Livestock Density

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: livestock-density-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Livestock Density: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2023	Distinct	Empty	Spread
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	188	0
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	188	0
Livestock units per hectare of agricultural landlivestock_densityHeadline	The headline figure: Livestock units per hectare of agricultural land.	Number · up to 2 decimals	0.02Republic of the Congo43.97Singaporemiddle 0.54	115	0
Total livestock unitslivestock_unitsMeasure	Total livestock in FAO livestock units, which weight each species by its feed requirement so cattle, sheep and poultry can be added together.	Number · up to 2 decimals	656Nauru266,633,967Chinamiddle 2,300,898	188	0
Share of total livestock (%)share_of_totalMeasure	Share of the country's total livestock units that this figure covers, in %; as FAO's all-species total, it covers the whole herd.	Number · whole numbers	100188 share it100188 share itmiddle 100	1	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

The newest 12 of 63 years.

Not in this dataset · 36 places this site covers

FAO gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaArubaBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGuamIsle of ManKosovoLiechtensteinMacauMaldivesMarshall IslandsMonacoMontserratNew CaledoniaNiueNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPalestinePuerto RicoSaint MartinSan MarinoSint MaartenSomalilandTurks and Caicos IslandsUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

   fao.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Livestock Density 2023

   Environment_LivestockPatterns_E_All_Data_(Normalized).zip

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 11, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   63 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as livestock-density-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/livestock-density

FAOSTAT's Livestock Patterns domain. The all-species total is FAO's own published figure, not a sum computed here.

• Charted

  Livestock Density by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Food & Agriculture
  • Environment & Sustainability

• Near neighbours

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