Total number of hogs and pigs 2000-2024
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In 2023, the United States was home to approximately 74.1 million hogs and pigs. Since the year 2000, the number of hogs and pigs in the country has risen by about 15 million.
Hog breeding and slaughter in the U.S.
In 2021, over six million hogs and pigs were kept for breeding in the United States. Many more hogs are slaughtered than kept for breeding in the United States, however. Roughly 125.3 million hogs were slaughtered within the country in 2022.
Number of pigs worldwide
There were over 700 million pigs in the world as of 2023, over half of which were located in China, specifically. The European Union stood in second place, accounting for about 134 million heads. China and the EU were also responsible for producing a combined total of almost 78 million metric tons of pork in the same year.
