Malta vs Tonga: Swine / pigs — Livestock units per agricultural land area
Swine / pigs — Livestock units per agricultural land area over time
- Malta
- Tonga
How they compare
Malta currently reports 0.86 LSU/ha against 0.48 LSU/ha in Tonga, a difference of 0.38 LSU/ha.
That makes Malta's figure about 1.8 times Tonga's.
The two have swapped places 6 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Malta ahead.
Malta ranks 13th and Tonga ranks 16th of 172 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Malta averaged higher in 6 and Tonga in 1.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Malta | Tonga | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 0.2678 LSU/ha | 0.1911 LSU/ha | 0.0767 LSU/ha | Malta |
| 1970s | 0.331 LSU/ha | 0.352 LSU/ha | 0.021 LSU/ha | Tonga |
| 1980s | 1.02 LSU/ha | 0.581 LSU/ha | 0.444 LSU/ha | Malta |
| 1990s | 1.58 LSU/ha | 0.545 LSU/ha | 1.04 LSU/ha | Malta |
| 2000s | 1.58 LSU/ha | 0.531 LSU/ha | 1.05 LSU/ha | Malta |
| 2010s | 0.872 LSU/ha | 0.491 LSU/ha | 0.381 LSU/ha | Malta |
| 2020s | 0.835 LSU/ha | 0.48 LSU/ha | 0.355 LSU/ha | Malta |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher swine / pigs — livestock units per agricultural land area, Malta or Tonga?
- Malta, at 0.86 LSU/ha against 0.48 LSU/ha in Tonga as of 2023.
- What is the difference in swine / pigs — livestock units per agricultural land area between Malta and Tonga?
- 0.38 LSU/ha, with Malta ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Malta and Tonga?
- 63 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2023.
- How do Malta and Tonga rank globally for swine / pigs — livestock units per agricultural land area?
- Malta ranks 13th and Tonga ranks 16th of 172 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Swine / pigs — 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.