How Many Animals Do Humans Kill A Year

Worldwide, more 70 billion land animals are killed for food every twelvemonth. Our series of charts based on United Nations data shows the trends by type of fauna.

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

Every year, billions of animals are slaughtered by the animal agronomics industry. The exercise causes suffering on a massive scale that may be hard for people to understand. Information provided by governments and industries are oft focused on metrics like the weight of meat produced or consumed. Every bit animate being advocates, however, we care more often than not most individual lives.

Taking that perspective, guest author Bas Sanders explores more than 50 years of animal slaughter trends. This series focuses on 5 main groups of farmed animals: cows, chickens, goats, pigs and sheep, based on information pulled from the Food and Agronomics Arrangement (FAO) of the United Nations. This post provides an overview of global animal slaughter. In the species-specific posts beneath, we explore the v creature types in depth. Their datasets can be found at the bottom of each page.

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

Global Cow Slaughter Statistics And Charts
Global Craven Slaughter Statistics And Charts
Global Pig Slaughter Statistics And Charts
Global Sheep Slaughter Statistics And Charts
Global Caprine animal Slaughter Statistics And Charts

For our showtime look at the number of animals slaughtered worldwide, the interactive line chart beneath shows the 55-twelvemonth tendency (1961-2016) for the five animal groups mentioned earlier. Note that nosotros take only included the five species mentioned previously.

Patently, the main story is that chickens are – by far – the near slaughtered land animal. The divergence is so great that it makes the residual of the chart unreadable. In the updated nautical chart below, we show chickens in thousands, which allows u.s.a. to more hands analyze the results for other species.

As the chart shows, in the flow from 1961 to 2016 the number of slaughtered animals has increased for all the animal types. Over again, most of the land animals slaughtered in 2016 were chickens. This was followed past pigs, sheep, goats, and cows. It is interesting to annotation 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 country animals and the question often comes upwards regarding imports and exports. I 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. Over again, we display the number of slaughtered chickens in thousands to aid with estimation for other species.

When one compares the slaughter charts with import and export charts (which are logically similar), we again run into some testify of a correlation between slaughter and trade. We examine this farther for each of the six species in the articles linked below.

Some other question that often comes up relates to population. The number of land animals slaughtered differs widely past land, merely and so does the human population. The chart beneath shows fauna slaughter per capita, once more showing the number of slaughtered chickens in thousands.

When we adjust for population size past looking at per capita data, information technology'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/#:~:text=Worldwide%2C%20more%20than%2070%20billion,trends%20by%20type%20of%20animal.

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