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Asses — Livestock units per agricultural land area by country

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...

Countries reporting
68
Highest
0.12 LSU/ha
Egypt
Lowest
0 LSU/ha
Ireland
Median
0.01 LSU/ha
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
9,318

What the numbers show

Asses — Livestock units per agricultural land area is currently reported for 68 countries. The highest value is 0.12 LSU/ha in Egypt; the lowest is 0 LSU/ha in Ireland.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.01 LSU/ha, and the mean is 0.0219 LSU/ha.

Over the past decade 9 countries rose and 8 fell. The largest increase was in Lesotho (up 100.0%), and the largest decrease in Bulgaria (down 100.0%).

Asses — Livestock units per agricultural land area: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Egypt 0.12 LSU/ha 2023 down 29.4% falling
1 Cabo Verde 0.06 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged rising
1 Polynesia 0.03 LSU/ha 2023 up 50.0% rising
2 Barbados 0.11 LSU/ha 2023 up 22.2% rising
2 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 0.02 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged falling
2 Caribbean 0.02 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged flat
3 Antigua and Barbuda 0.1 LSU/ha 2023 up 11.1% falling
3 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 0.01 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged flat
3 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 0.01 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged flat
4 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.09 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged rising
5 Ethiopia 0.08 LSU/ha 2023 up 33.3% rising
5 Pakistan 0.08 LSU/ha 2023 up 14.3% rising
7 Samoa 0.07 LSU/ha 2023 up 16.7% rising
8 Ethiopia PDR 0.05 LSU/ha 1992 up 66.7% rising
8 Haiti 0.05 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged flat
8 Syrian Arab Republic 0 LSU/ha 2023 — volatile
8 Türkiye 0 LSU/ha 2023 — volatile
10 Grenada 0.04 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged flat
10 Gambia 0.04 LSU/ha 2023 up 33.3% volatile
12 Chad 0.03 LSU/ha 2023 — volatile
12 Dominican Republic 0.03 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged rising
12 Saint Lucia 0.03 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged volatile
12 Burkina Faso 0.03 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged volatile
12 Jamaica 0.03 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged falling
17 Bhutan 0.02 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged flat
17 Cyprus 0.02 LSU/ha 2017 unchanged falling
17 Albania 0.02 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged falling
17 Afghanistan 0.02 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged flat
17 Trinidad and Tobago 0.02 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged rising
17 Yemen 0.02 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged rising
17 Malta 0.02 LSU/ha 2017 down 33.3% volatile
17 Sudan 0.02 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged flat
17 Mexico 0.02 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged rising
17 Lesotho 0.02 LSU/ha 2023 up 100.0% rising
17 Iraq 0.02 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged falling
28 Peru 0.01 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged flat
28 Mali 0.01 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged volatile
28 Switzerland 0.01 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged volatile
28 Comoros 0.01 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged flat
28 Niger 0.01 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged rising
28 Nigeria 0.01 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged volatile
28 Morocco 0.01 LSU/ha 2023 down 50.0% falling
28 Oman 0.01 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged flat
28 Puerto Rico 0.01 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged volatile
28 Zimbabwe 0.01 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged volatile
28 Lebanon 0.01 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged falling
28 Tunisia 0.01 LSU/ha 2023 unchanged flat
28 Senegal 0.01 LSU/ha 2023 down 50.0% rising
28 Tajikistan 0.01 LSU/ha 2023 down 50.0% rising
42 Algeria 0 LSU/ha 2023 — volatile
42 Bahrain 0 LSU/ha 1992 — volatile
42 Libya 0 LSU/ha 2023 — volatile
42 China, mainland 0 LSU/ha 2023 — volatile
42 Bulgaria 0 LSU/ha 2017 down 100.0% volatile
42 Jordan 0 LSU/ha 2023 — volatile
42 Italy 0 LSU/ha 2017 — volatile
42 China 0 LSU/ha 2023 — volatile
42 Colombia 0 LSU/ha 2023 — volatile
42 Suriname 0 LSU/ha 2023 — volatile
42 Ecuador 0 LSU/ha 2023 down 100.0% falling
42 Spain 0 LSU/ha 2017 — volatile
42 Greece 0 LSU/ha 2017 — volatile
42 Portugal 0 LSU/ha 2017 — volatile
42 Guadeloupe 0 LSU/ha 2006 — volatile
42 Israel 0 LSU/ha 2023 — volatile
42 Honduras 0 LSU/ha 2023 — volatile
42 Uzbekistan 0 LSU/ha 2023 down 100.0% volatile
42 Ireland 0 LSU/ha 2017 — volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Asses — 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
163 places, 9,318 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.