Livestock (live animals) · FAOSTAT 2024
Goats: number of animals by country
The world had 1.19 billion goats in 2024, up 23% over ten years. The largest herds were in India (17.7%), China (9.9%), Nigeria (7.7%), together 35% of the world total.
- World total, 2024
- 1.19 billion head
- 10-year change
- +23%
- Countries reporting
- 181
- Largest herd
- India
World total, 1961–2024 (head)
Countries by number of animals, 2024
| # | Country | Head | Share | 10-year change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India I | 210,632,609 | 17.7% | +49% |
| 2 | China | 117,554,000 | 9.90% | −14% |
| 3 | Nigeria I | 90,970,883 | 7.66% | +26% |
| 4 | Pakistan | 87,035,000 | 7.33% | +31% |
| 5 | Ethiopia I | 53,982,678 | 4.55% | +85% |
| 6 | Chad E | 46,494,274 | 3.92% | +62% |
| 7 | Kenya | 38,426,161 | 3.24% | +41% |
| 8 | Mali | 33,803,901 | 2.85% | +77% |
| 9 | Sudan I | 31,879,279 | 2.68% | +2.7% |
| 10 | Tanzania I | 28,630,227 | 2.41% | +71% |
| 11 | Bangladesh | 27,117,000 | 2.28% | +6.6% |
| 12 | Mongolia | 22,920,180 | 1.93% | +4.1% |
| 13 | Niger | 22,031,302 | 1.86% | +48% |
| 14 | Indonesia I | 18,851,413 | 1.59% | +1.1% |
| 15 | Iran E | 18,107,525 | 1.52% | −11% |
| 16 | Uganda E | 17,401,773 | 1.47% | +24% |
| 17 | South Sudan E | 15,668,794 | 1.32% | +16% |
| 18 | Nepal | 15,289,954 | 1.29% | +50% |
| 19 | Malawi I | 13,790,630 | 1.16% | +134% |
| 20 | Brazil | 13,292,844 | 1.12% | +50% |
| 21 | Somalia I | 11,301,103 | 0.95% | −2.6% |
| 22 | Turkey | 10,822,084 | 0.91% | +4.6% |
| 23 | Burkina Faso I | 10,818,808 | 0.91% | −22% |
| 24 | Yemen I | 10,367,015 | 0.87% | +11% |
| 25 | Ghana I | 9,581,913 | 0.81% | +59% |
| 26 | Mexico I | 8,807,414 | 0.74% | +1.4% |
| 27 | Afghanistan E | 8,190,291 | 0.69% | +16% |
| 28 | Saudi Arabia I | 7,758,566 | 0.65% | +118% |
| 29 | Mauritania E | 7,149,823 | 0.60% | +1.0% |
| 30 | Senegal E | 6,918,321 | 0.58% | +29% |
| 31 | Cameroon I | 6,632,453 | 0.56% | +5.7% |
| 32 | Central African Republic I | 6,193,443 | 0.52% | +6.8% |
| 33 | Zambia I | 6,011,286 | 0.51% | +131% |
| 34 | Togo I | 5,960,087 | 0.50% | +102% |
| 35 | Morocco | 5,709,531 | 0.48% | −7.1% |
| 36 | Côte d'Ivoire | 5,447,608 | 0.46% | +289% |
| 37 | Australia E | 5,400,000 | 0.45% | +51% |
| 38 | South Africa | 5,100,449 | 0.43% | −15% |
| 39 | Algeria I | 5,071,523 | 0.43% | −1.1% |
| 40 | Zimbabwe | 4,883,669 | 0.41% | +15% |
| 41 | Guinea I | 4,829,211 | 0.41% | +93% |
| 42 | Turkmenistan | 4,779,099 | 0.40% | +66% |
| 43 | Burundi I | 4,523,288 | 0.38% | +87% |
| 44 | Angola I | 4,270,675 | 0.36% | −0.2% |
| 45 | DR Congo | 4,147,239 | 0.35% | +1.6% |
| 46 | Argentina | 4,121,846 | 0.35% | −6.3% |
| 47 | Mozambique | 4,101,030 | 0.35% | −14% |
| 48 | North Korea I | 4,040,502 | 0.34% | +10% |
| 49 | Benin | 3,839,654 | 0.32% | +119% |
| 50 | Philippines | 3,824,485 | 0.32% | +3.5% |
| 51 | Uzbekistan | 3,595,100 | 0.30% | +14% |
| 52 | Vietnam I | 3,166,435 | 0.27% | +98% |
| 53 | Libya I | 2,726,038 | 0.23% | +5.7% |
| 54 | Oman | 2,592,694 | 0.22% | +22% |
| 55 | Greece | 2,576,800 | 0.22% | −46% |
