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Livestock units. By species. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Livestock units. By species. Counties, areas and provinces 2009
Bovine Ovine Caprine Swine Equine Mother rabbits Poultry Total
Alt Camp 412 464 79 15,958 100 59 14,142 31,214
Alt Empordà 25,106 3,593 211 104,234 786 106 12,876 146,910
Alt Penedès 2,140 1,669 37 2,408 178 178 10,642 17,252
Alt Urgell 19,546 2,106 208 10,495 400 15 2,420 35,190
Alta Ribagorça 2,644 1,248 51 480 178 1 4 4,608
Anoia 1,693 1,009 74 29,626 204 454 6,704 39,763
Bages 10,843 2,147 380 78,121 514 786 10,932 103,722
Baix Camp 509 1,262 230 14,286 429 297 25,133 42,146
Baix Ebre 1,294 1,124 489 26,323 172 1,321 57,089 87,813
Baix Empordà 6,819 1,987 188 34,649 316 34 7,331 51,323
Baix LLobregat 491 542 79 286 360 17 86 1,860
Baix Penedès 426 552 8 3,572 81 10 6,693 11,343
Barcelonès 0 1 3 0 6 0 0 10
Berguedà 13,609 2,397 258 55,348 395 212 1,466 73,686
Cerdanya 9,884 516 39 1,120 1,730 5 3,631 16,925
Conca de Barberà 1,860 340 85 11,844 39 22 3,057 17,246
Garraf 120 699 82 2 214 0 219 1,335
Garrigues 4,394 1,588 192 71,475 27 147 127,968 205,791
Garrotxa 12,566 1,652 148 21,618 920 107 5,829 42,841
Gironès 11,842 724 123 25,982 88 44 7,701 46,504
Maresme 2,057 281 70 2,737 462 89 4,719 10,414
Montsià 775 758 103 38,262 124 248 23,404 63,674
Noguera 17,675 4,249 235 244,080 200 435 42,972 309,846
Osona 45,682 4,074 560 185,228 737 436 2,767 239,484
Pallars Jussà 7,180 4,575 303 32,592 785 33 3,132 48,599
Pallars Sobirà 10,047 2,514 125 3,345 1,694 9 1,273 19,008
Pla d'Urgell 6,154 951 219 94,418 142 57 81,361 183,302
Pla de l'Estany 9,137 1,090 108 32,402 108 169 6,286 49,302
Priorat 270 143 98 1,571 112 53 2,092 4,340
Ribera d'Ebre 47 588 374 18,821 77 76 7,536 27,519
Ripollès 16,645 1,220 132 4,562 1,075 11 65 23,710
Segarra 4,590 521 43 88,748 10 113 15,943 109,967
Segrià 30,591 4,005 244 233,634 173 339 50,572 319,558
Selva 10,382 1,302 761 20,325 267 66 12,675 45,778
Solsonès 6,447 2,151 170 44,198 202 114 5,946 59,228
Tarragonès 1,047 276 36 1,659 118 35 8,907 12,077
Terra Alta 393 895 146 12,422 5 82 12,270 26,211
Urgell 4,964 1,508 117 98,848 187 142 34,266 140,032
Val d'Aran 7,315 449 35 4,065 399 7 151 12,422
Vallès Occidental 2,102 771 54 4,465 806 78 2,264 10,540
Vallès Oriental 13,949 2,069 280 23,913 663 294 4,616 45,783
Catalonia 323,646 60,008 7,175 1,698,124 15,482 6,701 627,140 2,738,275
Metropolità 18,599 3,663 486 31,400 2,297 478 11,685 68,607
Comarques Gironines 92,496 11,569 1,671 243,772 3,560 538 52,763 406,368
Camp de Tarragona 4,098 2,484 529 45,319 798 465 53,331 107,023
Terres de l'Ebre 2,509 3,365 1,112 95,829 378 1,726 100,299 205,217
Ponent 68,367 12,821 1,049 831,204 739 1,233 353,082 1,268,495
Comarques Centrals 76,581 10,770 1,368 362,895 1,847 1,548 21,110 476,120
Alt Pirineu i Aran 56,615 11,409 761 52,097 5,187 71 10,612 136,751
Penedès 4,380 3,928 201 35,608 676 643 24,258 69,693
Barcelona 91,527 15,334 1,840 381,408 4,531 2,529 44,414 541,584
Girona 98,694 12,169 1,713 244,645 4,666 554 52,781 415,221
Lleida 126,391 26,105 1,973 927,352 5,029 1,416 369,622 1,457,887
Tarragona 7,034 6,401 1,649 144,719 1,256 2,202 160,323 323,583
Source: Idescat, based on the Agricultural census of INE.

Last update: February 22, 2012.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Livestock
Includes animals on the operation, plus transhumant livestock and livestock as part of an integration or contract scheme i.e. that implies dependence on supplies and sales.
Livestock unit (UR)
Unit used to measure the livestock sector that is obtained by applying a coefficient to each species and type in order to be able to express different species in terms of the same equivalent unit.

Methodological aspects

The Agricultural Census is a large-scale statistical operation carried out every ten years. Its objective is to collect, compile and disseminate information that allows us to understand the structure of the agricultural sector at a given point in time.

The aspects covered by the census include farm size, tenure status, irrigation methods, land use, livestock, labour, rural development and storage facilities.

In Catalonia, the 1962, 1982, 2009 and 2020 agricultural censuses were carried out by Spain's National Statistics Institute (INE), while the 1989 and 1999 censuses were carried out by Idescat, with support from the then Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Food and Environment (now the Ministry of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda).

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".