Cattle — Livestock units per agricultural land area in Oceania
Oceania: Cattle — Livestock units per agricultural land area was 0.1 LSU/ha in 2023. ▲ Rising
Cattle — Livestock units per agricultural land area in Oceania, 1961–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in LSU/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for cattle — livestock units per agricultural land area in Oceania is 0.1 LSU/ha, measured in 2023. That is the highest value across all 63 years on record.
That represents a change of up 25.0% on the previous year and up 11.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cattle — livestock units per agricultural land area in Oceania peaked at 0.1 LSU/ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 0.04 LSU/ha, in 1961.
Oceania ranks 30th of 43 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 63 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 0.0489 LSU/ha | 0.04 LSU/ha | 0.05 LSU/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 0.066 LSU/ha | 0.06 LSU/ha | 0.07 LSU/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 0.058 LSU/ha | 0.05 LSU/ha | 0.06 LSU/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 0.066 LSU/ha | 0.06 LSU/ha | 0.07 LSU/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 0.077 LSU/ha | 0.07 LSU/ha | 0.09 LSU/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.089 LSU/ha | 0.08 LSU/ha | 0.09 LSU/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.085 LSU/ha | 0.08 LSU/ha | 0.1 LSU/ha | 4 |
Countries ranked near Oceania
More environment data for Oceania
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -3.36 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -4.4 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Temperature change 1.36 °C (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.316 °C (2025)
- Total fibre furnish — Production 5.00 million t (2024)
- Recovered paper — Production 2.98 million t (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Land area 40.22 % (2024)
- Agricultural land — Value of agricultural production (Int. $) per Area 199.29 USD_PPP/ha (2024)
- Agricultural land — Share in Land area 44.22 % (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cattle — livestock units per agricultural land area in Oceania?
- Cattle — livestock units per agricultural land area in Oceania was 0.1 LSU/ha in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cattle — livestock units per agricultural land area recorded in Oceania?
- The highest recorded value was 0.1 LSU/ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest cattle — livestock units per agricultural land area recorded in Oceania?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.04 LSU/ha in 1961.
- How does Oceania rank for cattle — livestock units per agricultural land area?
- Oceania ranks 30th out of 43 groups with data for 2023.
- Is cattle — livestock units per agricultural land area rising or falling in Oceania?
- Over the last ten years it is up 11.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Oceania data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Cattle — Livestock units per agricultural land area. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.