# EU countries by number of pigs, 2024

All 27 values come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations for 2024, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `pig_stocks`
- Unit: head
- Definition: 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.
- Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Swine / pigs, stocks, head (item 1034, element 5111) (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): 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.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/pig-population/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | head |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Spain | 34,565,280 |
| 2 | Germany | 21,292,300 |
| 3 | France | 11,714,940 |
| 4 | Denmark | 11,583,000 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 10,192,000 |
| 6 | Poland | 9,078,250 |
| 7 | Italy | 7,820,490 |
| 8 | Belgium | 5,375,200 |
| 9 | Romania | 3,257,500 |
| 10 | Hungary | 2,802,400 |
| 11 | Austria | 2,534,440 |
| 12 | Portugal | 2,192,680 |
| 13 | Ireland | 1,473,750 |
| 14 | Czechia | 1,421,820 |
| 15 | Sweden | 1,360,460 |
| 16 | Finland | 974,130 |
| 17 | Croatia | 873,000 |
| 18 | Greece | 786,200 |
| 19 | Bulgaria | 700,780 |
| 20 | Lithuania | 496,790 |
| 21 | Slovakia | 412,310 |
| 22 | Cyprus | 309,790 |
| 23 | Latvia | 300,060 |
| 24 | Estonia | 283,550 |
| 25 | Slovenia | 232,350 |
| 26 | Luxembourg | 64,810 |
| 27 | Malta | 37,210 |