# Countries by number of chickens, 2024

All 179 values come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations for 2024, so the places are comparable. 19 countries have no value for that period and are not ranked.

- Indicator id: `chicken_stocks`
- Unit: head
- Definition: Number of chickens present in the country, laying hens and birds raised for meat alike, as published in FAOSTAT's crops and livestock products domain. FAO publishes thousands of birds; Invokely multiplies by 1,000.
- Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Chickens, stocks, 1000 head (item 1057, element 5112) (https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip)
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- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Chickens, stocks, 1000 head (item 1057, element 5112). 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.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/chicken-population/countries

| Rank | Place | head |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 5,243,707,000 |
| 2 | Indonesia | 3,709,617,000 |
| 3 | Pakistan | 2,064,210,000 |
| 4 | Brazil | 1,581,216,000 |
| 5 | United States | 1,555,000,000 |
| 6 | Iran | 1,032,877,000 |
| 7 | India | 852,885,000 |
| 8 | Mexico | 627,299,000 |
| 9 | Russia | 507,994,000 |
| 10 | Vietnam | 481,033,000 |
| 11 | Türkiye | 379,627,000 |
| 12 | Bangladesh | 327,777,000 |
| 13 | Malaysia | 326,057,000 |
| 14 | Japan | 315,635,000 |
| 15 | Thailand | 295,445,000 |
| 16 | Egypt | 272,284,000 |
| 17 | Poland | 244,680,000 |
| 18 | Nigeria | 241,700,000 |
| 19 | Bolivia | 233,689,000 |
| 20 | Morocco | 233,000,000 |
| 21 | France | 229,317,000 |
| 22 | Colombia | 216,109,000 |
| 23 | Saudi Arabia | 212,409,000 |
| 24 | Dominican Republic | 211,723,000 |
| 25 | Algeria | 203,572,000 |
| 26 | Philippines | 199,831,000 |
| 27 | Peru | 194,759,000 |
| 28 | Ecuador | 180,296,000 |
| 29 | South Korea | 178,474,000 |
| 30 | South Africa | 175,199,000 |
| 31 | Ukraine | 173,725,000 |
| 32 | Canada | 173,164,000 |
| 33 | United Kingdom | 166,986,000 |
| 34 | Côte d’Ivoire | 143,483,000 |
| 35 | Iraq | 140,000,000 |
| 36 | Myanmar | 135,000,000 |
| 37 | Venezuela | 125,706,000 |
| 38 | Belarus | 120,516,000 |
| 39 | Argentina | 114,329,000 |
| 40 | Australia | 108,508,000 |
| 41 | Senegal | 105,490,000 |
| 42 | Taiwan | 104,881,000 |
| 43 | Tunisia | 102,062,000 |
| 44 | Ghana | 94,284,000 |
| 45 | Uzbekistan | 89,856,000 |
| 46 | Netherlands | 89,231,000 |
| 47 | Lebanon | 73,653,000 |
| 48 | Kenya | 71,223,000 |
| 49 | Uganda | 69,540,000 |
| 50 | Yemen | 68,724,000 |
| 51 | Mali | 63,326,000 |
| 52 | Kuwait | 59,418,000 |
| 53 | Nepal | 56,916,000 |
| 54 | Laos | 54,773,000 |
| 55 | Chile | 52,384,000 |
| 56 | Ethiopia | 52,280,000 |
| 57 | Sudan | 50,207,000 |
| 58 | Angola | 49,758,000 |
| 59 | Honduras | 49,036,000 |
| 60 | Israel | 48,824,000 |
| 61 | Moldova | 48,451,000 |
| 62 | Guatemala | 47,162,000 |
| 63 | Uruguay | 46,951,000 |
| 64 | Kazakhstan | 45,651,000 |
| 65 | Cameroon | 45,575,000 |
| 66 | Madagascar | 43,553,000 |
| 67 | South Sudan | 43,167,000 |
| 68 | Zambia | 41,553,000 |
| 69 | Trinidad and Tobago | 41,544,000 |
| 70 | Guyana | 41,500,000 |
| 71 | Jordan | 41,062,000 |
| 72 | Guinea | 39,252,000 |
| 73 | Libya | 38,034,000 |
| 74 | Burkina Faso | 36,043,000 |
| 75 | Togo | 35,471,000 |
| 76 | Qatar | 34,191,000 |
