Italy vs Portugal: Chickens — Livestock units per agricultural land area

Italy
0.11 LSU/ha
in 2020
Portugal
0.12 LSU/ha
in 2020
Italy rank
59th
Portugal rank
58th

Chickens — Livestock units per agricultural land area over time

  • Italy
  • Portugal
0.020.040.060.080.10.12196119902020

How they compare

Portugal currently reports 0.12 LSU/ha against 0.11 LSU/ha in Italy, a difference of 0.01 LSU/ha.

That makes Portugal's figure about 1.1 times Italy's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 58 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Italy ahead.

Italy ranks 59th and Portugal ranks 58th of 192 countries.

Across the 7 decades both report, Italy averaged higher in 5 and Portugal in 2.

Head to head by decade

Decade Italy Portugal Difference Ahead
1960s 0.0489 LSU/ha 0.0267 LSU/ha 0.0222 LSU/ha Italy
1970s 0.071 LSU/ha 0.04 LSU/ha 0.031 LSU/ha Italy
1980s 0.077 LSU/ha 0.044 LSU/ha 0.033 LSU/ha Italy
1990s 0.081 LSU/ha 0.066 LSU/ha 0.015 LSU/ha Italy
2000s 0.071 LSU/ha 0.091 LSU/ha 0.02 LSU/ha Portugal
2010s 0.1025 LSU/ha 0.0838 LSU/ha 0.0188 LSU/ha Italy
2020s 0.11 LSU/ha 0.12 LSU/ha 0.01 LSU/ha Portugal

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher chickens — livestock units per agricultural land area, Italy or Portugal?
Portugal, at 0.12 LSU/ha against 0.11 LSU/ha in Italy as of 2020.
What is the difference in chickens — livestock units per agricultural land area between Italy and Portugal?
0.01 LSU/ha, with Portugal ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Italy and Portugal?
58 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2020.
How do Italy and Portugal rank globally for chickens — livestock units per agricultural land area?
Italy ranks 59th and Portugal ranks 58th of 192 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Chickens — 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

Indicator
Chickens — Livestock units per agricultural land area
Unit
LSU/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
243 places, 13,893 data points, 1961–2023
Last refreshed

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.