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Number of cattle in Samoa

Number of cattle in Samoa was 38,349 head in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. That is up 0.8% from 2023. That is the 162nd highest of 190 countries in 2024.

2024, head38,349 Estimated
Change on 2023+0.8%
Rank162nd of 190Countries ranked
Series high56,5042015
Series low15,7361961

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Number of cattle in Samoa, 1961 to 2024

10K20K30K40K50K60K19611971198119912001201120241961: 15,736 head1962: 16,000 head1963: 17,770 head1964: 17,785 head1965: 17,924 head1966: 17,538 head1967: 18,779 head1968: 19,429 head1969: 19,491 head1970: 19,774 head1971: 20,068 head1972: 20,375 head1973: 20,983 head1974: 22,790 head1975: 25,056 head1976: 26,011 head1977: 25,559 head1978: 26,293 head1979: 27,983 head1980: 26,284 head1981: 24,564 head1982: 22,957 head1983: 21,456 head1984: 20,052 head1985: 20,000 head1986: 22,000 head1987: 24,096 head1988: 24,096 head1989: 24,096 head1990: 24,000 head1991: 25,000 head1992: 24,000 head1993: 25,000 head1994: 26,000 head1995: 26,000 head1996: 26,000 head1997: 26,000 head1998: 27,000 head1999: 27,883 head2000: 28,000 head2001: 28,000 head2002: 28,000 head2003: 29,000 head2004: 30,000 head2005: 30,000 head2006: 30,000 head2007: 30,000 head2008: 30,000 head2009: 38,949 head2010: 41,555 head2011: 45,201 head2012: 47,295 head2013: 48,629 head2014: 49,150 head2015: 56,504 head2016: 48,509 head2017: 46,737 head2018: 42,796 head2019: 37,167 head2020: 41,928 head2021: 40,345 head2022: 38,804 head2023: 38,042 head2024: 38,349 head020K40K60K19611983200520241961: 15,736 head1962: 16,000 head1963: 17,770 head1964: 17,785 head1965: 17,924 head1966: 17,538 head1967: 18,779 head1968: 19,429 head1969: 19,491 head1970: 19,774 head1971: 20,068 head1972: 20,375 head1973: 20,983 head1974: 22,790 head1975: 25,056 head1976: 26,011 head1977: 25,559 head1978: 26,293 head1979: 27,983 head1980: 26,284 head1981: 24,564 head1982: 22,957 head1983: 21,456 head1984: 20,052 head1985: 20,000 head1986: 22,000 head1987: 24,096 head1988: 24,096 head1989: 24,096 head1990: 24,000 head1991: 25,000 head1992: 24,000 head1993: 25,000 head1994: 26,000 head1995: 26,000 head1996: 26,000 head1997: 26,000 head1998: 27,000 head1999: 27,883 head2000: 28,000 head2001: 28,000 head2002: 28,000 head2003: 29,000 head2004: 30,000 head2005: 30,000 head2006: 30,000 head2007: 30,000 head2008: 30,000 head2009: 38,949 head2010: 41,555 head2011: 45,201 head2012: 47,295 head2013: 48,629 head2014: 49,150 head2015: 56,504 head2016: 48,509 head2017: 46,737 head2018: 42,796 head2019: 37,167 head2020: 41,928 head2021: 40,345 head2022: 38,804 head2023: 38,042 head2024: 38,349 head
head. Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Cattle, stocks, head (item 866, element 5111). Retrieved 2026-10-12, published 2025-12-31.
All 64 values
Periodhead
202438,349 Estimated
202338,042 Estimated
202238,804 Estimated
202140,345 Estimated
202041,928 Estimated
201937,167
201842,796 Estimated
201746,737 Estimated
201648,509 Estimated
201556,504
201449,150 Estimated
201348,629 Estimated
201247,295 Estimated
201145,201 Estimated
201041,555 Estimated
200938,949
200830,000 Estimated
200730,000 Estimated
200630,000 Estimated
200530,000 Estimated
200430,000 Estimated
200329,000 Estimated
200228,000 Estimated
200128,000 Estimated
200028,000
199927,883
199827,000 Estimated
199726,000 Estimated
199626,000 Estimated
199526,000 Estimated
199426,000 Estimated
199325,000 Estimated
199224,000 Estimated
199125,000 Estimated
199024,000 Estimated
198924,096
198824,096
198724,096
198622,000 Estimated
198520,000 Estimated
198420,052
198321,456
198222,957
198124,564
198026,284
197927,983
197826,293
197725,559
197626,011
197525,056
197422,790
197320,983
197220,375
197120,068
197019,774
196919,491
196819,429
196718,779
196617,538
196517,924
196417,785
196317,770
196216,000
196115,736

