Animals and animal production

Topics Agriculture and forestry, fisheries

21.2 mn pigs

10.8 mn cattle

13.1 bn eggs

Press releases

15 March 2023 Egg production up 1.4% in 2022

In 2022, roughly 13.2 billion eggs were produced in Germany in holdings with at least 3,000 places for laying hens. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that production increased by 1.4% compared with the previous year.

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8 February 2023 Meat production down 8.1% in 2022

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21 December 2022 Pig population has dropped by 18.2% since 2020

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5 August 2022 Meat production in 1st half of 2022 down 7.9% on a year earlier

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27 June 2022 Smallest pig population since German reunification

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8 June 2022 0.2% of the pigs for fattening slaughtered in 2021 were unfit for consumption

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Further Press Releases

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Slaughtering

Cattle

Pigs

Sheep

Poultry

Organic livestock farming

Database

GENESIS-Online

More data are available from the GENESIS-Online database on the themes:

Livestock and -slaughtery
Poultry statistics

The database content will continuously be extended, and links will be provided here.

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Commercial meat production

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Hens keeping places by forms of keeping

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Production of poultry meat