Countries by number of pigs

China had the highest number of pigs of 172 countries in 2016, at 458,028,900 head. Syria had the lowest, at 11 head. The median was 446,626 head and the figure for the World was 986,909,198 head. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest458,028,900China

Lowest11Syria

Median446,626172 countries

World986,909,198History

Map of countries, 2016

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head, 2016. Hatched areas have no value for this period. Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Swine / pigs, stocks, head (item 1034, element 5111). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

Top 40 countries, 2016

head. Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Swine / pigs, stocks, head (item 1034, element 5111). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2016 head	Change on 2015
1	China	458,028,900	-2.9%
2	United States	71,345,400	+3.5%
3	Brazil	40,053,184	+0.6%
4	Spain	29,231,595	+3%
5	Vietnam	29,075,315	+4.8%
6	Germany	27,376,100	-1%
7	Russia	21,405,501	+9.5%
8	Mexico	16,688,228	+2%
9	Myanmar	16,524,336	+9.8%
10	Canada	13,630,000	+3.4%
11	France	12,626,616	-4.1%
12	Netherlands	12,479,000	-1%
13	Philippines	12,478,711	+4%
14	Denmark	12,383,000	-1.2%
15	Poland	10,865,318	-6.7%
16	South Korea	10,366,779	+1.8%
17	India Estimated	9,686,420	-1.7%
18	Japan	9,313,000	-0.9%
19	Italy	8,477,930	-2.3%
20	Indonesia	7,903,450	+1.2%
21	Thailand Estimated	7,680,117	+0.6%
22	Nigeria	7,643,563	+3.7%
23	Ukraine	7,079,000	-3.7%
24	Belgium	6,176,576	-2.9%
25	Taiwan	5,496,216	-0.9%
26	Argentina	5,119,438	+2.2%
27	Colombia	5,094,664	-11.4%
28	Romania	4,926,928	-2.3%
29	United Kingdom	4,866,000	+2.7%
30	Uganda	4,037,000	+3.1%
31	Laos	3,700,000	+13.6%
32	Venezuela	3,546,987	-6.5%
33	Malawi	3,301,818	+4.5%
34	Belarus	3,145,200	-1.9%
35	Hungary	3,124,000	-0.4%
36	Peru	3,104,911	-3%
37	Serbia	3,021,167	-8%
38	Bolivia	2,906,696	+1.8%
39	Guatemala	2,875,900	-0.2%
40	Angola Estimated	2,875,393	-8.4%
41	Austria	2,845,451	-0.8%
42	Chile	2,614,670	-3%
43	North Korea	2,582,000	+10.9%
44	Burkina Faso	2,440,528	+2%
45	Australia	2,294,245	+1%
46	Cambodia Estimated	2,171,339	-0.4%
47	Portugal	2,151,000	-4.3%
48	Cameroon Estimated	2,063,108	+2.3%
49	Papua New Guinea Estimated	2,012,692	+0.3%
50	Cuba	1,929,900	+13.2%
51	Mozambique	1,691,881	+6.5%
52	Rwanda	1,684,709	+12.9%
53	Madagascar	1,669,000	+2.7%
54	Malaysia	1,654,381	-12.3%
55	Czechia	1,609,945	+3.2%
56	Ireland	1,594,300	+3.7%
57	South Africa	1,512,453	-0.7%
58	Sweden	1,471,200	+2.5%
59	Switzerland	1,453,602	-2.8%
60	Paraguay	1,300,064	+2.7%
61	Nepal	1,291,308	+7.3%
62	Finland	1,234,860	-0.6%
63	Croatia	1,163,027	-0.3%
64	Ecuador	1,141,244	-30.3%
65	Zambia Estimated	1,051,082	+4%
66	Central African Republic Estimated	1,036,473	+2.1%
67	Togo	1,022,878	+2%
68	Haiti Estimated	1,010,470	+0.3%
69	Democratic Republic of the Congo Estimated	991,660	-0.3%
70	Norway	854,005	+0.6%
71	Kazakhstan	834,230	-6%
72	Ghana	777,000	+6.4%
73	Greece	697,724	-2.2%
74	Lithuania	687,822	-3.7%
75	Slovakia	633,116	-1.4%
76	Nicaragua Estimated	613,936	+3.2%
77	Bulgaria	600,068	+8.5%
78	Burundi	561,184	+5.9%
79	Bosnia and Herzegovina	544,893	-3.4%
80	Tanzania Estimated	512,936	+0.8%
81	Kenya	504,395	+9.2%
82	Honduras Estimated	471,151	-2.3%
83	Benin	466,000	+3.9%
84	Dominican Republic Estimated	460,155	+0.6%
85	Guinea-Bissau Estimated	456,439	-0.7%
86	Moldova	453,190	-4.1%
87	Costa Rica Estimated	440,062	-8.7%
88	Zimbabwe	425,540	+23.3%
89	Senegal Estimated	423,216	+3.2%
90	Timor-Leste Estimated	421,067	+0.5%
91	Panama	389,000	+6.6%
92	Côte d’Ivoire Estimated	385,401	+4.5%
93	Cyprus	352,769	-1.5%
94	Latvia	334,159	-4.4%
95	Liberia Estimated	286,671	-0.4%
96	Slovenia	271,385	-3.5%
97	Estonia	265,900	-25.7%
98	New Zealand	254,607	-5.1%
99	El Salvador	228,841	+35.3%