| 56 | United States | 2,470,000 | 0.21% | −5.4% |
| 57 | Spain | 2,360,950 | 0.20% | −13% |
| 58 | Myanmar E | 2,300,000 | 0.19% | −59% |
| 59 | Bolivia | 2,273,735 | 0.19% | +5.4% |
| 60 | United Arab Emirates E | 2,242,959 | 0.19% | +2.8% |
| 61 | Tajikistan I | 2,226,215 | 0.19% | +22% |
| 62 | Syria | 2,080,141 | 0.18% | −9.0% |
| 63 | Eritrea I | 1,935,590 | 0.16% | +6.1% |
| 64 | Haiti I | 1,846,861 | 0.16% | −11% |
| 65 | Namibia I | 1,785,997 | 0.15% | +10% |
| 66 | Peru | 1,749,263 | 0.15% | −8.2% |
| 67 | Madagascar I | 1,738,386 | 0.15% | +18% |
| 68 | Russia I | 1,687,316 | 0.14% | −19% |
| 69 | Kazakhstan | 1,678,326 | 0.14% | −29% |
| 70 | Rwanda I | 1,624,105 | 0.14% | −36% |
| 71 | Romania | 1,426,100 | 0.12% | +8.6% |
| 72 | Iraq I | 1,353,075 | 0.11% | +11% |
| 73 | France | 1,339,000 | 0.11% | +4.2% |
| 74 | Venezuela I | 1,336,543 | 0.11% | −6.7% |
| 75 | Botswana E | 1,205,792 | 0.10% | −25% |
| 76 | Egypt E | 1,140,000 | 0.10% | −73% |
| 77 | Tunisia E | 1,129,662 | 0.10% | −9.5% |
| 78 | Colombia | 1,112,002 | 0.09% | +7.1% |
| 79 | Italy | 911,000 | 0.08% | −2.8% |
| 80 | Jordan | 880,126 | 0.07% | +2.6% |
| 81 | Laos | 843,000 | 0.07% | +75% |
| 82 | Guinea-Bissau E | 830,966 | 0.07% | +11% |
| 83 | Sierra Leone I | 807,401 | 0.07% | −10% |
| 84 | Lesotho E | 700,831 | 0.06% | −15% |
| 85 | Cuba E | 667,000 | 0.06% | +9.6% |
| 86 | Kyrgyzstan | 659,048 | 0.06% | −28% |
| 87 | Albania | 615,188 | 0.05% | −32% |
| 88 | Jamaica I | 602,785 | 0.05% | +16% |
| 89 | Netherlands | 552,000 | 0.05% | +25% |
| 90 | Eswatini | 531,407 | 0.04% | +20% |
| 91 | Djibouti I | 520,013 | 0.04% | +1.0% |
| 92 | Thailand E | 483,791 | 0.04% | +8.1% |
| 93 | Chile E | 418,405 | 0.04% | −7.0% |
| 94 | Ukraine | 418,300 | 0.04% | −13% |
| 95 | Azerbaijan E | 410,000 | 0.03% | −38% |
| 96 | Qatar E | 371,701 | 0.03% | +39% |
| 97 | Sri Lanka | 351,450 | 0.03% | +18% |
| 98 | Gambia | 350,728 | 0.03% | −2.5% |
| 99 | Lebanon E | 349,391 | 0.03% | −36% |
| 100 | Malaysia | 344,210 | 0.03% | −20% |
| 101 | Liberia I | 337,439 | 0.03% | −2.2% |
| 102 | Congo I | 325,484 | 0.03% | +0.1% |
| 103 | Portugal | 318,650 | 0.03% | −17% |
| 104 | South Korea E | 316,833 | 0.03% | +26% |
| 105 | Fiji I | 284,591 | 0.02% | +13% |
| 106 | Cyprus | 228,540 | 0.02% | −4.8% |
| 107 | Kuwait E | 220,640 | 0.02% | +44% |
| 108 | Dominican Republic E | 201,472 | 0.02% | −15% |
| 109 | Germany | 168,300 | 0.01% | +44% |
| 110 | Bulgaria | 150,000 | 0.01% | −48% |
| 111 | Cabo Verde | 147,123 | 0.01% | −25% |
| 112 | Timor-Leste I | 145,192 | 0.01% | −19% |
| 113 | Moldova | 138,130 | 0.01% | −4.7% |
| 114 | Taiwan E | 122,316 | 0.01% | −24% |
| 115 | Comoros I | 121,233 | 0.01% | −0.6% |
| 116 | Serbia | 119,061 | 0.01% | −46% |
| 117 | Gabon E | 117,387 | 0.01% | +6.7% |
| 118 | Paraguay I | 117,040 | 0.01% | −19% |
| 119 | Guatemala I | 116,005 | 0.01% | +3.7% |
| 120 | United Kingdom | 111,000 | 0.01% | +11% |
| 121 | Israel | 109,307 | 0.01% | −29% |
| 122 | North Macedonia | 97,918 | 0.01% | +20% |
| 123 | Austria | 95,810 | 0.01% | +33% |
