Number of cattle, 2006

Number of cattle FAOcattle
Country/area
2006
Afghanistan
4,110,000
Albania
634,000
Algeria
1,607,890
Angola
4,105,750
Antigua and Barbuda
14,300
Argentina
58,293,608
Armenia
592,067
Australia
28,393,400
Austria
2,010,680
Azerbaijan
2,067,000
Bahamas
750
Bahrain
9,000
Bangladesh
22,800,000
Barbados
10,500
Belarus
3,980,200
Belgium
2,669,076
Belize
67,611
Benin
1,810,000
Bhutan
312,063
Bolivia
7,409,002
Bosnia and Herzegovina
514,869
Botswana
2,150,000
Brazil
205,886,240
Brunei
1,010
Bulgaria
621,797
Burkina Faso
7,759,005
Burundi
433,800
Cambodia
3,344,612
Cameroon
6,000,000
Canada
14,655,000
Cape Verde
27,370
Central African Republic
3,600,000
Chad
15,629,000
Chile
3,900,000
China
87,413,000
Colombia
26,129,020
Comoros
49,000
Congo
250,000
Cook Islands
197
Costa Rica
1,100,000
Cote d'Ivoire
1,478,035
Croatia
482,905
Cuba
3,737,200
Cyprus
56,109
Czechia
1,373,645
Czechoslovakia
Democratic Republic of Congo
755,500
Denmark
1,534,763
Djibouti
297,000
Dominica
13,500
Dominican Republic
2,228,149
East Timor
139,426
Ecuador
5,034,652
Egypt
4,610,000
El Salvador
1,319,419
Equatorial Guinea
5,100
Eritrea
1,950,000
Estonia
249,500
Eswatini
580,000
Ethiopia
43,124,584
Ethiopia (former)
Faroe Islands
2,069
Fiji
310,000
Finland
949,291
France
19,534,688
French Guiana
13,386
French Polynesia
7,200
Gabon
35,000
Gambia
413,000
Georgia
1,060,900
Germany
12,747,900
Ghana
1,392,000
Greece
617,695
Grenada
5,238
Guadeloupe
75,830
Guatemala
2,679,200
Guinea
3,962,380
Guinea-Bissau
550,000
Guyana
110,000
Haiti
1,450,000
Honduras
2,454,096
Hong Kong
1,550
Hungary
708,000
Iceland
68,670
India
195,535,008
Indonesia
10,875,125
Iran
7,892,000
Iraq
1,130,000
Ireland
6,977,800
Israel
406,000
Italy
6,255,000
Jamaica
210,000
Japan
4,391,000
Jordan
69,100
Kazakhstan
5,457,400
Kenya
12,416,271
Kuwait
31,529
Kyrgyzstan
1,074,764
Laos
1,321,000
Latvia
385,200
Lebanon
77,000
Lesotho
687,588
Liberia
37,000
Libya
185,000
Lithuania
800,300
Luxembourg
183,640
Madagascar
9,573,290
Malawi
799,017
Malaysia
786,201
Mali
7,532,000
Malta
19,742
Martinique
23,900
Mauritania
1,700,000
Mauritius
6,934
Mexico
31,163,124
Micronesia (country)
13,900
Moldova
310,476
Mongolia
2,167,900
Montenegro
117,482
Morocco
2,755,100
Mozambique
1,053,000
Myanmar
12,364,310
Namibia
2,383,960
Nepal
7,002,916
Netherlands
3,749,000
New Caledonia
87,000
New Zealand
9,608,693
Nicaragua
3,600,000
Niger
7,776,953
Nigeria
16,013,382
Niue
112
North Korea
575,000
North Macedonia
255,430
Norway
922,976
Oman
307,580
Pakistan
29,558,812
Palestine
36,284
Panama
1,561,600
Papua New Guinea
93,000
Paraguay
9,982,932
Peru
5,241,102
Philippines
2,519,740
Poland
5,606,358
Portugal
1,440,800
Puerto Rico
357,417
Qatar
7,411
Reunion
36,372
Romania
2,862,000
Russia
21,625,028
Rwanda
1,122,179
Saint Kitts and Nevis
6,000
Saint Lucia
10,800
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
5,000
Samoa
30,000
Sao Tome and Principe
2,500
Saudi Arabia
369,000
Senegal
3,136,959
Serbia
1,106,000
Serbia and Montenegro
Seychelles
570
Sierra Leone
350,000
Singapore
200
Slovakia
527,889
Slovenia
452,517
Solomon Islands
14,000
Somalia
5,350,000
South Africa
13,532,000
South Korea
2,483,572
South Sudan
Spain
6,184,092
Sri Lanka
1,184,710
Sudan
Sudan (former)
40,994,000
Suriname
43,495
Sweden
1,590,409
Switzerland
1,566,900
Syria
1,121,440
Taiwan
133,841
Tajikistan
1,371,882
Tanzania
18,500,000
Thailand
6,042,039
Togo
302,400
Tonga
11,250
Trinidad and Tobago
29,000
Tunisia
703,150
Turkey
10,526,440
Turkmenistan
2,065,000
USSR
Uganda
6,973,100
Ukraine
