Press release No. 219 of 28 June 2017
WIESBADEN – On reference day 3 May 2017, 27.1 million pigs were kept in Germany, as reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). According to provisional results of the semi-annual survey, the pig population decreased by roughly 276,000, or 1%, from November 2016. This was the lowest population recorded since November 2010.
Basic data and long time series are available in tables General and representative livestock survey (41311) in the GENESIS-Online database.