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Table 2 Details of the cattle population and numbers of animals slaughtered in the Nordic countries in 2019

From: Overview of the practices of on-farm emergency slaughter of cattle in the Nordic countries

 

Cattle population

Adult cows

Dairy cows

Beef Cows

Known number of cattle slaughtered

Number of cattle slaughtered in a slaughterhouse (% of known slaughtered)

Number of cattle slaughtered for domestic consumption (% of known slaughtered)

Number of OFES cattle (% of known slaughtered)

Denmark

1,500,000a

645,800a

563,000a

83,000a

468,000c,d

464,000 (99.1%)c

4000 (0.9%)d

Unknown

Finland

840,420a

318,360a

258,940

59,420

247,000c,d

242,940 (98.4%)c

4060 (1.6%)d

Unknown

Iceland

80,900 a

29,000a

26,200 a

2900 a

27,130c,d

22,730 (83.8%)c

4400 (16.2%)d

None

Norway

862,550b

307,484b

215,069b

92,415b

304,953b

292,153 (95.8%)b

Unknown

12,800 (4.2%)b

Sweden

1,404,670a

499,700a

301,380a

198,320a

441,780 c,d

432,770 (98.0%) c

9010 (2.0%)d

Unknown

  1. Data sources:
  2. aAnonymous. Bovine population—annual data 2019. European Commission’s official statistics body—Eurostat. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/APRO_MT_LSCATL__custom_697055/default/table?lang=en. Accessed 17 March 2022
  3. bAnonymous. The status of meat production 2019. In Norwegian. 2020. Animalia. https://www.animalia.no/contentassets/3dce35cde68a47b091097fa8c6ec2dd5/kjottets-tilstand-2019.pdf. Accessed 17 March 2022
  4. cAnonymous. Estimates of slaughtering, in slaughterhouses—annual data 2019. European Commision's official statistics body – Eurostat. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/APRO_MT_PANN/default/table?lang=en&category=agr.apro.apro_anip.apro_mt.apro_mt_p. Accessed 17 March 2022
  5. dAnonymous. Estimates of slaughtering, other than in slaughterhouses—annual data 2019. European Commission’s official statistics body – Eurostat. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/apro_mt_sloth/default/table?lang=en. Accessed 17 March 2022