The world’s beef cattle stocks (thousand head)
Country
|
1989
|
1990
|
1991
|
1992
|
1993
|
1994
|
1995
|
Share (%)
1995 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
India
|
195,500
|
197,300
|
198,400
|
192,650
|
192,700
|
193,585
|
194,655
|
14.8
|
Brazil
|
144,154
|
147,102
|
152,000
|
154,229
|
155,134
|
156,000
|
156,000
|
11.9
|
Soviet Union
|
119,600
|
118,400
|
116,200
|
54,677a)
|
52,226a)
|
48,900a)
|
43,300a)
|
3.3a)
|
USA
|
98,065
|
98,162
|
99,436
|
97,556
|
99,176
|
100,988
|
102,755
|
7.8
|
China
|
77,025
|
79,493
|
81,410
|
82,721
|
85,781
|
90,906
|
100,849
|
7.7
|
Argentina
|
49,500
|
50,582
|
51,000
|
50,020
|
52,665
|
53,157
|
49,390
|
3.8
|
Mexico
|
30,900
|
32,054
|
26,700
|
30,157
|
30,649
|
30,702
|
30,162
|
2.3
|
Australia
|
22,434
|
23,191
|
23,764
|
23,880
|
24,062
|
25,732
|
26,187
|
2.0
|
France
|
21,780
|
21,419
|
21,446
|
20,970
|
20,328
|
20,112
|
20,470
|
1.6
|
Germany
|
14,659b)
|
14,563b)
|
14,542b)
|
17,134
|
16,207
|
15,897
|
15,962
|
1.2
|
Hungary
|
1,598
|
1,571
|
1,420
|
1,159
|
999
|
910
|
928
|
0.1
|
World total
|
1,278,088
|
1,293,755
|
1,287,398
|
1,281,376
|
1,289,032
|
1,302,989
|
1,314,218
|
100.0
|