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.

Up to 2024:

• Regulation (EC) No 1165/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning livestock and meat statistics and repealing Council Directives 93/23/EEC, 93/24/EEC and 93/25/EEC.

From 2025:

• Regulation (EU) 2022/2379 of the European Parliament and of the Council on statistics on agricultural input and output, amending Commission Regulation (EC) No 617/2008 and repealing Regulations (EC) No 1165/2008, (EC) No 543/2009 and (EC) No 1185/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Directive 96/16/EC;
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2745 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) 2022/2379 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards animal production statistics.

Statistics database

Eurostat (statistical office of the European Union) is responsible for publishing high-quality Europe-wide statistics and indicators that enable comparisons between countries and regions. Statistics is available in the Eurostat database, in 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.