Countries by number of cattle

Brazil had the highest number of cattle of 192 countries in 2014, at 212,366,132 head. Niue had the lowest, at 113 head. The median was 1,481,560 head and the figure for the World was 1,439,191,732 head. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest212,366,132Brazil

Lowest113Niue

Median1,481,560192 countries

World1,439,191,732History

Map of countries, 2014

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head, 2014. Hatched areas have no value for this period. Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Cattle, stocks, head (item 866, element 5111). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

Top 40 countries, 2014

head. Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Cattle, stocks, head (item 866, element 5111). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2014 head	Change on 2013
1	Brazil	212,366,132	+0.3%
2	India Estimated	187,000,000	-1.1%
3	United States	88,526,000	-1.7%
4	China Estimated	62,900,320	0%
5	Ethiopia	56,706,389	+3.1%
6	Argentina	51,646,544	+1.3%
7	Pakistan	39,743,000	+3.8%
8	Mexico	32,939,529	+1.7%
9	Sudan	30,191,000	+0.6%
10	Australia	29,103,000	-0.6%
11	Tanzania	25,800,000	+5.2%
12	Chad Estimated	23,638,000	+5.3%
13	Bangladesh	23,488,000	+0.6%
14	Colombia	22,574,780	-1.9%
15	Nigeria	19,753,249	+2%
16	Russia	19,563,964	-1.8%
17	France	19,248,627	+0.8%
18	Kenya	18,247,632	+0.6%
19	Venezuela	16,816,301	-0.9%
20	Myanmar	15,481,101	+3.3%
21	Indonesia	14,726,875	+16.1%
22	Paraguay	14,465,581	+8.1%
23	Türkiye	14,223,109	-1.3%
24	South Africa	13,915,301	+0.4%
25	Uganda	13,623,000	+4.9%
26	Germany	12,742,190	+1.2%
27	Canada	12,050,000	-1.6%
28	Uruguay	11,834,000	+2.6%
29	South Sudan	11,817,000	+0.4%
30	Niger	11,377,312	+6%
31	Uzbekistan	10,607,300	+4.6%
32	New Zealand	10,368,188	+1.8%
33	Madagascar	10,198,800	+1.7%
34	Mali	10,012,968	+3%
35	United Kingdom	9,837,000	-0.1%
36	Burkina Faso	9,090,700	+2%
37	Bolivia	8,798,354	-0.6%
38	Nepal	7,243,916	-0.4%
39	Ireland	6,926,100	+0.3%
40	Spain	6,078,700	+6.7%
41	Guinea	6,074,000	+4.9%
42	Cameroon Estimated	5,950,000	+2.5%
43	Poland	5,920,411	+1%
44	Kazakhstan	5,851,200	+2.8%
45	Italy	5,756,072	-1.5%
46	Peru	5,577,959	+0.4%
47	Afghanistan	5,349,000	+2.2%
48	Vietnam	5,234,300	+1.5%
49	Somalia Estimated	4,900,000	+0.6%
50	Thailand	4,898,575	-4.8%
51	Angola Estimated	4,895,000	+2.2%
52	Zimbabwe	4,868,357	-20.8%
53	Nicaragua	4,818,483	+5.6%
54	Egypt	4,762,491	+0.4%
55	Ecuador	4,579,374	-10.8%
56	Ukraine	4,397,700	-5.3%
57	Belarus	4,363,700	-0.1%
58	Central African Republic Estimated	4,350,000	+1.2%
59	Iran	4,231,993	-46.7%
60	Netherlands	4,169,000	+4.2%
61	Cuba	4,134,300	+1%
62	Zambia Estimated	4,085,000	+1.4%
63	Japan	3,962,000	-2.5%
64	Guatemala	3,584,800	+4.8%
65	Senegal	3,481,126	+1.5%
66	Mongolia	3,413,851	+17.3%
67	Morocco	3,238,688	+2.1%
68	South Korea	3,189,951	-4.6%
69	Dominican Republic Estimated	3,000,000	0%
70	Iraq	2,900,000	+4.3%
71	Chile Estimated	2,896,333	-3.7%
72	Namibia	2,882,489	+9.4%
73	Cambodia Estimated	2,875,000	-0.9%
74	Honduras Estimated	2,778,000	+0.1%
75	Philippines	2,512,184	+0.6%
76	Belgium	2,477,236	+0.9%
77	Azerbaijan	2,445,178	+1.4%
78	Turkmenistan Estimated	2,287,292	+1.4%
79	Benin	2,222,000	+2.6%
80	Tajikistan	2,128,179	+1.4%
81	Eritrea Estimated	2,090,000	+0.5%
82	Algeria	2,049,652	+7.3%
83	Romania	2,022,408	+0.7%
84	Austria	1,958,282	+0.1%
85	Mauritania	1,850,000	+4.3%
86	Mozambique	1,798,000	+7%
87	Yemen	1,768,442	+2.7%
88	Laos	1,766,000	+3%
89	Ghana	1,657,000	+4.2%
90	Panama	1,633,800	-5.4%
91	Botswana	1,596,605	-23.4%
92	Côte d’Ivoire Estimated	1,587,000	+0.1%
93	Denmark	1,563,535	-3.2%
94	Switzerland	1,562,801	+0.3%
95	Portugal	1,549,000	+5.3%
96	Sweden	1,493,119	-0.2%
97	Haiti Estimated	1,470,000	+0.3%
98	Kyrgyzstan	1,458,377	+3.9%
99	Czechia	1,373,560	+1.5%
100	Malawi	1,316,799	+6%
101	Costa Rica Estimated	1,301,000	+0.1%
