How Many Animals Die In A Year

Worldwide, more than lxx billion land animals are killed for food every yr. Our series of charts based on United nations data shows the trends by blazon of animal.

Please see our Global Animal Slaughter Statistics & Charts: 2020 Update here.

Every year, billions of animals are slaughtered past the animate being agriculture industry. The practice causes suffering on a massive scale that may be difficult for people to sympathize. Information provided by governments and industries are frequently focused on metrics like the weight of meat produced or consumed. As animal advocates, nonetheless, nosotros care by and large well-nigh private lives.

Taking that perspective, guest writer Bas Sanders explores more than 50 years of fauna slaughter trends. This series focuses on five main groups of farmed animals: cows, chickens, goats, pigs and sheep, based on data pulled from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the Un. This post provides an overview of global animal slaughter. In the species-specific posts beneath, we explore the five animal types in depth. Their datasets tin be found at the bottom of each page.

[Note: Though the FAO is unique in beingness able to provide global scale statistics on animal agriculture, there are questions about the overall accuracy of their statistics. A critique of FAO stats tin can be found here.]

Global Cow Slaughter Statistics And Charts
Global Chicken Slaughter Statistics And Charts
Global Pig Slaughter Statistics And Charts
Global Sheep Slaughter Statistics And Charts
Global Goat Slaughter Statistics And Charts

For our first await at the number of animals slaughtered worldwide, the interactive line chart beneath shows the 55-year trend (1961-2016) for the 5 creature groups mentioned earlier. Note that nosotros have only included the 5 species mentioned previously.

Plain, the main story is that chickens are – by far – the most slaughtered land animate being. The difference is so slap-up that it makes the rest of the chart unreadable. In the updated chart below, we show chickens in thousands, which allows us to more easily analyze the results for other species.

As the chart shows, in the period from 1961 to 2016 the number of slaughtered animals has increased for all the fauna types. Again, most of the land animals slaughtered in 2016 were chickens. This was followed by pigs, sheep, goats, and cows. It is interesting to note that the number of slaughtered goats became larger than the number of slaughtered cows during the mid 1990s.

The FAO data are for domestic "product" of farmed land animals and the question oft comes up regarding imports and exports. Ane might suspect that the number of animals traded correlates with the number of animals slaughtered. Below nosotros plot the tendency of the number of animals imported and exported in the world. Over again, nosotros display the number of slaughtered chickens in thousands to help with interpretation for other species.

When one compares the slaughter charts with import and export charts (which are logically like), we again run across some prove of a correlation between slaughter and merchandise. We examine this farther for each of the vi species in the manufactures linked below.

Another question that often comes up relates to population. The number of country animals slaughtered differs widely by state, only so does the human population. The chart beneath shows animal slaughter per capita, again showing the number of slaughtered chickens in thousands.

When we conform for population size past looking at per capita data, it's interesting to note that the number of cows and sheep slaughtered per person decreases over the years (even though the actual number of slaughtered animals increased). The number of pigs, goats, and chickens slaughtered increased over time.

Source: https://faunalytics.org/global-animal-slaughter-statistics-and-charts/

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