| 124 | New Zealand | 88,428 | 0.01% | −9.2% |
| 125 | Switzerland | 86,796 | 0.01% | −1.2% |
| 126 | Guyana I | 82,529 | 0.01% | +0.5% |
| 127 | Costa Rica I | 77,954 | 0.01% | −2.6% |
| 128 | Norway | 75,000 | 0.01% | +17% |
| 129 | Croatia | 68,000 | 0.01% | +12% |
| 130 | Poland | 63,492 | 0.01% | −22% |
| 131 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 62,162 | 0.01% | −16% |
| 132 | Bhutan | 55,819 | 0.00% | +14% |
| 133 | Georgia | 49,300 | 0.00% | −19% |
| 134 | Belarus | 48,000 | 0.00% | −29% |
| 135 | Hungary | 31,300 | 0.00% | −57% |
| 136 | Canada I | 30,007 | 0.00% | +0.0% |
| 137 | Czechia | 27,577 | 0.00% | +13% |
| 138 | Ecuador | 27,531 | 0.00% | +32% |
| 139 | Montenegro | 26,833 | 0.00% | −19% |
| 140 | Grenada I | 25,457 | 0.00% | +97% |
| 141 | Slovenia | 25,125 | 0.00% | +18% |
| 142 | Honduras I | 24,684 | 0.00% | −1.3% |
| 143 | Bahrain | 24,500 | 0.00% | +32% |
| 144 | Mauritius I | 23,038 | 0.00% | −13% |
| 145 | Armenia | 19,486 | 0.00% | −36% |
| 146 | Uruguay I | 18,520 | 0.00% | +6.4% |
| 147 | Japan I | 16,466 | 0.00% | −3.1% |
| 148 | French Polynesia I | 15,665 | 0.00% | −5.1% |
| 149 | Bahamas I | 15,132 | 0.00% | +0.9% |
| 150 | Antigua and Barbuda E | 15,000 | 0.00% | −37% |
| 151 | Tonga E | 14,826 | 0.00% | +9.8% |
| 152 | Saint Lucia E | 14,792 | 0.00% | −5.8% |
| 153 | El Salvador E | 13,745 | 0.00% | −9.3% |
| 154 | Lithuania | 13,490 | 0.00% | −2.5% |
| 155 | Trinidad and Tobago | 12,687 | 0.00% | +85% |
| 156 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines I | 10,458 | 0.00% | +11% |
| 157 | Equatorial Guinea I | 9,955 | 0.00% | +4.8% |
| 158 | Dominica I | 9,706 | 0.00% | +0.1% |
| 159 | Vanuatu I | 9,509 | 0.00% | −44% |
| 160 | Latvia | 9,060 | 0.00% | −28% |
| 161 | Panama I | 8,998 | 0.00% | +6.4% |
| 162 | Saint Kitts and Nevis I | 8,121 | 0.00% | +103% |
| 163 | Ireland | 7,300 | 0.00% | −15% |
| 164 | Malta | 6,670 | 0.00% | +44% |
| 165 | Sao Tome and Principe I | 6,201 | 0.00% | +8.8% |
| 166 | Seychelles I | 5,847 | 0.00% | +6.3% |
| 167 | Barbados I | 5,655 | 0.00% | +4.7% |
| 168 | Finland | 5,140 | 0.00% | +18% |
| 169 | Micronesia E | 4,926 | 0.00% | +9.5% |
| 170 | Luxembourg | 4,422 | 0.00% | +2.3% |
| 171 | Suriname E | 4,382 | 0.00% | +8.0% |
| 172 | Cook Islands E | 4,053 | 0.00% | −10% |
| 173 | Puerto Rico E | 3,536 | 0.00% | −20% |
| 174 | Estonia | 3,200 | 0.00% | −36% |
| 175 | Papua New Guinea I | 3,150 | 0.00% | +5.0% |
| 176 | Brunei | 3,072 | 0.00% | −55% |
| 177 | Iceland | 1,888 | 0.00% | +92% |
| 178 | New Caledonia E | 1,550 | 0.00% | −38% |
| 179 | Singapore E | 754 | 0.00% | +13% |
| 180 | Hong Kong I | 680 | 0.00% | 0.0% |
| 181 | Belize I | 193 | 0.00% | +7.2% |
E = estimated by FAO, I = imputed by FAO, X = from an external organisation; other figures are official.
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Source: FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Crops and livestock products. Accessed on 4 November 2026. fao.org/faostat. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Charts, rankings and changes calculated by Husfarm.