Portugal vs Rwanda: Major livestock types — Livestock units per agricultural land area

Portugal
0.55 LSU/ha
in 2023
Rwanda
0.57 LSU/ha
in 2023
Portugal rank
93rd
Rwanda rank
90th

Major livestock types — Livestock units per agricultural land area over time

  • Portugal
  • Rwanda
0.20.40.60.8196119922023

How they compare

Rwanda currently reports 0.57 LSU/ha against 0.55 LSU/ha in Portugal, a difference of 0.02 LSU/ha.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Portugal ahead.

Portugal ranks 93rd and Rwanda ranks 90th of 194 countries.

Portugal has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Portugal Rwanda Difference Ahead
1960s 0.5856 LSU/ha 0.2611 LSU/ha 0.3244 LSU/ha Portugal
1970s 0.615 LSU/ha 0.286 LSU/ha 0.329 LSU/ha Portugal
1980s 0.687 LSU/ha 0.263 LSU/ha 0.424 LSU/ha Portugal
1990s 0.677 LSU/ha 0.259 LSU/ha 0.418 LSU/ha Portugal
2000s 0.665 LSU/ha 0.426 LSU/ha 0.239 LSU/ha Portugal
2010s 0.677 LSU/ha 0.632 LSU/ha 0.045 LSU/ha Portugal
2020s 0.6125 LSU/ha 0.6075 LSU/ha 0.005 LSU/ha Portugal

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher major livestock types — livestock units per agricultural land area, Portugal or Rwanda?
Rwanda, at 0.57 LSU/ha against 0.55 LSU/ha in Portugal as of 2023.
What is the difference in major livestock types — livestock units per agricultural land area between Portugal and Rwanda?
0.02 LSU/ha, with Rwanda ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Portugal and Rwanda?
63 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2023.
How do Portugal and Rwanda rank globally for major livestock types — livestock units per agricultural land area?
Portugal ranks 93rd and Rwanda ranks 90th of 194 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Major livestock types — 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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Indicator
Major livestock types — 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
245 places, 14,075 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.