India vs Japan: Cattle and Buffaloes — Livestock units per agricultural land area
Cattle and Buffaloes — Livestock units per agricultural land area over time
- India
- Japan
How they compare
India currently reports 0.86 LSU/ha against 0.79 LSU/ha in Japan, a difference of 0.07 LSU/ha.
That makes India's figure about 1.1 times Japan's.
The two have swapped places 6 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was India ahead.
India ranks 16th and Japan ranks 19th of 190 countries.
India has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | India | Japan | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 0.6467 LSU/ha | 0.4211 LSU/ha | 0.2256 LSU/ha | India |
| 1970s | 0.668 LSU/ha | 0.53 LSU/ha | 0.138 LSU/ha | India |
| 1980s | 0.743 LSU/ha | 0.685 LSU/ha | 0.058 LSU/ha | India |
| 1990s | 0.796 LSU/ha | 0.783 LSU/ha | 0.013 LSU/ha | India |
| 2000s | 0.813 LSU/ha | 0.789 LSU/ha | 0.024 LSU/ha | India |
| 2010s | 0.836 LSU/ha | 0.744 LSU/ha | 0.092 LSU/ha | India |
| 2020s | 0.855 LSU/ha | 0.77 LSU/ha | 0.085 LSU/ha | India |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher cattle and buffaloes — livestock units per agricultural land area, India or Japan?
- India, at 0.86 LSU/ha against 0.79 LSU/ha in Japan as of 2023.
- What is the difference in cattle and buffaloes — livestock units per agricultural land area between India and Japan?
- 0.07 LSU/ha, with India ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for India and Japan?
- 63 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2023.
- How do India and Japan rank globally for cattle and buffaloes — livestock units per agricultural land area?
- India ranks 16th and Japan ranks 19th of 190 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Cattle and Buffaloes — Livestock units per agricultural land area. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
The Livestock Patterns domain of FAOSTAT contains data on livestock numbers, shares of major livestock species and densities of livestock units in the agricultural land area. Values are calculated using Livestock Units (LSU), which facilitate aggregating information for different livestock types. Data are available by country, with global coverage, for the period 1961 to the most recent year available with annual updates. This methodology applies the LSU coefficients reported in the "Guidelines for the preparation of livestock sector reviews" (FAO, 2011). From this publication, LSU coefficients are computed by livestock type and by country. The reference unit used for the calculation of livestock units (=1 LSU) is the grazing equivalent of one adult dairy cow producing 3000 kg of milk annually, fed without additional concentrated foodstuffs. FAOSTAT agri-environmental indicators on livestock patterns closely follow the structure of the indicators in EUROSTAT.