Major livestock types — Livestock units per agricultural land area in Eritrea
Eritrea: Major livestock types — Livestock units per agricultural land area was 0.24 LSU/ha in 2023. ▲ Rising
Major livestock types — Livestock units per agricultural land area in Eritrea, 1993–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in LSU/ha.
Analysis
Eritrea recorded 0.24 LSU/ha for major livestock types — livestock units per agricultural land area in 2023. That is the highest value across all 31 years on record.
That represents a change of up 4.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, major livestock types — livestock units per agricultural land area in Eritrea peaked at 0.24 LSU/ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 0.16 LSU/ha, in 1993.
That places Eritrea 155th out of 194 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 31 years of available data.
Major livestock types — Livestock units per agricultural land area in Eritrea, year by year
| Year | LSU/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 0.16 LSU/ha | — |
| 1994 | 0.16 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1995 | 0.16 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 0.19 LSU/ha | +18.8% |
| 1997 | 0.21 LSU/ha | +10.5% |
| 1998 | 0.22 LSU/ha | +4.8% |
| 1999 | 0.22 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2000 | 0.23 LSU/ha | +4.5% |
| 2001 | 0.21 LSU/ha | -8.7% |
| 2002 | 0.21 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 0.21 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 0.21 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 0.22 LSU/ha | +4.8% |
| 2006 | 0.21 LSU/ha | -4.5% |
| 2007 | 0.22 LSU/ha | +4.8% |
| 2008 | 0.22 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 0.22 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 0.22 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 0.22 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 0.22 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 0.23 LSU/ha | +4.5% |
| 2014 | 0.23 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 0.23 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.23 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 0.23 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.23 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.23 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.24 LSU/ha | +4.3% |
| 2021 | 0.24 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.24 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.24 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.1886 LSU/ha | 0.16 LSU/ha | 0.22 LSU/ha | 7 |
| 2000s | 0.216 LSU/ha | 0.21 LSU/ha | 0.23 LSU/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.227 LSU/ha | 0.22 LSU/ha | 0.23 LSU/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.24 LSU/ha | 0.24 LSU/ha | 0.24 LSU/ha | 4 |
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- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -12.24 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -10.14 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 57.1 % change on previous year (2023)
- Standard Deviation 0.531 °C (2023)
- Temperature change 0.012 °C (2023)
- Paper and paperboard — Import quantity, annual growth rate 140.78 % change on previous year (2024)
- Paper and paperboard — Import quantity, per unit of GDP 0 t per US$ of GDP (2011)
- Paper and paperboard — Import quantity, per capita 0.0004 t per person (2024)
- Paper and paperboard — Import value, annual growth rate 29.48 % change on previous year (2024)
- Paper and paperboard — Import value, per unit of GDP 0 1000 USD per US$ of GDP (2011)
Frequently asked questions
- What is major livestock types — livestock units per agricultural land area in Eritrea?
- Major livestock types — livestock units per agricultural land area in Eritrea was 0.24 LSU/ha in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest major livestock types — livestock units per agricultural land area recorded in Eritrea?
- The highest recorded value was 0.24 LSU/ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest major livestock types — livestock units per agricultural land area recorded in Eritrea?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.16 LSU/ha in 1993.
- How does Eritrea rank for major livestock types — livestock units per agricultural land area?
- Eritrea ranks 155th out of 194 countries with data for 2023.
- Is major livestock types — livestock units per agricultural land area rising or falling in Eritrea?
- Over the last ten years it is up 4.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Eritrea data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Major livestock types — 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.