Farm animal population

It was decided to use only the figures for cattle and pigs, to represent the farm animal population of the countries in the FOCUS study. These are good indicators of a country's animal production capacity. In addition most veterinary acts are carried out on this population.

Cow/pig population in millions

Country	DK	ES	FI	FR	HU	PT	RO	SI	SK	UK
Cattle x 1 000	1 110	6 411	969	20 000	669	1 250	2 871	478	593	10 517
Pigs x 1 000	12 000	11 000	1375	15 000	5096	2 350	8 260	608	1 443	5 047
Total cattle and pigs	13 100	17 411	2 344	35 000	5 765	3 600	11 131	1 086	2 036	15 564

France ranks first among the countries in the FOCUS study, with a total of 35 million cattle and pigs, with an equal number of each. Spain, the United Kingdom and Denmark have roughly the same number of animals (17, 15 and 13 million cattle and pigs respectively) despite the contrasting population and surface area of these countries. It is to be noted that the pattern for Denmark is different with a majority of pigs (12 million) over cattle. Romania ranks 5th in the study for cattle and pig population. The other countries have less than 6 million cattle and pigs: Hungary, Finland, Slovakia and Slovenia.