Poultry Farming - World Chicken Population

World Chicken Population

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimated that in 2002 there were nearly sixteen billion chickens in the world, counting a total population of 15,853,900,000. The figures from the Global Livestock Production and Health Atlas for 2004 were as follows:

1. China (3,860,000,000)
2. United States (1,970,000,000)
3. Indonesia (1,200,000,000)
4. Brazil (1,100,000,000)
5. India (648,830,000)
6. Mexico (540,000,000)
7. Russia (340,000,000)
8. Japan (286,000,000)
9. Iran (280,000,000)
10. Turkey (250,000,000)
11. Bangladesh (172,630,000)
12. Nigeria (143,500,000)

In 2009 the annual chicken population in factory farms was estimated at 50 billion. With 6 billion raised in the European Union, over 9 billion raised in the United States and more than 7 billion in China.