Number of livestock

Data acquired cover information on number of livestock in Latvia at the end of the year.

Economically active agricultural holding.

Economically active agricultural holdings.

Before 2025:

• Data are collected in compliance with the requirements of the European Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/2008.

Statistics database

EU data on Eurostat website

Section - Agriculture / Agricultural production / Animal production

Comparable data are available since 1938.

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Until 2007, statistics on the number of livestock were obtained from sample surveys. Since the end of 2008, information from the Animal Register of the Rural Support Service of Latvia has been used to provide statistics on the number of cattle, sheep, goats, horses, poultry, rabbits and bee flocks.

Statistical data source for the number of pigs until the end of 2020 was questionnaire 3-ls “Livestock” (sample survey).

Since the end of 2021, the data source for the statistical data on the number of all livestock species (cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, horses, poultry, rabbits and bee flocks) is the Animal Register of the Rural Support Service of Latvia.

Sample (for 2008-2020) has been formed as stratified simple random sample. Holdings are stratified basing on their location (NUTS 3 level region), type of farming and economic size.

Extrapolation of the data on the surveyed holdings to all agricultural holdings is based on the number of similar holdings represented by sampled holdings as well as actual response rate in each of the survey territories.