Countries by continents. Number of reporting countries is given in square brackets.
Census year
Total number of holdings
Cattle Holdings reporting Number
Percent of total
Number of head Total
Average per holding reporting
TOTAL [40]
AFRICA [5]
Botswana
93
101 434
54 349
53.6
1 820 400
33.5
82
84 660
58 340
68.9
2 979 000
51.1
69
48 014
33 765
70.3
1 444 000
42.8
Lesotho
89/90
229 300
125 000
54.5
523 000
4.2
70
187 421
93 669
50.0
552 000
5.9
Reunion
89
15 198
3 069
20.2
18 601
6.1
81
20 788
4 350
20.9
19 355
4.4
72/73
39 111
8 251
21.1
19 000
2.3
Swaziland
73 745
36 659
49.7
551 167
15.0
72
39 377
23 400
59.4
562 000
24.0
Zambia
90
520 520
136 668
26.3
5 181 014
37.9
70/71
766 900
137 500
17.9
2 799 000
20.4
NORTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA [8]
Bahamas
94
1 760
34
1.9
769
22.6
78
4 246
1.7
1 250
17.4
Canada
91
280 043
145 747
52.0
12 972 038
89.0
318 361
185 173
58.2
13 501 904
72.9
71
366 128
248 757
67.9
13 278 000
53.4
Guadalupe
16 530
10 135
61.3
65 302
6.4
18 957
12 502
65.9
82 113
6.6
Martinique
16 038
7 420
46.3
35 467
4.8
19 573
8 629
44.1
41 285
Panama
213 895
39 172
18.3
1 399 487
35.7
153 194
33 543
21.9
1 426 003
42.5
115 364
30 856
26.7
1 259 000
40.8
Puerto Rico
87
20 245
7 218
293 244
40.6
31 837
14 281
44.9
358 399
25.1
32 687
15 129
317 000
21.0
U.S.A.
2 087 759
1 176 346
56.3
95 847 299
81.5
2 478 642
1 467 944
59.2
105 715 399
72.0
2 730 250
1 719 403
63.0
106 381 000
61.9
Virgin Islands (US)
267
95
35.6
5 078
53.5
378
119
31.5
6 126
51.5
212
53
25.0
6 000
113.2
SOUTH AMERICA [4]
Brazil
85
5 834 779
2 664 128
45.7
127 643 292
47.9
80
5 159 851
2 477 652
48.0
118 085 872
47.7
4 924 019
2 211 376
78 562 000
35.5
French Guiana
4 491
341
7.6
15 662
45.9
2 209
237
10.7
7 253
30.6
Paraguay
307 221
229 478
74.7
7 626 617
33.2
248 930
167 546
67.3
6 457 329
38..5
Peru
1 756 141
846 829
48.2
4 495 263
5.3
71/72
1 390 877
698 926
50.3
3 821 000
5..5
ASIA [4]
Israel
25 448
1 956
7.7
339 119
173.4
51 654
4 436
8.6
291 798
65.8
40 210
8 164
20.3
236 000
28.9
Nepal
92
2 736 050
2 067 141
75.6
7 359 326
3.6
2 193 956
1 261 916
57.5
6 501 577
5.2
Philippines
4 610 041
899 353
19.5
1 991 022
2.2
3 420 323
583 931
17.1
1 495 846
2.6
2 354 469
458 662
1 564 000
3.4
Thailand
5 647 490
1 263 431
22.4
8 336 874
4 018 427
886 804
22.1
4 140 981
4.7
EUROPE [14]
Austria
273 210
139 951
51.2
2 538 766
18.1
302 579
178 980
2 536 400
14.2
362 216
244 600
67.5
2 416 000
9.9
Belgium
87 180
58 205
66.8
3 248 780
55.8
79
119 277
82 503
69.2
3 058 163
37.1
184 006
127 907
69.5
2 887 000
Denmark
81 267
37 130
2 221 485
59.8
122 722
65 678
3 035 396
46.2
140 197
103 465
73.8
2 840 000
27.4
France
88
1 016 755
503 659
49.5
21 217 251
42.1
1 262 672
735 902
58.3
23 213 004
1 587 643
1 051 514
66.2
21 400 000
Germany (2)
566 900
287 100
50.6
15 731 000
54.8
850 006
537 116
63.2
14 937 682
27.8
1 074 637
793 425
14 674 000
18.5
Greece
802 400
40 100
5.0
520 200
13.0
998 876
137 060
13.7
824 056
6.0
1 047 260
243 340
23.2
836 000
Italy
3 023 344
319 566
10.6
7 673 484
3 270 560
500 940
15.3
8 527 000
17.0
3 607 262
962 082
8 696 000
9.0
Netherlands
127 367
66 380
52.1
4 771 641
71.9
148 674
90 946
61.2
5 148 647
56.6
184 613
130 842
70.9
4 314 000
33.0
Norway
99 382
37 584
37.8
949 369
25.3
125 302
53 793
42.9
868 843
16.2
154 977
82 465
53.2
973 000
11.8
Poland
3 783 000
2 667 015
70.5
10 048 929
3.8
3 398 959
2 537 978
8 002 000
3.2
Portugal
598 742
219 550
36.7
1 401 206
783 944
268 622
34.3
1 165 151
4.3
Spain
2 284 944
328 130
14.4
4 800 129
14.6
2 375 327
452 751
19.1
4 552 072
10.1
Switzerland
108 296
66 249
1 865 727
28.2
125 274
76 423
61.0
1 932 897
152 859
109 352
71.5
1 753 000
16.0
United Kingdom
244 205
136 708
56.0
11 751 000
86.0
268 560
183 940
68.5
13 539 370
73.6
326 698
227 558
69.7
12 581 000
55.3
OCEANIA [5]
American Samoa
384
4
1.0
179
44.8
1 331
14
1.1
6.3
1 923
15
0.8
200
13.3
Australia
129 540
75 105
58.0
23 191 000
308.8
249 485
169 931
68.1
24 357 000
143.3
Fiji
95 400
42 789
280 221
6.5
68/69
33 521
17 276
140 000
8.1
Guam
351
56
317
5.7
1 999
270
13.5
1 495
5.5
1 121
284
3 000
Notrthern Mariana Isl.
36
30.3
4 513
125.4
299
113
8 339
(1) Includes only countries for which data for the 1990 census round, and also for the 1980 and/or 1970 census round were available
(2) Data for 71 and 79 exclude Germany, Dem. Rep. of.