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:
- China (3,860,000,000)
- United States (1,970,000,000)
- Indonesia (1,200,000,000)
- Brazil (1,100,000,000)
- India (648,830,000)
- Mexico (540,000,000)
- Russia (340,000,000)
- Japan (286,000,000)
- Iran (280,000,000)
- Turkey (250,000,000)
- Bangladesh (172,630,000)
- 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.
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