Sheep and Goats — Livestock units per agricultural land area in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs): Sheep and Goats — Livestock units per agricultural land area was 0.09 LSU/ha in 2023. ▲ Rising
Sheep and Goats — Livestock units per agricultural land area in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), 1961–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in LSU/ha.
Analysis
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) recorded 0.09 LSU/ha for sheep and goats — livestock units per agricultural land area in 2023. That is the highest value across all 63 years on record.
That represents a change of up 28.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sheep and goats — livestock units per agricultural land area in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) peaked at 0.09 LSU/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 0.03 LSU/ha, in 1961.
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 5th of 31 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 63 years of available data.
Sheep and Goats — Livestock units per agricultural land area in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), year by year
| Year | LSU/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 0.03 LSU/ha | — |
| 1962 | 0.03 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 0.03 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 0.03 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 0.03 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 0.03 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 0.03 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 0.03 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 0.03 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 0.03 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 0.03 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 0.03 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 0.03 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 0.03 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 0.03 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 0.03 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 0.03 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 0.03 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 0.03 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 0.03 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 0.04 LSU/ha | +33.3% |
| 1982 | 0.04 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 0.04 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 0.04 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 0.04 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 0.04 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 0.04 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 0.04 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 0.04 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 0.04 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1991 | 0.04 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1992 | 0.04 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1993 | 0.04 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1994 | 0.04 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1995 | 0.04 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 0.04 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1997 | 0.05 LSU/ha | +25.0% |
| 1998 | 0.05 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 1999 | 0.05 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2000 | 0.05 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2001 | 0.05 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2002 | 0.05 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 0.05 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 0.06 LSU/ha | +20.0% |
| 2005 | 0.06 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 0.06 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 0.06 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 0.06 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 0.06 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 0.07 LSU/ha | +16.7% |
| 2011 | 0.07 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 0.07 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 0.07 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 0.07 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 0.07 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.08 LSU/ha | +14.3% |
| 2017 | 0.08 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.08 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.09 LSU/ha | +12.5% |
| 2020 | 0.09 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 0.09 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.09 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.09 LSU/ha | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 0.03 LSU/ha | 0.03 LSU/ha | 0.03 LSU/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 0.03 LSU/ha | 0.03 LSU/ha | 0.03 LSU/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 0.039 LSU/ha | 0.03 LSU/ha | 0.04 LSU/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 0.043 LSU/ha | 0.04 LSU/ha | 0.05 LSU/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 0.056 LSU/ha | 0.05 LSU/ha | 0.06 LSU/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.075 LSU/ha | 0.07 LSU/ha | 0.09 LSU/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.09 LSU/ha | 0.09 LSU/ha | 0.09 LSU/ha | 4 |
Countries ranked near Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
- 2 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 0.15 LSU/ha compare
- 2 Syrian Arab Republic 0.15 LSU/ha compare
- 2 United Arab Emirates 1.12 LSU/ha compare
- 3 Bahrain 1.04 LSU/ha compare
- 4 Kuwait 0.64 LSU/ha compare
- 4 Türkiye 0.14 LSU/ha compare
- 5 Cyprus 0.48 LSU/ha compare
- 5 Micronesia (Federated States of) 0.1 LSU/ha compare
- 6 Grenada 0.44 LSU/ha compare
- 6 United Republic of Tanzania 0.09 LSU/ha compare
- 7 Antigua and Barbuda 0.4 LSU/ha compare
- 7 Nepal 0.4 LSU/ha compare
More environment data for Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Temperature change 1.36 °C (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.238 °C (2025)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Value US$ 299,875 million USD (2024)
- Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Agricultural Use 2.89 million t (2024)
- Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Export quantity 316,092 t (2024)
- Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Import quantity 1.96 million t (2024)
- Agricultural land — Area 863,406 1000 ha (2024)
- Agricultural land — Share in Land area 43 % (2024)
- Cropland — Area 224,322 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sheep and goats — livestock units per agricultural land area in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Sheep and goats — livestock units per agricultural land area in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) was 0.09 LSU/ha in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sheep and goats — livestock units per agricultural land area recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 0.09 LSU/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest sheep and goats — livestock units per agricultural land area recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.03 LSU/ha in 1961.
- How does Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) rank for sheep and goats — livestock units per agricultural land area?
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 5th out of 31 groups with data for 2023.
- Is sheep and goats — livestock units per agricultural land area rising or falling in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 28.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sheep and Goats — 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.