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Buffalo — Share in total livestock 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
69
Highest
29.99 %LSU
India
Lowest
0 %LSU
Slovenia
Median
0.31 %LSU
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
4,258

What the numbers show

Buffalo — Share in total livestock is currently reported for 69 countries. The highest value is 29.99 %LSU in India; the lowest is 0 %LSU in Slovenia.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.31 %LSU, and the mean is 4.13 %LSU.

Over the past decade 19 countries rose and 29 fell. The largest increase was in Bulgaria (up 175.0%), and the largest decrease in Albania (down 100.0%).

Buffalo — Share in total livestock: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 India 29.99 %LSU 2023 down 1.4% rising
2 Pakistan 26.75 %LSU 2023 down 10.9% rising
3 Nepal 24.28 %LSU 2023 down 25.6% rising
4 Timor-Leste 23.71 %LSU 2023 up 9.9% falling
5 Philippines 22.78 %LSU 2023 down 1.9% falling
6 Lao People's Democratic Republic 19.94 %LSU 2023 down 26.8% falling
7 Sri Lanka 16.98 %LSU 2023 down 11.5% falling
8 Cambodia 16.51 %LSU 2023 up 6.2% falling
9 Bhutan 16.44 %LSU 2023 up 50.1% volatile
10 Egypt 14.6 %LSU 2023 down 50.9% falling
11 Myanmar 11.98 %LSU 2023 down 6.8% falling
12 Viet Nam 8.84 %LSU 2023 down 29.7% falling
13 China, mainland 8.28 %LSU 2023 up 14.8% falling
14 China 8.2 %LSU 2023 up 14.8% falling
15 Thailand 7.32 %LSU 2023 down 28.7% volatile
16 Iraq 4.27 %LSU 2023 up 22.0% rising
17 Bangladesh 3.9 %LSU 2023 down 5.6% rising
18 Italy 3.34 %LSU 2023 up 20.1% volatile
19 Azerbaijan 2.97 %LSU 2023 down 54.5% falling
20 Bulgaria 2.2 %LSU 2023 up 175.0% volatile
21 Georgia 1.77 %LSU 2023 up 32.1% falling
22 Indonesia 1.28 %LSU 2023 down 46.4% volatile
23 Malaysia 1.27 %LSU 2023 down 42.8% volatile
24 Serbia and Montenegro 1.06 %LSU 2005 up 135.6% rising
25 Trinidad and Tobago 0.88 %LSU 2023 down 6.4% volatile
26 Türkiye 0.55 %LSU 2023 up 19.6% volatile
27 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 0.5 %LSU 2023 down 19.4% falling
28 Micronesia (Federated States of) 0.48 %LSU 2023 down 2.0% rising
29 Tajikistan 0.46 %LSU 2023 down 14.8% falling
30 Yugoslav SFR 0.38 %LSU 1991 down 29.6% falling
31 Brunei Darussalam 0.33 %LSU 2023 down 61.2% volatile
31 Hungary 0.33 %LSU 2023 up 17.9% rising
33 Micronesia 0.32 %LSU 2023 down 3.0% falling
33 China, Hong Kong SAR 0.32 %LSU 2023 down 8.6% volatile
35 Romania 0.31 %LSU 2023 up 3.3% flat
36 USSR 0.22 %LSU 1991 up 22.2% falling
37 North Macedonia 0.19 %LSU 2023 up 26.7% rising
38 Greece 0.16 %LSU 2023 up 166.7% volatile
38 Syrian Arab Republic 0.16 %LSU 2023 down 5.9% rising
40 OECD 0.1 %LSU 2023 up 11.1% falling
41 Armenia 0.08 %LSU 2023 up 14.3% rising
42 Kazakhstan 0.07 %LSU 2023 down 30.0% falling
42 Singapore 0.07 %LSU 1991 down 30.0% volatile
44 China, Taiwan Province of 0.06 %LSU 2023 down 33.3% volatile
45 Germany 0.05 %LSU 2023 up 150.0% rising
46 Caribbean 0.03 %LSU 2023 unchanged falling
47 Russian Federation 0.01 %LSU 2023 down 50.0% falling
47 Jordan 0.01 %LSU 2023 unchanged volatile
47 Poland 0.01 %LSU 2023 — volatile
50 Slovakia 0 %LSU 2023 — flat
50 Ireland 0 %LSU 2023 — flat
50 Albania 0 %LSU 2023 down 100.0% volatile
50 Brazil 0 %LSU 2023 — flat
50 Colombia 0 %LSU 2023 — flat
50 Cyprus 0 %LSU 2023 — flat
50 Czechia 0 %LSU 2023 — flat
50 Denmark 0 %LSU 2023 — flat
50 Spain 0 %LSU 2023 down 100.0% volatile
50 Estonia 0 %LSU 2023 — flat
50 Finland 0 %LSU 2023 — flat
50 Sweden 0 %LSU 2022 — flat
50 Lithuania 0 %LSU 2023 — flat
50 Luxembourg 0 %LSU 2023 — flat
50 Latvia 0 %LSU 2023 — flat
50 Malta 0 %LSU 2023 — flat
50 Mauritius 0 %LSU 2023 — flat
50 Portugal 0 %LSU 2023 — flat
50 Suriname 0 %LSU 2023 — flat
50 Slovenia 0 %LSU 2023 — flat

Regions and income groups

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

About this data

Indicator
Buffalo — Share in total livestock
Unit
%LSU
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
95 places, 4,258 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.