Chickens — Livestock units per agricultural land area in OECD
OECD: Chickens — Livestock units per agricultural land area was 0.04 LSU/ha in 2023. ▲ Rising
Chickens — Livestock units per agricultural land area in OECD, 1961–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in LSU/ha.
Analysis
OECD recorded 0.04 LSU/ha for chickens — livestock units per agricultural land area in 2023. That is the highest value across all 63 years on record.
That represents a change of unchanged over ten years.
Over the whole period, chickens — livestock units per agricultural land area in OECD peaked at 0.04 LSU/ha in 2010 and was at its lowest, 0.01 LSU/ha, in 1961.
OECD ranks 110th of 189 countries 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 | 0.0156 LSU/ha | 0.01 LSU/ha | 0.02 LSU/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 0.02 LSU/ha | 0.02 LSU/ha | 0.02 LSU/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 0.02 LSU/ha | 0.02 LSU/ha | 0.02 LSU/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 0.028 LSU/ha | 0.02 LSU/ha | 0.03 LSU/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 0.03 LSU/ha | 0.03 LSU/ha | 0.03 LSU/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.038 LSU/ha | 0.03 LSU/ha | 0.04 LSU/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.04 LSU/ha | 0.04 LSU/ha | 0.04 LSU/ha | 4 |
Countries ranked near OECD
More environment data for OECD
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Temperature change 2.18 °C (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.312 °C (2025)
- Agricultural land — Share in Land area 34.15 % (2024)
- Permanent crops — Area 24,537 1000 ha (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 30.73 % (2024)
- Arable land — Area 357,807 1000 ha (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Land area 11.21 % (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Agricultural land 32.83 % (2024)
- Cropland — Area 382,348 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is chickens — livestock units per agricultural land area in OECD?
- Chickens — livestock units per agricultural land area in OECD was 0.04 LSU/ha in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest chickens — livestock units per agricultural land area recorded in OECD?
- The highest recorded value was 0.04 LSU/ha in 2010.
- What is the lowest chickens — livestock units per agricultural land area recorded in OECD?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.01 LSU/ha in 1961.
- How does OECD rank for chickens — livestock units per agricultural land area?
- OECD ranks 110th out of 189 countries with data for 2023.
- Is chickens — livestock units per agricultural land area rising or falling in OECD?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this OECD data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Chickens — 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.