How Many Animals Are Taken From The Wild Each Year

Worldwide, more than than 70 billion land animals are killed for food every yr. Our series of charts based on United Nations data shows the trends by blazon of creature.

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

Every year, billions of animals are slaughtered by the animal agronomics industry. The practice causes suffering on a massive scale that may exist difficult for people to understand. Information provided by governments and industries are ofttimes focused on metrics similar the weight of meat produced or consumed. As animal advocates, notwithstanding, we care more often than not about private lives.

Taking that perspective, guest author Bas Sanders explores more than 50 years of animal slaughter trends. This series focuses on v main groups of farmed animals: cows, chickens, goats, pigs and sheep, based on data pulled from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United nations. This post provides an overview of global animal slaughter. In the species-specific posts below, nosotros explore the 5 brute types in depth. Their datasets can exist plant at the bottom of each page.

[Note: Though the FAO is unique in being able to provide global scale statistics on animal agronomics, there are questions well-nigh the overall accuracy of their statistics. A critique of FAO stats can be constitute here.]

Global Cow Slaughter Statistics And Charts
Global Chicken Slaughter Statistics And Charts
Global Hog Slaughter Statistics And Charts
Global Sheep Slaughter Statistics And Charts
Global Caprine animal Slaughter Statistics And Charts

For our offset look at the number of animals slaughtered worldwide, the interactive line chart below shows the 55-year trend (1961-2016) for the five animal groups mentioned earlier. Notation that we take but included the five species mentioned previously.

Obviously, the main story is that chickens are – by far – the almost slaughtered land fauna. The difference is so slap-up that it makes the rest of the chart unreadable. In the updated chart beneath, nosotros prove chickens in thousands, which allows usa to more easily analyze the results for other species.

Equally the nautical chart shows, in the menstruum from 1961 to 2016 the number of slaughtered animals has increased for all the animal types. Again, most of the land animals slaughtered in 2016 were chickens. This was followed by pigs, sheep, goats, and cows. Information technology 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 "production" of farmed land animals and the question often comes up regarding imports and exports. One might suspect that the number of animals traded correlates with the number of animals slaughtered. Below we plot the trend of the number of animals imported and exported in the world. Again, we 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 similar), nosotros again see some evidence of a correlation between slaughter and trade. We examine this farther for each of the six species in the articles linked beneath.

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

When we adjust for population size by looking at per capita data, it's interesting to notation 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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