Samoa compared with nearby places

United Arab Emirates: 119,098 headAfghanistan: 5,555,383 headAntigua and Barbuda: 4,500 headAlbania: 272,035 headArmenia: 491,594 headAngola: 5,200,294 headArgentina: 52,783,892 headAustria: 1,820,030 headAustralia: 30,372,537 headAzerbaijan: 2,329,506 headBosnia and Herzegovina: 383,331 headBangladesh: 25,013,000 headBelgium: 2,153,430 headBurkina Faso: 10,280,515 headBulgaria: 558,770 headBurundi: 1,228,356 headBenin: 2,762,716 headBrunei: 286 headBolivia: 11,245,622 headBrazil: 238,180,757 headBahamas: 743 headBhutan: 257,103 headBotswana: 918,057 headBelarus: 4,097,900 headBelize: 99,019 headCanada: 10,985,000 headDemocratic Republic of the Congo: 2,032,019 headCentral African Republic: 4,864,952 headRepublic of the Congo: 335,224 headSwitzerland: 1,533,483 headCôte d’Ivoire: 1,896,358 headChile: 2,962,490 headCameroon: 5,941,769 headChina: 70,325,500 headColombia: 30,344,182 headCosta Rica: 1,576,149 headCuba: 3,250,000 headCape Verde: 29,779 headCyprus: 82,680 headCzechia: 1,397,410 headGermany: 10,461,290 headDjibouti: 317,893 headDenmark: 1,413,860 headDominican Republic: 3,030,340 headAlgeria: 1,782,454 headEcuador: 3,436,276 headEstonia: 232,390 headEgypt: 2,625,729 headEritrea: 2,156,877 headSpain: 6,173,960 headEthiopia: 71,916,930 headFinland: 764,030 headFiji: 80,720 headFaroe Islands: 1,816 headFrance: 16,478,260 headGabon: 39,678 headUnited Kingdom: 9,411,871 headGeorgia: 837,700 headGhana: 2,362,472 headGambia: 309,195 headGuinea: 9,319,774 headEquatorial Guinea: 5,520 headGreece: 595,200 headGuatemala: 4,343,871 headGuinea-Bissau: 742,836 headGuyana: 98,851 headHong Kong: 1,570 headHonduras: 2,900,458 headCroatia: 422,000 headHaiti: 1,524,965 headHungary: 869,900 headIndonesia: 18,065,156 headIreland: 6,308,300 headIsrael: 477,958 headIndia: 194,753,479 headIraq: 2,104,351 headIran: 5,600,812 headIceland: 76,902 headItaly: 5,765,000 headJamaica: 153,169 headJordan: 88,819 headJapan: 3,985,000 headKenya: 22,435,638 headKyrgyzstan: 1,828,768 headCambodia: 2,821,807 headNorth Korea: 570,727 headSouth Korea: 3,889,278 headKuwait: 32,136 headKazakhstan: 7,976,665 headLaos: 2,691,000 headLebanon: 75,538 headSri Lanka: 1,125,450 headLiberia: 43,270 headLesotho: 517,450 headLithuania: 599,770 headLuxembourg: 180,530 headLatvia: 352,090 headLibya: 208,931 headMorocco: 2,365,210 headMoldova: 98,817 headMontenegro: 67,496 headMadagascar: 6,957,211 headNorth Macedonia: 143,953 headMali: 14,040,120 headMyanmar: 10,800,000 headMongolia: 5,074,552 headMauritania: 1,992,320 headMauritius: 3,500 headMalawi: 2,307,952 headMexico: 36,933,201 headMalaysia: 730,318 headMozambique: 2,467,082 headNamibia: 2,907,986 headNew Caledonia: 77,281 headNiger: 20,375,030 headNigeria: 20,943,448 headNetherlands: 3,562,000 headNorway: 852,800 headNepal: 5,198,388 headNew Zealand: 9,516,288 headOman: 446,988 headPanama: 1,401,169 headPeru: 5,842,166 headFrench Polynesia: 8,097 headPapua New Guinea: 90,889 headPhilippines: 2,605,517 headPakistan: 57,541,000 headPoland: 6,190,930 headPuerto Rico: 218,598 headPortugal: 1,486,910 headParaguay: 13,630,216 headQatar: 45,424 headRomania: 1,809,400 headSerbia: 698,605 headRussia: 17,373,368 headRwanda: 1,545,688 headSaudi Arabia: 534,181 headSolomon Islands: 15,381 headSudan: 31,256,148 headSweden: 1,333,820 headSingapore: 177 headSlovenia: 453,890 headSlovakia: 416,680 headSierra Leone: 682,125 headSenegal: 3,714,834 headSomalia: 4,788,212 headSuriname: 28,821 headSouth Sudan: 14,282,839 headEl Salvador: 772,208 headSyria: 826,396 headEswatini: 652,513 headChad: 39,625,902 headTogo: 477,388 headThailand: 4,293,189 headTajikistan: 2,789,212 headTimor-Leste: 238,902 headTurkmenistan: 2,545,439 headTunisia: 495,935 headTürkiye: 16,824,208 headTrinidad and Tobago: 35,419 headTaiwan: 155,741 headTanzania: 39,053,013 headUkraine: 2,156,200 headUganda: 14,723,179 headUnited States: 87,157,400 headUruguay: 11,960,556 headUzbekistan: 14,394,476 headVenezuela: 15,749,209 headVietnam: 6,212,203 headVanuatu: 89,000 headSamoa: 38,349 headYemen: 1,971,664 headSouth Africa: 12,122,027 headZambia: 4,887,687 headZimbabwe: 5,741,397 head
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Number of cattle, 2024, head. Samoa is outlined. Same source and period for every area shown. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

