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Livestock Density 2010

Report year 2010Data year 2010

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 2010 — Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

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

Licence: CC BY 4.0

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.

186 rows × 5 columns · imported from the publisher’s published data file on 2026-09-11

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Livestock Density 2010 — 186 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	45	33,197	100
BRN	Brunei	11	153,901	100
HKG	Hong Kong	10	57,283	100
TTO	Trinidad and Tobago	7	365,703	100
NLD	Netherlands	4	7,894,772	100
FSM	Micronesia	4	17,950	100
KOR	South Korea	3	6,185,067	100
BRB	Barbados	3	51,783	100
MLT	Malta	3	35,639	100
TWN	Taiwan	3	2,648,507	100
BEL	Belgium	3	4,323,201	100
BHS	Bahamas	3	33,550	100
KWT	Kuwait	3	402,680	100
BHR	Bahrain	2	21,450	100
EGY	Egypt	2	8,765,800	100
QAT	Qatar	2	160,585	100
ARE	United Arab Emirates	2	862,720	100
CYP	Cyprus	2	227,986	100
SYC	Seychelles	2	4,694	100
DNK	Denmark	2	4,942,840	100
JPN	Japan	2	9,262,150	100
BGD	Bangladesh	2	17,105,550	100
NPL	Nepal	2	7,453,248	100
TUV	Tuvalu	2	3,259	100
DOM	Dominican Republic	2	4,089,880	100
LCA	Saint Lucia	2	17,530	100
MUS	Mauritius	2	153,300	100
WSM	Samoa	2	68,516	100
NRU	Nauru	2	650	100
LUX	Luxembourg	2	205,254	100
ISR	Israel	2	789,150	100
IRL	Ireland	2	7,011,355	100
VCT	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1	9,990	100
SUR	Suriname	1	111,599	100
PAK	Pakistan	1	49,463,500	100
VNM	Vietnam	1	15,003,996	100
NOR	Norway	1	1,379,652	100
KNA	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1	7,800	100
CHE	Switzerland	1	2,021,580	100
LAO	Laos	1	2,786,300	100
MMR	Myanmar	1	15,331,789	100
ATG	Antigua and Barbuda	1	10,775	100
DEU	Germany	1	19,824,017	100
GRD	Grenada	1	11,089	100
TON	Tonga	1	35,055	100
NZL	New Zealand	1	12,454,061	100
AUT	Austria	1	2,859,615	100
ETH	Ethiopia	1	35,899,485	100
IND	India	1	180,742,345	100
FJI	Fiji	1	313,190	100
SLV	El Salvador	1	1,195,955	100
LBN	Lebanon	1	620,102	100
TLS	Timor-Leste	1	319,246	100
HTI	Haiti	1	1,813,550	100
GBR	United Kingdom	1	15,176,560	100
FRA	France	1	24,737,251	100
ECU	Ecuador	1	6,355,378	100
GTM	Guatemala	1	3,521,840	100
JAM	Jamaica	1	345,740	100
HND	Honduras	1	2,584,925	100
CPV	Cabo Verde	1	61,166	100
PHL	Philippines	1	9,476,425	100
BRA	Brazil	1	176,327,942	100
CRI	Costa Rica	1	1,370,695	100
ITA	Italy	1	10,494,956	100
SVN	Slovenia	1	446,785	100
GNB	Guinea-Bissau	1	532,492	100
VUT	Vanuatu	1	128,649	100
SWE	Sweden	1	2,105,337	100
PRT	Portugal	1	2,441,963	100
JOR	Jordan	1	664,200	100
URY	Uruguay	1	9,512,720	100
KHM	Cambodia	1	3,463,480	100
PAN	Panama	1	1,452,879	100
POL	Poland	1	8,992,817	100
RWA	Rwanda	1	1,182,879	100
NIC	Nicaragua	1	3,068,780	100
BFA	Burkina Faso	1	7,427,529	100
ESP	Spain	1	16,121,928	100
UGA	Uganda	1	8,373,808	100
VEN	Venezuela	1	12,733,867	100
ALB	Albania	1	702,484	100
BLZ	Belize	1	91,437	100
CUB	Cuba	1	3,770,320	100
