# EU countries by number of chickens, 2020

All 26 values come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations for 2020, so the places are comparable. 1 EU 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)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/fao
- 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/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | head |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | France | 242,015,000 |
| 2 | Poland | 195,825,000 |
| 3 | Spain | 193,476,000 |
| 4 | Germany | 159,118,000 |
| 5 | Italy | 142,503,000 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 101,863,000 |
| 7 | Romania | 73,901,000 |
| 8 | Belgium | 53,362,000 |
| 9 | Portugal | 49,307,000 |
| 10 | Greece | 34,033,000 |
| 11 | Hungary | 30,874,000 |
| 12 | Denmark | 21,250,000 |
| 13 | Czechia | 21,018,000 |
| 14 | Bulgaria | 17,177,000 |
| 15 | Austria | 16,857,000 |
| 16 | Ireland | 15,236,000 |
| 17 | Slovakia | 13,153,000 |
| 18 | Finland | 12,715,000 |
| 19 | Croatia | 12,508,000 |
| 20 | Lithuania | 9,852,000 |
| 21 | Slovenia | 5,770,000 |
| 22 | Latvia | 5,643,000 |
| 23 | Cyprus | 4,655,000 |
| 24 | Estonia | 2,055,000 |
| 25 | Malta | 884,000 |
| 26 | Luxembourg | 136,000 |