50
billion animals slaughtered per year
2003-03-10
There are many different references as to the exact number
of livestock animals in the world. Naturally, one will get different figures
depending on what animals are counted. If poultry are included the figure
gets as high as 50 billion per year. According to the FAO Database; FAOSTAT,
Agriculture Data the statistics for 2002 go as follows:
| Poultry: |
47,5 billion |
| Pigs: |
1,2 billion |
| Sheep
and goat: |
822 million |
| Turkey: |
664 million |
| Veal
and buffalo: |
303 million |
Jens Holm
holmjens@hotmail.com
Slaughtered animals divided by main countries
| Chicken |
| World |
47,5 billion |
| China |
9,1 billion |
| USA |
9,1 billion |
| Brazil |
5 billion |
| France |
1,1 billion |
| Mexiko |
1,1 billion |
| Thailand |
1,1 billion |
| Indonesia |
1,1 billion |
| |
| Sweden |
79 million |
|
| Pigs |
| World |
1,2 billion |
| China |
580 million |
| USA |
100 million |
| Germany |
44 million |
| Spain |
36 million |
| France |
27 million |
| Denmark |
22 million |
| |
| Sweden |
3,2 million |
|
| Sheep
and goat |
| World |
822 million |
| China |
223 million |
| India |
66 million |
| Australia |
33 million |
| Pakistan |
31 million |
| New Zealand |
31 million |
| Iran |
29 million |
| |
| Sweden |
193 000 |
|
| Turkey |
| World |
664 million |
| USA |
270 million |
| France |
118 million |
| |
| Sweden |
650 000 |
|
| Veal
and buffalo |
| World |
303 million |
| USA |
37 million |
| Brazil |
33 million |
| India |
25 million |
| Argentina |
13 million |
| Russia |
12 million |
| |
| Sweden |
500 000 |
|
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Source:
FAO, FAOSTAT, Agriculture Data, http://apps.fao.org/default.htm
Footnote:
These figures may appear high, but they correspond
well with statistics on meat from e.g. FAOs Food Outlook. By dividing
the total production of e.g. poultry meat; 72.1 million tonnes with the
weight of a slaughtered broiler chicken (approx. 1,5 kgs), one will arrive
at a total number of 48 billion individuals or the 93.3 million tonnes
of pork meat with 85 kgs (the meat from a slaughtered pig) and one gets
around 1.1 billion pigs.
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