Costa Rica vs Sao Tome and Principe: Sheep — Stocks

Costa Rica
288.5 LSU
in 2023
Sao Tome and Principe
341 LSU
in 2023
Costa Rica rank
171st
Sao Tome and Principe rank
170th

Sheep — Stocks over time

  • Costa Rica
  • Sao Tome and Principe
100150200250300350196119922023

How they compare

Sao Tome and Principe currently reports 341 LSU against 288.5 LSU in Costa Rica, a difference of 52.5 LSU.

That makes Sao Tome and Principe's figure about 1.2 times Costa Rica's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Sao Tome and Principe ahead.

Costa Rica ranks 171st and Sao Tome and Principe ranks 170th of 180 countries.

Across the 7 decades both report, Costa Rica averaged higher in 3 and Sao Tome and Principe in 4.

Head to head by decade

Decade Costa Rica Sao Tome and Principe Difference Ahead
1960s 153.33 LSU 272 LSU 118.67 LSU Sao Tome and Principe
1970s 205.9 LSU 155.36 LSU 50.54 LSU Costa Rica
1980s 247 LSU 180 LSU 67 LSU Costa Rica
1990s 261 LSU 221 LSU 40 LSU Costa Rica
2000s 269 LSU 289 LSU 20 LSU Sao Tome and Principe
2010s 282.66 LSU 324.21 LSU 41.55 LSU Sao Tome and Principe
2020s 287.27 LSU 338.32 LSU 51.05 LSU Sao Tome and Principe

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher sheep — stocks, Costa Rica or Sao Tome and Principe?
Sao Tome and Principe, at 341 LSU against 288.5 LSU in Costa Rica as of 2023.
What is the difference in sheep — stocks between Costa Rica and Sao Tome and Principe?
52.5 LSU, with Sao Tome and Principe ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Costa Rica and Sao Tome and Principe?
63 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2023.
How do Costa Rica and Sao Tome and Principe rank globally for sheep — stocks?
Costa Rica ranks 171st and Sao Tome and Principe ranks 170th of 180 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Sheep — Stocks. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Costa Rica vs Sao Tome and Principe: Sheep — Stocks. Statizoid, drawing on Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved 30 August 2026, from https://environment.statizoid.com/compare/sheep-stocks/costa-rica/sao-tome-and-principe/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://environment.statizoid.com/compare/sheep-stocks/costa-rica/sao-tome-and-principe/">Costa Rica vs Sao Tome and Principe: Sheep — Stocks</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Sheep — Stocks
Unit
LSU
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
227 places, 12,936 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.