China has a chicken-to-person ratio of 3:1, with 4.5 billion chickens for 1.5 billion people. Brunei has the highest ratio at 40 chickens per person. China also has the largest number of pigs and sheep, while Brazil and India have the most livestock. New Zealand has the highest sheep-to-person ratio.
The chicken-to-person ratio in China is 3:1: there are about 4.5 billion chickens for about 1.5 billion people. Despite its extremely high chicken population, China doesn’t have the highest chicken-to-person ratio in the world; Brunei has around 40 chickens per person. The global chicken-to-person ratio is about 3 to 1, with the average world stock of chickens at any given time being around 19 billion chickens.
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Besides chickens, China also has the largest number of pigs and sheep, with more than 450 million pigs and about 125 million sheep.
Brazil and India have the largest number of livestock, around 200 million and 170 million head of cattle, respectively. Brazil also has one of the highest livestock-to-person ratios in the world, with just over one cow per person.
The country with the highest sheep-to-person ratio in the world is New Zealand, with around 7.5 sheep per person.
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