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Number of cattle (domestic cattle, not buffaloes) present in the country, as published in FAOSTAT's crops and livestock products domain. FAO asks for the count on one day of the year, usually the census or survey date, so the reference day differs between countries.

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FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Cattle, stocks, head (item 866, element 5111). Accessed on 2026-10-12. https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip Licence: CC-BY-4.0. FAO does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data.

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. (2025). Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Cattle, stocks, head (item 866, element 5111) (Number of cattle, Samoa, 1961 to 2024) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip

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Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Cattle, stocks, head (item 866, element 5111), Number of cattle, Samoa, 1961 to 2024. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 31 Dec. 2025, https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/cattle-population/samoa. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2025. Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Cattle, stocks, head (item 866, element 5111). Number of cattle, Samoa, 1961 to 2024. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/cattle-population/samoa.

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Cattle, stocks, head (item 866, element 5111), Number of cattle, Samoa, 1961 to 2024 [Dataset]. Available at: https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/en/cattle-population/samoa (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

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  title = {{Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Cattle, stocks, head (item 866, element 5111): Number of cattle, Samoa, 1961 to 2024}},
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  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/cattle-population/samoa. Publisher attribution: FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Cattle, stocks, head (item 866, element 5111). Accessed on 2026-10-12. https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production\_Crops\_Livestock\_E\_All\_Data\_\%28Normalized\%29.zip Licence: CC-BY-4.0. FAO does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data.},
}
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What is the number of cattle in Samoa?

Number of cattle in Samoa was 38,349 head in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. That is up 0.8% from 2023. That is the 162nd highest of 190 countries in 2024.

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Cattle, stocks, head (item 866, element 5111). Retrieved by Invokely on 2026-10-12.

What was the highest number of cattle in Samoa?

56,504 head in 2015, the highest value since 1961 in this series.

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