Farm animal population

It was decided to use only the figures for cattle and pigs, to represent the farm animal population of the countries in the FOCUS study. These are good indicators of a country's animal production capacity. In addition most veterinary acts are carried out on this population.

             

Cow/pig population in millions

 

Country	DK	ES	FI	FR	HU	PT	RO	SI	SK	UK
Cattle x 1000	1110	6411	969	20000	669	1250	2871	478	593	10517
Pigs x 1000	12000	11000	1375	15000	5096	2350	8260	608	1443	5047
Cattle + pigs x 1000	13100	17411	2344	35000	5765	3600	11131	1086	2036	15564

France ranks first among the countries in the FOCUS study, with a total of 35 million cattle and pigs, with an equal number of each. Spain, the United Kingdom and Denmark have roughly the same number of animals (17, 15 and 13 million cattle and pigs respectively) despite the contrasting population and surface area of these countries. It is to be noted that the pattern for Denmark is different with a majority of pigs (12 million) over cattle. Romania ranks 5th in the study for cattle and pig population. The other countries have less than 6 million cattle and pigs: Hungary, Finland, Slovakia and Slovenia.