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) | |
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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 |