Pigs
represent the largest number of livestock across the European Union at around
150 million pigs (cows are second at 89 million). The Financial conducted a
study on the number of pigs per inhabitant across European Union (EU) countries
in 2017 – the pigs-to-people ratio.
Almost
40% of pigs are in two EU countries: Spain (30.1 million pigs) and Germany
(27.6 million pigs). Following these two countries are France (13.1 million
pigs), Denmark (12.8 million pigs), the Netherlands (12.3 million pigs), and Poland
(11.9 million pigs).
Pigs
outnumber people in Denmark by slightly more than two-to-one (215 pigs per 100
inhabitants in 2016). Denmark is the only EU country where this is the case.
Other
pig-to-people country ratios are: the Netherlands (70 pigs per 100
inhabitants), Spain (63 pigs per 100 inhabitants), and Belgium (54:100).
Across
the EU, pigs are scarcer in Greece and the United Kingdom (both at 7 pigs per
100 inhabitants), and Bulgaria and Malta (both at 9 pigs per 100 inhabitants).
MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the author of:- Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom
(2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest
Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The
Sudan Curse (2009).
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