According to the related link below, the FAO estimates that there were 26.5 million dairy cows in the world in 2010. The statistic for number of beef cows in the world is more vague, because beef cows are lumped in with the "cattle" category, not individually as female mature bovines.
According to Statistics Canada 2013 (latest statistics), there are/was around 13.5 million cattle in Canada.
According to the International Erosion Control Association, who tracks overgrazing, the world's cattle herd went from 720 million in 1950 to 1.53 billion in 2001. As a comparative, the world population increased from 2.5 billion in 1950 to 6.1 billion in 2001. If you add in sheep and goats, the herd size increases to 3.3 billion. In Africa there are an estimated 230 million cattle, while India hold's the world's largest cattle population with 283.1 million. The United States has 98 million head of cattle, while China has 130 million head.
The world sheep population is approximately 1,202,920,000
1998 there were just over 26.7 million cattle in Australia, and about three million of these were dairy cattle, with the remaining being beef cattle. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, in June 2004, these figures had not changed a great deal. Beef cattle numbers were still about 23.3 million.
According to the related link below, the FAO estimates that there were 26.5 million dairy cows in the world in 2010. The statistic for number of beef cows in the world is more vague, because beef cows are lumped in with the "cattle" category, not individually as female mature bovines.
There are about 100 million cows overall in the US.
There are 10 million cattle in the UK as a whole. There are a little over 2 million adult dairy cows in the UK, a little under 2 million adult beef cows, and about 6 million younger animals. I'd estimate between 6-8 million in England.
India has more cows than any other country. There are over 280 MILLION (281,700,000) cows in India. That's more than a quarter of the entire world population of cows in JUST ONE COUNT(28.29% to be precise).To put that into perspective the United States has only 96,669,000 cows (less than half the number of cows that India has). The Indian cow population is higher than the American dog and cat populations combined (77.5 million dogs and 93.6 million owned cats).
About 67 million
About 2 million
There are about 9 million dairy cows in the United States. Dairy cows can make a lot more milk than in the past. In the 1940's there were 25 million cows.
According to Statistics Canada 2013 (latest statistics), there are/was around 13.5 million cattle in Canada.
U.K - 2.3 million USA - 9 million
Scotland does not have cows.
According to the International Erosion Control Association, who tracks overgrazing, the world's cattle herd went from 720 million in 1950 to 1.53 billion in 2001. As a comparative, the world population increased from 2.5 billion in 1950 to 6.1 billion in 2001. If you add in sheep and goats, the herd size increases to 3.3 billion. In Africa there are an estimated 230 million cattle, while India hold's the world's largest cattle population with 283.1 million. The United States has 98 million head of cattle, while China has 130 million head.
Over 1 Million