{"id": 1290877, "name": "Number of buffalo", "unit": "animals", "createdAt": "2026-07-10T14:37:32.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-07-10T14:37:32.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "1890-2024", "datasetId": 8060, "shortUnit": "", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "buffalo", "catalogPath": "grapher/agriculture/2026-07-08/livestock_counts/livestock_counts#buffalo", "descriptionShort": "The number of buffalo alive at a given time.", "descriptionFromProducer": "Item: Buffalo\n\nDescription: Buffalo This subclass includes: -  buffalo, species of Bubalus, mainly bubalus, ami, depressicornis, nanus (buffalo, Indian buffalo, water buffalo, carabao, and Pigmi buffalo) - caffers, African buffalo, species of Syncerus -  bisons, species of Bison, American and European This subclass does not include: - cattle, species of Bos, mainly bovis, taurus, indicus, grunniens, gaurus, grontalis and sondaicus, cf. 02111\n\nMetric: Stocks\n\nDescription: Number of animals of the species present in the country at the time of enumeration. It includes animals raised either for draft purposes or for meat, eggs and dairy production or kept for breeding. Live animals in captivity for fur or skin such as foxes, minks etc. are not included in the system although furskin trade is reported. The enumeration to be chosen, when more than one survey is taken, is the closest to the beginning of the calendar year. Livestock data are reported in number of heads (units) except for poultry, rabbits and other rodents which are reported in thousand units. Source: FAO Statistics Division.", "descriptionProcessing": "- We combine data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAOSTAT), available from 1961 onwards, with long-run historical estimates from HYDE for the period 1890 to 1950.\n- HYDE reports figures for its own set of world sub-regions, which we aggregate into continents and a world total.\n- HYDE reports counts in thousands of animals, which we convert to the number of animals.", "type": "float", "datasetName": "Livestock counts", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2026-07-08", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"name": "Buffalo", "unit": "animals"}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "major", "presentation": {"titlePublic": "Number of buffalo", "attributionShort": "UN FAO", "topicTagsLinks": ["Meat & Dairy Production"]}, "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 1890}, {"id": 1900}, {"id": 1910}, {"id": 1920}, {"id": 1930}, {"id": 1940}, {"id": 1950}, {"id": 1961}, {"id": 1962}, {"id": 1963}, {"id": 1964}, {"id": 1965}, {"id": 1966}, {"id": 1967}, {"id": 1968}, {"id": 1969}, {"id": 1970}, {"id": 1971}, {"id": 1972}, {"id": 1973}, {"id": 1974}, {"id": 1975}, {"id": 1976}, {"id": 1977}, {"id": 1978}, {"id": 1979}, {"id": 1980}, {"id": 1981}, {"id": 1982}, {"id": 1983}, {"id": 1984}, {"id": 1985}, {"id": 1986}, {"id": 1987}, {"id": 1988}, {"id": 1989}, {"id": 1990}, {"id": 1991}, {"id": 1992}, {"id": 1993}, {"id": 1994}, {"id": 1995}, {"id": 1996}, {"id": 1997}, {"id": 1998}, {"id": 1999}, {"id": 2000}, {"id": 2001}, {"id": 2002}, {"id": 2003}, {"id": 2004}, {"id": 2005}, {"id": 2006}, {"id": 2007}, {"id": 2008}, {"id": 2009}, {"id": 2010}, {"id": 2011}, {"id": 2012}, {"id": 2013}, {"id": 2014}, {"id": 2015}, {"id": 2016}, {"id": 2017}, {"id": 2018}, {"id": 2019}, {"id": 2020}, {"id": 2021}, {"id": 2022}, {"id": 2023}, {"id": 2024}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 273, "name": "Africa", "code": "OWID_AFR"}, {"id": 16, "name": "Albania", "code": "ALB"}, {"id": 22, "name": "Armenia", "code": "ARM"}, {"id": 275, "name": "Asia", "code": "OWID_ASI"}, {"id": 25, "name": "Azerbaijan", "code": "AZE"}, {"id": 28, "name": "Bangladesh", "code": "BGD"}, {"id": 33, "name": "Bhutan", "code": "BTN"}, {"id": 37, "name": "Brazil", "code": "BRA"}, {"id": 38, "name": "Brunei", "code": "BRN"}, {"id": 39, "name": "Bulgaria", "code": "BGR"}, {"id": 42, "name": "Cambodia", "code": "KHM"}, {"id": 44, "name": "Canada", "code": "CAN"}, {"id": 171, "name": "China", "code": "CHN"}, {"id": 170, "name": "Colombia", "code": "COL"}, {"id": 165, "name": "Croatia", "code": "HRV"}, {"id": 163, "name": "Cyprus", "code": "CYP"}, {"id": 162, "name": "Czechia", "code": "CZE"}, {"id": 161, "name": "Denmark", "code": "DNK"}, {"id": 225, "name": "East Timor", "code": "TLS"}, {"id": 65, "name": "Egypt", "code": "EGY"}, {"id": 156, "name": "Estonia", "code": "EST"}, {"id": 276, "name": "Europe", "code": "OWID_EUR"}, {"id": 155, "name": "Finland", "code": "FIN"}, {"id": 152, "name": "Georgia", "code": "GEO"}, {"id": 6, "name": "Germany", "code": "DEU"}, {"id": 149, "name": "Greece", "code": "GRC"}, {"id": 144, "name": "Hong Kong", "code": "HKG"}, {"id": 138, "name": "Hungary", "code": "HUN"}, {"id": 137, "name": "India", "code": "IND"}, {"id": 136, "name": "Indonesia", "code": "IDN"}, {"id": 135, "name": "Iran", "code": "IRN"}, {"id": 134, "name": "Iraq", "code": "IRQ"}, {"id": 2, "name": "Ireland", "code": "IRL"}, {"id": 