Caribbean vs Costa Rica: Cattle — Livestock units per agricultural land area
Cattle — Livestock units per agricultural land area over time
- Caribbean
- Costa Rica
How they compare
Costa Rica currently reports 0.91 LSU/ha against 0.44 LSU/ha in Caribbean, a difference of 0.47 LSU/ha.
That makes Costa Rica's figure about 2.1 times Caribbean's.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Caribbean ahead.
Caribbean ranks 6th and Costa Rica ranks 12th of 31 groups.
Across the 7 decades both report, Caribbean averaged higher in 1 and Costa Rica in 6.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Caribbean | Costa Rica | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 0.5633 LSU/ha | 0.5356 LSU/ha | 0.0278 LSU/ha | Caribbean |
| 1970s | 0.496 LSU/ha | 0.59 LSU/ha | 0.094 LSU/ha | Costa Rica |
| 1980s | 0.479 LSU/ha | 0.616 LSU/ha | 0.137 LSU/ha | Costa Rica |
| 1990s | 0.465 LSU/ha | 0.617 LSU/ha | 0.152 LSU/ha | Costa Rica |
| 2000s | 0.442 LSU/ha | 0.468 LSU/ha | 0.026 LSU/ha | Costa Rica |
| 2010s | 0.464 LSU/ha | 0.555 LSU/ha | 0.091 LSU/ha | Costa Rica |
| 2020s | 0.4475 LSU/ha | 0.7825 LSU/ha | 0.335 LSU/ha | Costa Rica |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher cattle — livestock units per agricultural land area, Caribbean or Costa Rica?
- Costa Rica, at 0.91 LSU/ha against 0.44 LSU/ha in Caribbean as of 2023.
- What is the difference in cattle — livestock units per agricultural land area between Caribbean and Costa Rica?
- 0.47 LSU/ha, with Costa Rica ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Caribbean and Costa Rica?
- 63 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2023.
- How do Caribbean and Costa Rica rank globally for cattle — livestock units per agricultural land area?
- Caribbean ranks 6th and Costa Rica ranks 12th of 31 groups.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Cattle — Livestock units per agricultural land area. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
Individual pages
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.