Year Livestock per 100 hectares of agricultural land area
cattle pigs horses sheep NLUa livestock unitb
pcs
1895 27.7 42.7 11.8 42.4 39.5 ..
1923 23.8 28.1 10.7 20.9 32.8 ..
1924 24.9 32.4 11.2 23.9 34.2 ..
1925 25.2 34.7 11.5 24.9 35.1 ..
1926 24.2 33.2 11.7 23.8 34.2 ..
1927 23.7 31.4 11.9 21.2 33.6 ..
1928 23.8 35.1 12.1 20.6 34.2 ..
1929 23.9 34.0 11.8 20.7 33.9 ..
1930 23.4 31.2 11.4 19.3 32.8 ..
1931 23.8 35.8 11.4 19.0 33.6 ..
1932 23.9 31.1 11.2 16.0 32.8 ..
1933 22.3 25.1 10.8 13.9 30.4 ..
1934 22.0 33.0 10.6 14.4 30.9 ..
1935 25.3 61.8 11.7 19.2 38.0 ..
1936 22.9 33.7 10.5 17.8 31.9 ..
1937 23.1 34.7 10.6 19.6 32.3 ..
1938 24.8 41.1 10.8 21.5 34.7 ..
1942 31.2 61.7 11.9 22.6 43.2 ..
1945 14.1 14.8 4.4 4.4 16.8 ..
1946 14.6 17.6 5.3 4.9 18.3 ..
1947 24.5 37.1 7.6 7.6 30.4 ..
1948 26.7 37.1 8.7 7.8 33.1 ..
1949 26.2 75.8 8.1 12.7 33.4 ..
1950 30.1 75.1 9.7 14.2 41.4 ..
1951 27.3 58.5 9.5 15.6 37.2 ..
1952 28.5 64.6 9.5 20.2 39.2 ..
1953 30.7 68.4 9.4 22.5 41.5 ..
1954 28.5 61.2 9.4 25.7 39.1 ..
1955 29.4 80.3 9.8 25.6 42.4 ..
1956 30.1 83.9 10.1 26.7 43.6 ..
1957 27.4 69.4 10.0 26.0 39.7 ..
1958 26.9 74.2 10.1 28.5 40.1 ..
1959 27.9 86.6 10.0 30.0 42.3 ..
1960 27.5 89.5 6.9 31.5 41.5 ..
1961 28.3 98.3 5.5 32.0 42.2 ..
1962 27.7 89.0 5.0 32.2 40.8 ..
1963 26.5 87.7 4.8 33.9 40.2 ..
1964 27.9 100.8 4.7 37.3 43.0 ..
1965 27.6 94.8 4.4 35.4 41.8 ..
1966 28.4 88.4 4.2 33.8 41.8 ..
1967 29.6 96.1 4.0 33.3 43.5 ..
1968 29.2 84.1 3.7 34.7 41.2 ..
1969 27.8 82.8 3.4 32.7 40.4 ..
1970 27.8 106.3 3.2 33.7 43.5 ..
1971 27.5 110.8 3.1 30.0 42.6 ..
1972 27.6 100.2 2.7 28.3 40.7 ..
1973 28.2 117.2 2.5 26.5 43.1 ..
1974 29.7 122.3 2.4 29.8 45.1 ..
1975 28.1 102.7 2.3 30.1 41.5 ..
1976 27.9 116.2 2.2 34.8 43.5 ..
1977 29.0 116.7 2.1 38.9 44.8 ..
1978 29.4 119.6 2.0 42.7 45.7 ..
1979 28.9 125.6 1.9 44.0 46.0 ..
1980 28.9 125.7 1.8 46.6 46.2 ..
1981 29.5 125.7 1.7 47.6 46.7 ..
1982 29.2 137.3 1.7 48.3 47.9 ..
1983 29.0 149.8 1.7 45.3 48.7 ..
1984 29.0 140.9 1.6 43.2 47.4 ..
1985 27.0 126.6 1.5 37.7 43.7 ..
1986 26.4 133.2 1.5 35.8 44.2 ..
1987 25.6 126.2 1.4 35.9 42.5 ..
1988 26.0 128.2 1.2 34.1 42.6 ..
1989 24.6 118.1 1.2 31.9 40.0 ..
1990 24.3 123.6 1.2 28.8 39.6 ..
1991 22.0 92.8 1.2 28.0 33.5 ..
1992 18.9 87.4 1.2 28.6 30.7 ..
1993 16.3 81.6 1.2 20.4 26.9 ..
1994 14.9 71.2 1.3 15.5 24.7 ..
1995 15.0 81.4 1.1 15.8 25.7 ..
1996 14.7 85.5 1.1 14.1 25.5 ..
1997 14.1 79.6 1.2 13.9 24.5 ..
1998 14.1 88.5 .. 14.7 25.6 ..
1999 13.9 86.2 1.0 15.1 24.8 ..
2000 13.8 82.6 1.3 19.3 25.3 ..
2001 13.3 82.2 1.0 19.4 25.2 ..
2002 13.1 86.6 1.1 18.8 25.4 ..
2003 12.6 83.8 1.1 22.1 25.3 ..
2004 12.3 69.2 1.1 23.8 23.2 37.8
2005 12.1 65.8 1.2 24.0 22.7 37.0
2006 12.1 68.6 1.0 22.3 22.6 37.4
2007 12.1 66.7 1.0 21.2 22.3 36.0
2008 12.1 58.4 1.0 21.3 21.4 34.2
2009 12.1 56.1 1.1 21.1 21.2 33.1
2010 12.8 59.3 1.2 22.1 22.7 35.9
2011 13.1 57.0 1.4 21.0 22.7 34.3
2012 14.2 56.0 1.4 22.2 23.4 34.9
2013 14.7 56.3 1.2 22.7 23.5 35.2
2014 15.0 58.6 1.1 22.2 .. 35.7
2015 15.3 58.4 1.1 22.3 .. 36.2
2016 16.0 54.3 1.0 21.3 .. 35.4
2017 16.3 52.1 1.0 21.6 .. 35.4
2018 16.6 53.7 1.0 20.7 .. 35.2
2019 17.1 49.6 1.0 20.0 .. 34.2
2020c 18.9 57.9 0.7 19.2 .. 37.6
2021 17.9 54.0 0.7 17.6 .. 36.3
2022 17.4 50.3 0.8 17.2 .. 34.1
2023 16.9 51.0 0.7 17.7 .. 33.5

Footnotes

aNLU = National Livestock Unit.
bData calculated according to the methodology valid from 2020. See Methodology.
cDue to methodological changes only units reaching farm threshold are included from 2020.

Explanation of symbols

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Break in series (limited comparability).
green number
Revised datum.
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