The number of animals killed in Uganda per year for meat, fish or shellfish
Over 59 million land animals are killed for meat in Uganda every year.
| Land animals1https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#home | Aquatic animals2Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics – Yearbook 2021 https://openknowledge.fao.org/items/d9ed1d60-d6f2-46d0-b423-103f846f2cba |
|---|---|
| Chickens – 52,695,000 | Wild Fish – 621,987 tonnes (no data on number of individual fish) |
| Goats – 3,021,985 | Farmed Fish – 138,558 tonnes (no data on number of individual fish) |
| Pigs – 2,091,065 | |
| Cattle (cows and buffaloes) – 1,207,111 | |
| Sheep – 47,000 |
The number of animals killed in the world each year for meat, fish or shellfish
79 billion land animals are killed for meat and many trillions of fish and shellfish.
| Land animals | Aquatic animals |
|---|---|
| Chickens – 73,791,052,000 | Wild Fish – 790 billion to 2.3 trillion* |
| Turkeys – 603,557,000 | Farmed Fish – 51 to 167 billion fish* |
| Sheep and Lambs – 617,255,637 | Shellfish – many trillions* |
| Pigs – 1,400,092,105 | |
| Cattle – 331,952,042 | |
| Ducks – 4,309,522,000 | |
| Goose and Guinea Fowl – 748,725,000 | |
| Goats – 500,872,786 | |
| Horses – 4,595,650 | |
| Rabbits – 572,120,000 |
* Fish and shellfish counts do not include ~23 billion animals killed as bycatch (sea creatures unintentionally caught and released, often dead or fatally injured) nor ~68 billion feed fish (small fish fed to other fish farmed for human consumption).3https://fishcount.org.uk/
References
- 1
- 2Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics – Yearbook 2021 https://openknowledge.fao.org/items/d9ed1d60-d6f2-46d0-b423-103f846f2cba
- 3