FIN	Finland	1	1,320,742	100
KEN	Kenya	1	16,000,885	100
AZE	Azerbaijan	1	2,708,810	100
IDN	Indonesia	1	28,599,777	100
CAF	Central African Republic	1	2,752,660	100
COL	Colombia	1	23,914,033	100
PRK	North Korea	1	1,506,140	100
SRB	Serbia	1	1,931,689	100
HRV	Croatia	1	708,568	100
CHN	China	1	270,274,581	100
DMA	Dominica	1	12,730	100
GMB	Gambia	0	318,587	100
PRY	Paraguay	0	9,316,548	100
IRN	Iran	0	22,118,750	100
BLR	Belarus	0	4,074,855	100
CZE	Czechia	0	1,568,588	100
MYS	Malaysia	0	3,352,109	100
TJK	Tajikistan	0	1,707,067	100
CMR	Cameroon	0	4,236,639	100
GUY	Guyana	0	318,393	100
IRQ	Iraq	0	3,594,000	100
BEN	Benin	0	1,483,635	100
THA	Thailand	0	9,630,642	100
BTN	Bhutan	0	213,754	100
OMN	Oman	0	597,287	100
MEX	Mexico	0	40,256,285	100
PNG	Papua New Guinea	0	488,700	100
ROU	Romania	0	5,311,632	100
SEN	Senegal	0	3,564,202	100
LKA	Sri Lanka	0	992,211	100
PER	Peru	0	8,579,086	100
BIH	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	758,877	100
TCD	Chad	0	17,366,387	100
COM	Comoros	0	46,360	100
GEO	Georgia	0	825,480	100
GRC	Greece	0	2,520,693	100
BDI	Burundi	0	610,309	100
SVK	Slovakia	0	646,830	100
TUR	Türkiye	0	12,825,156	100
ARG	Argentina	0	40,445,759	100
SWZ	Eswatini	0	391,094	100
HUN	Hungary	0	1,721,888	100
NGA	Nigeria	0	21,516,004	100
TZA	Tanzania	0	11,830,694	100
USA	United States	0	132,966,368	100
CAN	Canada	0	17,889,945	100
CHL	Chile	0	4,475,331	100
LTU	Lithuania	0	816,510	100
MKD	North Macedonia	0	326,707	100
EST	Estonia	0	261,335	100
UZB	Uzbekistan	0	7,176,405	100
ARM	Armenia	0	470,510	100
BOL	Bolivia	0	10,114,533	100
LSO	Lesotho	0	622,628	100
MWI	Malawi	0	1,478,733	100
STP	São Tomé and Príncipe	0	8,990	100
KIR	Kiribati	0	8,400	100
TUN	Tunisia	0	2,492,191	100
TGO	Togo	0	888,402	100
ZWE	Zimbabwe	0	3,879,657	100
MDA	Moldova	0	578,985	100
MAR	Morocco	0	6,765,293	100
SLB	Solomon Islands	0	21,998	100
ERI	Eritrea	0	1,684,441	100
SOM	Somalia	0	9,705,025	100
LVA	Latvia	0	385,915	100
MLI	Mali	0	8,664,879	100
GIN	Guinea	0	3,070,747	100
NER	Niger	0	8,665,501	100
SYR	Syria	0	2,821,676	100
AFG	Afghanistan	0	7,046,430	100
BGR	Bulgaria	0	915,157	100
GHA	Ghana	0	2,178,722	100
MNE	Montenegro	0	91,317	100
SLE	Sierra Leone	0	722,073	100
YEM	Yemen	0	4,206,554	100
DJI	Djibouti	0	297,820	100
UKR	Ukraine	0	6,993,630	100
ZAF	South Africa	0	15,257,799	100
KGZ	Kyrgyzstan	0	1,624,845	100
MDG	Madagascar	0	5,713,662	100
DZA	Algeria	0	5,544,759	100
GNQ	Equatorial Guinea	0	12,100	100
LBR	Liberia	0	201,015	100
RUS	Russia	0	23,724,944	100
LBY	Libya	0	1,511,000	100
ZMB	Zambia	0	2,285,600	100
AUS	Australia	0	32,789,513	100
ISL	Iceland	0	176,801	100
MRT	Mauritania	0	3,421,410	100
TKM	Turkmenistan	0	3,135,605	100
CIV	Côte d’Ivoire	0	1,612,685	100
AGO	Angola	0	3,286,711	100
BWA	Botswana	0	1,688,290	100
GAB	Gabon	0	121,700	100
MNG	Mongolia	0	5,725,215	100
NAM	Namibia	0	1,823,330	100
COD	DR Congo	0	1,266,660	100
MOZ	Mozambique	0	1,572,922	100
KAZ	Kazakhstan	0	6,992,420	100
COG	Republic of the Congo	0	252,635	100
SAU	Saudi Arabia	0	3,191,103	100

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