| 77 | Panama | 33,596,000 |
| 78 | Tanzania | 33,458,000 |
| 79 | Paraguay | 29,392,000 |
| 80 | Azerbaijan | 29,372,000 |
| 81 | Hungary | 28,733,000 |
| 82 | Sierra Leone | 26,940,000 |
| 83 | United Arab Emirates | 26,388,000 |
| 84 | Czechia | 24,917,000 |
| 85 | New Zealand | 24,574,000 |
| 86 | Costa Rica | 23,865,000 |
| 87 | Turkmenistan | 21,489,000 |
| 88 | Brunei | 21,381,000 |
| 89 | Niger | 21,024,000 |
| 90 | Denmark | 20,718,000 |
| 91 | Malawi | 20,039,000 |
| 92 | Mozambique | 19,881,000 |
| 93 | Syria | 19,501,000 |
| 94 | El Salvador | 19,093,000 |
| 95 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 19,092,000 |
| 96 | Benin | 19,049,000 |
| 97 | Sri Lanka | 18,716,000 |
| 98 | Zimbabwe | 18,096,000 |
| 99 | Norway | 16,579,000 |
| 100 | Mauritius | 16,557,000 |
| 101 | Finland | 14,425,000 |
| 102 | Serbia | 14,417,000 |
| 103 | Jamaica | 14,235,000 |
| 104 | Afghanistan | 13,480,000 |
| 105 | Switzerland | 13,168,000 |
| 106 | Cambodia | 12,995,000 |
| 107 | North Korea | 12,015,000 |
| 108 | Tajikistan | 11,877,000 |
| 109 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 11,523,000 |
| 110 | Croatia | 10,936,000 |
| 111 | Lithuania | 10,476,000 |
| 112 | Slovakia | 9,593,000 |
| 113 | Liberia | 8,370,000 |
| 114 | Georgia | 7,475,000 |
| 115 | Central African Republic | 6,910,000 |
| 116 | Chad | 6,182,000 |
| 117 | Kyrgyzstan | 6,166,000 |
| 118 | Puerto Rico | 6,165,000 |
| 119 | Latvia | 5,985,000 |
| 120 | Haiti | 5,977,000 |
| 121 | Fiji | 5,876,000 |
| 122 | Cuba | 5,590,000 |
| 123 | Barbados | 5,236,000 |
| 124 | Oman | 5,084,000 |
| 125 | Slovenia | 5,054,000 |
| 126 | Mauritania | 4,810,000 |
| 127 | Papua New Guinea | 4,803,000 |
| 128 | Albania | 4,557,000 |
| 129 | Suriname | 4,524,000 |
| 130 | Armenia | 4,427,000 |
| 131 | Namibia | 4,181,000 |
| 132 | Hong Kong | 4,096,000 |
| 133 | Somalia | 3,926,000 |
| 134 | Rwanda | 3,697,000 |
| 135 | Gabon | 3,424,000 |
| 136 | Burundi | 3,374,000 |
| 137 | Bahamas | 3,289,000 |
| 138 | Singapore | 3,056,000 |
| 139 | Republic of the Congo | 3,030,000 |
| 140 | North Macedonia | 2,573,000 |
| 141 | Estonia | 2,274,000 |
| 142 | Guinea-Bissau | 2,117,000 |
| 143 | Eswatini | 1,967,000 |
| 144 | Bahrain | 1,918,000 |
| 145 | Mongolia | 1,830,000 |
| 146 | Belize | 1,723,000 |
| 147 | Gambia | 1,310,000 |
| 148 | Eritrea | 1,155,000 |
| 149 | Montenegro | 1,070,000 |
| 150 | Bhutan | 924,000 |
| 151 | Macao | 809,000 |
| 152 | Botswana | 805,000 |
| 153 | Cape Verde | 681,000 |
| 154 | Kiribati | 671,000 |
| 155 | New Caledonia | 618,000 |
| 156 | Timor-Leste | 571,000 |
| 157 | Comoros | 551,000 |
| 158 | Lesotho | 534,000 |
| 159 | Saint Lucia | 479,000 |
| 160 | Samoa | 438,000 |
| 161 | Vanuatu | 436,000 |
| 162 | Equatorial Guinea | 385,000 |
| 163 | Grenada | 384,000 |
| 164 | Tonga | 347,000 |
| 165 | French Polynesia | 339,000 |
| 166 | Seychelles | 262,000 |
| 167 | Solomon Islands | 248,000 |
| 168 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 243,000 |
| 169 | Iceland | 230,000 |
| 170 | Dominica | 204,000 |
| 171 | Micronesia | 193,000 |
| 172 | Luxembourg | 186,000 |
| 173 | São Tomé and Príncipe | 168,000 |
| 174 | Antigua and Barbuda | 160,000 |
| 175 | Tuvalu | 58,000 |
| 176 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 39,000 |
| 177 | Cook Islands | 36,000 |
| 178 | Niue | 19,000 |
| 179 | Nauru | 5,000 |