100	Gabon Estimated	221,590	+0.4%
101	Jamaica Estimated	212,814	+0.4%
102	North Macedonia	202,758	+3.7%
103	Israel	190,000	0%
104	Uruguay	187,000	-13.4%
105	Albania	181,024	+5.6%
106	Armenia	174,776	+22.7%
107	Georgia	161,500	-4.8%
108	Samoa Estimated	158,688	-5.9%
109	Guinea	127,100	+5%
110	Chad Estimated	120,000	+20%
111	Republic of the Congo Estimated	97,238	+1.1%
112	Sierra Leone Estimated	93,092	-30.1%
113	Luxembourg	92,312	-3.2%
114	Vanuatu	89,305	-3%
115	Hong Kong	87,948	+2.6%
116	Cape Verde	87,121	+1%
117	Uzbekistan	85,518	-2.6%
118	Fiji Estimated	84,360	-3.2%
119	Tonga Estimated	83,552	+0.2%
120	Namibia	83,513	+1.3%
121	Lesotho	83,190	-7.9%
122	Mali	83,174	+6.6%
123	Sri Lanka	81,420	+16.8%
124	Solomon Islands Estimated	55,637	+0.4%
125	Kyrgyzstan	51,082	+1.5%
126	Puerto Rico Estimated	43,392	-2.1%
127	Eswatini	42,852	+11.3%
128	Niger Estimated	42,462	-0%
129	Malta	40,597	-7%
130	New Caledonia Estimated	37,688	-1.7%
131	Micronesia Estimated	36,742	+1.1%
132	Suriname	35,395	-3.6%
133	Ethiopia Estimated	35,364	+1.9%
134	São Tomé and Príncipe	35,319	+0.2%
135	Mongolia	31,489	-6%
136	Cook Islands Estimated	30,975	-2.2%
137	French Polynesia Estimated	29,678	-0.6%
138	Iceland	28,500	-0.7%
139	Trinidad and Tobago	26,497	-10.6%
140	Montenegro	24,998	+0.2%
141	Mauritius	24,161	+10%
142	Barbados Estimated	22,430	-0.8%
143	Belize Estimated	22,005	-1.7%
144	Bhutan	15,324	-2.6%
145	Saint Lucia Estimated	14,717	+8.3%
146	Kiribati Estimated	14,363	+1.3%
147	Tuvalu Estimated	14,292	+0.3%
148	Gambia Estimated	12,000	+15.4%
149	Egypt Estimated	10,096	-2.7%
150	Guyana Estimated	9,774	-9.2%
151	Turkmenistan	8,355	-7.2%
152	Morocco Estimated	7,948	-0.4%
153	Lebanon Estimated	7,564	-3.6%
154	Equatorial Guinea Estimated	6,996	+1.3%
155	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Estimated	6,604	-8.8%
156	Seychelles Estimated	5,546	-0.9%
157	Tunisia Estimated	5,524	0%
158	Dominica Estimated	5,013	+0.2%
159	Bahamas Estimated	5,002	0%
160	Algeria Estimated	4,979	-0.2%
161	Antigua and Barbuda Estimated	4,926	-0.3%
162	Azerbaijan	4,406	-15.5%
163	Grenada Estimated	4,070	+4.7%
164	Somalia Estimated	3,753	+0.7%
165	Botswana Estimated	3,303	-24.9%
166	Nauru Estimated	3,001	0%
167	Saint Kitts and Nevis Estimated	2,600	-13.3%
168	Niue Estimated	2,218	+0.9%
169	Brunei Estimated	1,300	+1.2%
170	Türkiye	1,299	-20.9%
171	Tajikistan	271	-39.5%
172	Syria Estimated	11	+10%

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About this ranking

Number of pigs (swine) 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. 6 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2016 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): Swine / pigs, stocks, head (item 1034, 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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Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Swine / pigs, stocks, head (item 1034, element 5111), Countries by number of pigs, 2016. 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/rankings/pig-population/countries?period=2016. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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  title = {{Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Swine / pigs, stocks, head (item 1034, element 5111): Countries by number of pigs, 2016}},
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  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/pig-population/countries?period=2016. Publisher attribution: FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Swine / pigs, stocks, head (item 1034, 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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China, with 458,028,900 head in 2016, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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