6,514,100
United Arab Emirates
58,838
United Kingdom
10,579,000
United States
96,701,504
Uruguay
12,437,000
Uzbekistan
6,571,500
Vanuatu
142,915
Venezuela
16,628,837
Vietnam
6,510,800
Yemen
1,463,700
Yugoslavia
Zambia
2,799,965
Zimbabwe
4,987,000
Other
Africa
223,290,104
Africa (FAO)
264,284,096
Americas (FAO)
514,588,416
Asia
445,339,670
Asia (FAO)
445,395,776
Belgium-Luxembourg (FAO)
Caribbean (FAO)
8,177,584
Central America (FAO)
43,945,048
Central Asia (FAO)
16,540,546
China (FAO)
87,548,392
Eastern Africa (FAO)
109,472,080
Eastern Asia (FAO)
97,165,864
Eastern Europe (FAO)
44,129,492
Europe
128,787,996
Europe (FAO)
128,731,888
European Union (27)
80,590,796
European Union (27) (FAO)
80,590,800
High-income countries
291,435,904
Land Locked Developing Countries (FAO)
158,025,520
Least Developed Countries (FAO)
247,138,928
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (FAO)
237,920,736
Low-income countries
122,353,968
Lower-middle-income countries
395,264,290
Melanesia
646,915
Micronesia (FAO)
13,900
Middle Africa (FAO)
30,382,850
Net Food Importing Developing Countries (FAO)
339,504,352
North America
163,479,138
Northern Africa (FAO)
50,855,140
Northern America (FAO)
111,356,504
Northern Europe (FAO)
24,059,978
Oceania
38,711,667
Oceania (FAO)
38,711,668
Polynesia
48,759
Small Island Developing States (FAO)
9,884,264
South America
351,109,274
South America (FAO)
351,109,280
South-eastern Asia (FAO)
43,904,464
Southern Africa (FAO)
19,333,548
Southern Asia (FAO)
268,395,504
Southern Europe (FAO)
18,080,532
Upper-middle-income countries
541,513,890
Western Africa (FAO)
54,240,484
Western Asia (FAO)
19,389,398
Western Europe (FAO)
42,461,884
World
1,391,711,872
Data

Number of cattle

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What you should know about this indicator

Item: Cattle

Description: Cattle This subclass includes: - cattle, species of Bos, mainly bovis, taurus, indicus, grunniens, gaurus, grontalis and sondaicus, known with many different names: ox, zebu, yak, gaur, gayal, banteng, etc. This subclass does not include: - buffalo, species of Bubalus, Syncerus and bisons, species of Bison, cf. 02112

Metric: Stocks

Description: Number of animals of the species present in the country at the time of enumeration. It includes animals raised either for draft purposes or for meat, eggs and dairy production or kept for breeding. Live animals in captivity for fur or skin such as foxes, minks etc. are not included in the system although furskin trade is reported. The enumeration to be chosen, when more than one survey is taken, is the closest to the beginning of the calendar year. Livestock data are reported in number of heads (units) except for poultry, rabbits and other rodents which are reported in thousand units. Source: FAO Statistics Division.

Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Last updated
March 17, 2025
Next expected update
March 2026
Date range
1961–2023
Unit
animals

Sources and processing

This data is based on the following sources

Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories:

  1. Crops primary: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded.

  2. Crops processed: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine.

  3. Live animals: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys.

  4. Livestock primary: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy.

  5. Livestock processed: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.

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