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The 10 Countries With the Most Pigs per Person |
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Today is World Animal Day. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization counted 962 million pigs on Earth in 2024. Denmark keeps the most per person: 11.6 million pigs for 6 million people. China owns 44% of the world’s pigs and ranks eighth. |
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Source: FAO, FAOSTAT livestock stocks and population, 2024 data (updated Dec 15, 2025). Officially reported counts only. Pigs per 1,000 people. |
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| What's Surprising |
Denmark has 5.98 million people and 11.58 million pigs. That is 1.94 pigs per Dane. The herd is only a snapshot. Counting slaughter and live exports, Denmark produced 30.8 million pigs in 2024, about five for every resident. In 2020 the herd was 13.4 million.
Laos is third, the only Asian country in the top five. Its figure is also the shakiest. The Lao government’s own 2018 count was almost a fifth below FAO’s. On that basis Laos would still rank fourth.
China has 427 million pigs, 44% of every pig on Earth. Spread over 1.42 billion people, that is 301 per 1,000. Eighth place. The herd is 11% smaller than in 2014, after African swine fever swept Chinese farms in 2018 and 2019.
| What's Not Surprising |
Europe holds seven of the top ten. Spain grew its herd 30% in ten years, to 34.6 million. Germany’s fell 25%, to 21.3 million. Spain now keeps 26% of all the EU’s pigs. Belgium and the Netherlands, two of Europe’s most crowded countries, keep roughly a pig for every two people.
Diet sets the floor. Pork is forbidden in Islam and Judaism. India keeps 6 pigs per 1,000 people, the UK 68. The world average is 118.
Small islands are hard to count. FAO’s models put Tuvalu at 1.5 pigs a person, enough for second place. Every Tuvalu figure since 2014 is an FAO estimate, so we left it off.
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1.94 Pigs per person in Denmark: 11.58 million pigs, 5.98 million people. No other country with an official count tops one pig per person. |
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44% China’s share of the world’s 962 million pigs. Per person, it ranks only eighth. |
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30.8 million Pigs Denmark produced in 2024, counting slaughter and live exports. About five for every Dane, every year. |
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13 million Spain’s lead over Germany: 34.6 million pigs to 21.3 million. Ten years ago, Germany led by 1.8 million. |
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1994 The last time African swine fever hit Spain before November 2025. This time it has reached wild boar near Barcelona, not farms. |
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African swine fever returned to Spain in November 2025, in wild boar near Barcelona. By August, 375 boar had tested positive. No farm pig has. One farm case would hit the exports of Europe’s biggest herd. FAO’s 2025 livestock counts are due around December. From 2030, Denmark taxes livestock emissions, pigs included. We’ll be watching. |