8, "name": "Italy", "code": "ITA"}, {"id": 14, "name": "Japan", "code": "JPN"}, {"id": 130, "name": "Jordan", "code": "JOR"}, {"id": 131, "name": "Kazakhstan", "code": "KAZ"}, {"id": 125, "name": "Laos", "code": "LAO"}, {"id": 122, "name": "Latvia", "code": "LVA"}, {"id": 119, "name": "Lithuania", "code": "LTU"}, {"id": 210, "name": "Luxembourg", "code": "LUX"}, {"id": 116, "name": "Malaysia", "code": "MYS"}, {"id": 212, "name": "Malta", "code": "MLT"}, {"id": 213, "name": "Mauritius", "code": "MUS"}, {"id": 222, "name": "Micronesia (country)", "code": "FSM"}, {"id": 142, "name": "Myanmar", "code": "MMR"}, {"id": 107, "name": "Nepal", "code": "NPL"}, {"id": 5, "name": "Netherlands", "code": "NLD"}, {"id": 294, "name": "North America", "code": "OWID_NAM"}, {"id": 66, "name": "North Macedonia", "code": "MKD"}, {"id": 277, "name": "Oceania", "code": "OWID_OCE"}, {"id": 101, "name": "Pakistan", "code": "PAK"}, {"id": 96, "name": "Philippines", "code": "PHL"}, {"id": 11, "name": "Poland", "code": "POL"}, {"id": 95, "name": "Portugal", "code": "PRT"}, {"id": 92, "name": "Romania", "code": "ROU"}, {"id": 12, "name": "Russia", "code": "RUS"}, {"id": 268, "name": "Serbia and Montenegro", "code": "OWID_SRM"}, {"id": 86, "name": "Singapore", "code": "SGP"}, {"id": 85, "name": "Slovakia", "code": "SVK"}, {"id": 83, "name": "Slovenia", "code": "SVN"}, {"id": 295, "name": "South America", "code": "OWID_SAM"}, {"id": 9, "name": "Spain", "code": "ESP"}, {"id": 141, "name": "Sri Lanka", "code": "LKA"}, {"id": 234, "name": "Suriname", "code": "SUR"}, {"id": 10, "name": "Sweden", "code": "SWE"}, {"id": 77, "name": "Syria", "code": "SYR"}, {"id": 198, "name": "Taiwan", "code": "TWN"}, {"id": 76, "name": "Tajikistan", "code": "TJK"}, {"id": 75, "name": "Thailand", "code": "THA"}, {"id": 73, "name": "Trinidad and Tobago", "code": "TTO"}, {"id": 70, "name": "Turkey", "code": "TUR"}, {"id": 270, "name": "USSR", "code": "OWID_USS"}, {"id": 13, "name": "United States", "code": "USA"}, {"id": 238, "name": "Venezuela", "code": "VEN"}, {"id": 84, "name": "Vietnam", "code": "VNM"}, {"id": 355, "name": "World", "code": "OWID_WRL"}, {"id": 271, "name": "Yugoslavia", "code": "OWID_YGS"}]}}, "origins": [{"id": 15729, "title": "Historical counts of livestock mammals", "description": "Historical estimates of livestock numbers for eight domestic mammal species (asses, buffalo, cattle, goats, horses, mules, pigs and sheep), assembled by Kees Klein Goldewijk for the History Database of the Global Environment (HYDE). No bird species are included.\n\nHYDE built the long-run series by combining two existing sources. For the period before 1961 it used the historical statistics compiled by B.R. Mitchell (International Historical Statistics), and from 1961 onwards it used data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAOSTAT).", "producer": "PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency", "citationFull": "Klein Goldewijk, K. (2005). Historical livestock estimates, History Database of the Global Environment (HYDE), PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.\n\nThis HYDE dataset combines two sources: historical statistics compiled by B.R. Mitchell (International Historical Statistics: The Americas 1750-1988, 1993; and Europe 1750-1993 and Africa, Asia & Oceania 1750-1993, 1998) for the period before 1961, and data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAOSTAT) from 1961 onwards.", "attribution": "HYDE (2005)", "attributionShort": "HYDE", "urlMain": "http://web.archive.org/web/20181117155908/http://themasites.pbl.nl/tridion/en/themasites/hyde/landusedata/livestock/index-2.html", "urlDownload": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180509081100/http://themasites.pbl.nl/images/livestock_table_tcm61-36136.xls", "dateAccessed": "2026-07-08", "datePublished": "2005-08-29", "license": {"name": "CC BY-NC 4.0"}}, {"id": 12578, "title": "Production: Crops and livestock products", "description": "Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories:\n\n1) Crops primary: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded.\n\n2) Crops processed: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine.\n\n3) Live animals: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys.\n\n4) Livestock primary: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy.\n\n5) Livestock processed: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.\n", "producer": "Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations", "citationFull": "Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Production: Crops and livestock products (2025).", "attribution": "Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025)", "attributionShort": "FAOSTAT", "urlMain": "http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL", "urlDownload": "https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_(Normalized).zip", "dateAccessed": "2026-02-25", "datePublished": "2025-12-31", "license": {"url": "http://www.fao.org/contact-us/terms/db-terms-of-use/en", "name": "CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO"}}]}