	Burkina Faso	0	4,310,177	100
AZE	Azerbaijan	0	1,769,055	100
CMR	Cameroon	0	3,587,600	100
MYS	Malaysia	0	2,747,863	100
OMN	Oman	0	417,450	100
HRV	Croatia	0	730,998	100
MKD	North Macedonia	0	490,110	100
PNG	Papua New Guinea	0	389,105	100
TUR	Türkiye	0	14,945,520	100
CAF	Central African Republic	0	1,859,780	100
HUN	Hungary	0	2,295,804	100
BEN	Benin	0	1,033,570	100
BLZ	Belize	0	52,503	100
COM	Comoros	0	43,985	100
MEX	Mexico	0	37,186,514	100
MDA	Moldova	0	846,579	100
UKR	Ukraine	0	13,895,345	100
USA	United States	0	135,432,525	100
ARG	Argentina	0	40,708,810	100
SWZ	Eswatini	0	391,119	100
GUY	Guyana	0	230,300	100
KEN	Kenya	0	8,462,196	100
SEN	Senegal	0	2,782,840	100
UGA	Uganda	0	3,923,490	100
ARM	Armenia	0	416,747	100
LTU	Lithuania	0	1,048,170	100
PER	Peru	0	6,974,261	100
CAN	Canada	0	18,080,895	100
EST	Estonia	0	310,300	100
CHL	Chile	0	4,361,884	100
GEO	Georgia	0	875,278	100
GRC	Greece	0	2,576,518	100
SLB	Solomon Islands	0	20,265	100
IRN	Iran	0	17,260,040	100
LVA	Latvia	0	481,610	100
TZA	Tanzania	0	8,665,495	100
BGR	Bulgaria	0	1,535,155	100
IRQ	Iraq	0	2,169,684	100
LSO	Lesotho	0	591,833	100
RWA	Rwanda	0	405,045	100
NGA	Nigeria	0	15,559,965	100
ZWE	Zimbabwe	0	3,256,990	100
BIH	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	469,280	100
STP	São Tomé and Príncipe	0	5,886	100
SOM	Somalia	0	9,911,450	100
TJK	Tajikistan	0	992,217	100
ERI	Eritrea	0	1,523,428	100
TUN	Tunisia	0	2,006,179	100
DJI	Djibouti	0	280,520	100
BOL	Bolivia	0	6,771,789	100
BDI	Burundi	0	355,912	100
MAR	Morocco	0	5,661,780	100
TCD	Chad	0	8,287,297	100
SYR	Syria	0	2,415,692	100
MDG	Madagascar	0	5,868,149	100
MWI	Malawi	0	692,351	100
NER	Niger	0	5,410,903	100
RUS	Russia	0	33,238,308	100
SLE	Sierra Leone	0	414,000	100
ZAF	South Africa	0	14,715,677	100
TGO	Togo	0	502,246	100
UZB	Uzbekistan	0	4,218,845	100
AFG	Afghanistan	0	4,810,150	100
KIR	Kiribati	0	4,900	100
MLI	Mali	0	4,765,926	100
GIN	Guinea	0	1,482,851	100
KGZ	Kyrgyzstan	0	1,158,067	100
YEM	Yemen	0	2,670,300	100
DZA	Algeria	0	4,080,837	100
GNQ	Equatorial Guinea	0	10,920	100
GHA	Ghana	0	1,375,253	100
ISL	Iceland	0	179,497	100
LBR	Liberia	0	120,000	100
AUS	Australia	0	37,911,870	100
ZMB	Zambia	0	1,741,968	100
LBY	Libya	0	1,062,850	100
MRT	Mauritania	0	2,648,300	100
BWA	Botswana	0	1,541,800	100
CIV	Côte d’Ivoire	0	1,238,354	100
COD	DR Congo	0	1,555,140	100
GAB	Gabon	0	117,000	100
AGO	Angola	0	2,209,575	100
MNG	Mongolia	0	6,622,112	100
MOZ	Mozambique	0	1,450,100	100
NAM	Namibia	0	1,538,304	100
KAZ	Kazakhstan	0	5,897,945	100
TKM	Turkmenistan	0	1,234,650	100
SAU	Saudi Arabia	0	3,006,741	100
COG	Republic of the Congo	0	107,033	100

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