102	Georgia	1,229,700	+1.5%
103	Rwanda	1,165,385	+2.9%
104	Sri Lanka	1,104,780	-5.5%
105	Syria	1,090,458	-2%
106	El Salvador	1,042,000	+16.6%
107	Democratic Republic of the Congo	949,425	+0.3%
108	Serbia	920,068	+0.8%
109	Finland	914,439	+0.3%
110	Norway	840,000	-1.6%
111	Burundi	826,062	+8.8%
112	Hungary	782,000	+2.9%
113	Malaysia	743,019	-1.1%
114	Lithuania	713,500	-2.2%
115	Sierra Leone Estimated	700,155	+1.7%
116	Armenia	677,584	+2.5%
117	Guinea-Bissau Estimated	675,000	+0.7%
118	Tunisia	671,200	+3.9%
119	Eswatini	620,032	-1.2%
120	Greece	599,875	-1.5%
121	Bulgaria	575,584	+9.4%
122	North Korea Estimated	575,000	-0.2%
123	Lesotho	540,133	-1.4%
124	Albania	499,690	+0.3%
125	Gambia	479,183	+9.9%
126	Slovakia	467,820	-0.7%
127	Israel	461,000	-0.9%
128	Slovenia	460,576	+0.1%
129	Bosnia and Herzegovina	444,000	-0.6%
130	Croatia	441,000	-0.2%
131	Togo	437,390	-1.3%
132	Latvia	406,500	+3.4%
133	Oman	366,680	+2%
134	Saudi Arabia	354,276	-22.4%
135	Bhutan	348,071	-0.5%
136	Republic of the Congo Estimated	340,000	+0.9%
137	Djibouti Estimated	300,000	+0.7%
138	Estonia	261,400	+6.3%
139	Puerto Rico Estimated	254,332	-2.1%
140	North Macedonia	241,607	+1.4%
141	Libya Estimated	200,000	+0.8%
142	Luxembourg	198,780	+2.7%
143	Moldova	188,862	-1.2%
144	Timor-Leste	176,280	+0.1%
145	Vanuatu Estimated	175,000	+1.2%
146	Jamaica Estimated	168,000	-1.2%
147	Taiwan	144,887	+1.3%
148	Guyana Estimated	113,000	+0.1%
149	Belize Estimated	94,850	-16.2%
150	Lebanon	94,000	+16.8%
151	New Caledonia Estimated	93,000	+1.1%
151	Papua New Guinea Estimated	93,000	0%
153	United Arab Emirates	89,510	+4.9%
154	Montenegro	76,579	-1.2%
155	Iceland	74,444	+9.5%
156	Fiji	71,909	-77%
157	Jordan	69,408	-0.5%
158	Cyprus	60,874	+5.7%
159	Comoros Estimated	50,000	0%
160	Samoa Estimated	49,150	+1.1%
161	Liberia Estimated	43,000	+2.4%
162	Palestine	42,390	+24.7%
163	Gabon Estimated	38,500	+1.3%
164	Suriname	36,138	-21.5%
165	Trinidad and Tobago Estimated	35,000	+1.4%
166	Kuwait	27,310	+8.8%
167	Cape Verde	22,802	+0.2%
168	Qatar	22,277	+21.1%
169	Micronesia Estimated	16,500	0%
170	Solomon Islands Estimated	15,000	0%
171	Malta	14,883	-2.2%
172	Dominica Estimated	14,000	0%
173	Tonga Estimated	11,800	+0.9%
174	Barbados Estimated	11,100	-0.9%
175	Saint Lucia Estimated	11,000	0%
176	Bahrain Estimated	10,500	0%
177	French Polynesia Estimated	7,300	-1.4%
178	Mauritius	6,041	-16.6%
179	Grenada Estimated	5,910	+1.5%
180	Equatorial Guinea Estimated	5,300	0%
181	Antigua and Barbuda Estimated	5,000	0%
182	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	3,810	-8.8%
183	Saint Kitts and Nevis	2,000	-25.9%
184	Faroe Islands	1,917	-1.3%
185	Hong Kong Estimated	1,700	0%
186	São Tomé and Príncipe Estimated	1,200	+5.2%
187	Bahamas Estimated	750	0%
187	Brunei	750	-6.3%
189	Seychelles Estimated	300	0%
190	Cook Islands Estimated	220	+0.5%
191	Singapore Estimated	200	0%
192	Niue Estimated	113	0%

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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.

FAO fills gaps in national reporting with its own estimates and imputations, which are marked as estimated, and revises past years when countries send new figures.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. 4 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2014 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

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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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  title = {{Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Cattle, stocks, head (item 866, element 5111): Countries by number of cattle, 2014}},
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}

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Brazil, with 212,366,132 head in 2014, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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