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Pig population in Europe reached 150 million animals officialy registered

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The largest livestock is located in Spain but there are other countries that present interesting details in statistics.

Posted on Mar 03 ,08:00

Pig population in Europe reached 150 million animals officialy registered

The latest Eurostat report shows that EU pig livestock has reached a number of 150 million head with Spain, Germany and France leading the top of producers.
Pigs also represent the largest livestock category in the EU, ahead of bovines who stand at about 89 million head.
Almost 40% of the EU's pigs were located in two Member States: Spain (30.1 million pigs) and Germany (27.6 million pigs). France (13.1 million), Denmark (12.8 million), the Netherlands (12.3 million) and Poland (11.9 million) also had large pig populations.
From this point of view, Denmark stands for a hard-to-reach record, the ratio pigs/people being more than two to one: 215 pigs per 100 inhabitants in 2016. It is the only EU Member State in this situation but the ratio is also high in the Netherlands (70 pigs per 100 inhabitants), in Spain (63:100) and in Belgium (54:100). Pigs are relatively scarcer in Greece and the United Kingdom (both 7 pigs per 100 inhabitants) and Bulgaria and Malta (both 9:100), informs the Eurostat report.

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