The term "LIVESTOCK" is used in a broad sense to cover all grown animals regardless of age, location or purpose of breeding. Non-domesticated animals are excluded under this definition unless they are kept or raised in captivity. Domestic animals included are large and small quadrupeds, poultry, insects (bees) and larvae of insects (silkworms). Figures on livestock numbers should refer to live animals enumerated on a given day or on several consecutive days. The FAO practice is that figures for an indicated year relate to animals reported by countries for any day between October of the previous year and September of the year indicated. Statistics on live animals by age, sex and utilization generally are not included in the list that follows, even though such breakdowns are extremely desirable in terms of national statistics. For each animal species FAO proposes that information be maintained on changes in national herds during the year according to the following equation: initial herd + animals born + imports of live animals - exports of live animals - natural losses - slaughter = closing herd.FAO defines meat as the flesh of animals used for food. In production data, meat is normally reported inclusive of bone and exclusive of meat that is unfit for human consumption. As reported by individual countries, meat production data may refer either to commercial production (meat entering marketing channels), inspected production (from animals slaughtered under sanitary inspection), or total production (the total of the above- mentioned categories plus slaughter for personal consumption). All FAO annual production data refer to total production.Country statistics on meat production adhere to one or more of the following concepts: 1. Live weight: the weight of the animal immediately before slaughter. 2. Killed weight: the live weight less the uncollected blood lost during slaughter. 3. Dressed carcass weight: weight minus all parts - edible and inedible - that are removed in dressing the carcass. The concept varies widely from country to country and according to the various species of livestock. Edible parts generally include edible offals (head or head meat, tongue, brains, heart, liver, spleen, stomach or tripes and, in a few countries, other parts such as feet, throat and lungs. Slaughter fats (the unrendered fats that fall in the course of dressing the carcasses) are recorded as either edible or inedible according to country practice. Inedible parts generally include hides and skins (except in the case of pigs), as well as hoofs and stomach contents.Among individual countries, one of the following three concepts issued to measure production:A. Production from all animals, of both indigenous and foreign origin, that are slaughtered within national boundaries. B. Production from the slaughter of indigenous animals plus exports of live indigenous animals during the reference period. Derived from meat production as follows: production from slaughtered animals plus the meat equivalent of all animals exported alive, minus the meat equivalent of all animals imported alive. As imports/exports of live animals are recorded by FAO in numbers, not weight, animal type and size are of significance. C. The biological production concept covers indigenous animals that are either slaughtered or exported live, plus net additions to the stock during the reference period. Derived from indigenous productions follows: indigenous production plus (or minus) the meat equivalent of the change in the stock numbers during the reference period. Production is expressed in terms of live weight. Changes in the total live weight of all animals are not taken into account.FAO uses the first concept of meat production in the construction of its food balance sheets and for related indicators. The second concept, indigenous meat production, in measuring the output of the national livestock sector, is useful mainly in the construction of index numbers of agricultural pr

Carne Bovina e de Búfalo (thousand heads)

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China10.88338.25041.50046.50046.00047.00048.00049.10048.00050.00045.70046.80047.50046.65047.07048.40050.300
Brasil9.56024.20030.46739.43041.80041.80043.00044.52541.80039.99039.65041.12542.17541.65040.85040.10042.25043.000
Índia1.63514.40915.25021.70029.00030.00031.80034.50036.15036.85037.60038.20038.30038.60035.80038.75039.45039.965
Estados Unidos de América39.55935.27737.58833.31135.32435.10833.87333.35330.85729.32031.18932.81833.70434.26533.36634.36034.81333.330
Argentina12.92512.50013.20014.60011.90011.06011.60012.90012.40012.43011.80012.60013.46013.95514.00013.00013.50014.300
Austrália5.7098.1668.6428.4678.2727.9427.9779.0329.9149.6747.8307.5728.3419.0477.5596.3036.1157.120
México3.5988.7206.9256.1506.0506.3476.3756.2006.0005.9755.9556.0706.1806.2506.3386.6506.7806.915
Rússia16.3489.5608.7277.2206.7206.8406.8006.7506.6356.5486.4006.5306.5006.5006.5006.5006.550
Nova Zelândia3.1302.7803.2883.8003.9673.9133.9294.2654.6074.8114.4004.1574.3674.5034.6254.7304.5924.670
Canadá4.0213.3543.8364.4003.7353.3943.1103.0663.1662.9123.0923.2953.4653.6013.4943.7153.7283.570
Reino Unido4.0433.5282.7802.7542.8102.8262.8262.7492.8172.790
Uruguai1.8211.5501.9502.4502.2802.0962.1502.0602.2002.2302.2802.3402.3722.2402.0202.6502.4112.180
Egito2.1871.9672.1851.5901.4601.3001.3401.4551.4901.6801.6901.7001.8201.7651.7901.8301.885
Ucrânia9.7055.7903.4072.9062.5912.3362.5732.8432.3052.1372.2472.1712.1892.0341.7451.6581.408
Japão1.2991.3901.3021.2341.2191.1741.2001.1851.1571.1071.0511.0451.0561.0431.0521.0561.0881.125
Coreia do Sul2865559986127538539701.0711.0421.0068618738668879039341.0151.105
Armênia0
Áustria752825
Azerbaijão362
Belarus2.2951.0911.1701.2501.1751.1751.2791.2001.326
Belize9
Bélgica1.093931
Bulgária0678
Chile767
Colômbia2.6594.1913.7153.7573.5453.8194.0344.2004.150
República Dominicana170350308
Dinamarca1.087789
El Salvador120163125
Costa Rica207408377
Estônia391
República Checa1.4781.522
França8.0996.761
Geórgia279
Alemanha5.6904.883
Grécia553412
Guatemala333370350
Haiti0
Honduras208269123
Hungria407410
Irã624
Irlanda9061.583
Israel91110
Equador234
Cazaquistão3.5041.550
Quirquistão445
Látvia611
Lituânia1.129
Moldávia557
Finlândia820506
Itália5.1905.227
Nicarágua310353504
Noruega408352
Panamá173320
Peru823770
Filipinas4707631.2251.120
Polônia4.5524.493
Portugal844502
Romênia1.2552.025
Arábia Saudita118
Eslováquia0
África do Sul2.3432.9343.2353.035
Espanha1.6661.891
Suécia836592
Suiça814825
Taiwan/Província da China542732
Tadjiquistão279
Tailândia840
Tunísia235
Turquia2.8704.5004.150
Turcomenistão230
Uzbequistão1.442
Venezuela (República Bolivariana da)1.1951.8231.994