New Zealand is home to 3 million people and 60 million sheep Statistics NZ Home > Browse for statistics > Population > Population mythbusters > New Zealand is home to 3 million people and 60 million sheep New Zealand is home to 3 million people and 60 million sheep Sections on this page Population mythbusters It’s widely believed that New Zealand has 20 sheep for every person – information that adds weight to myriad sheep jokes. How accurate is this these days? To begin with, we must find out how many people live in New Zealand. The population passed the 4 million mark in 2003. Our population clock put the event at precisely 5.30 pm on Thursday, 24 April. By 30 June 2015, the estimated resident population had reached 4.60 million people. Next, we must find out how many sheep we have. According to Statistics NZ's agricultural production statistics, we had an estimated 29.5 million sheep at 30 June 2015. This means that the sheep-to-person ratio has fallen and contrary to popular belief there are actually about six sheep per person, not 20. Conclusion This myth is busted.

The information is now out of date. However, it is still true that people in New Zealand are greatly outnumbered by sheep, and our sheep-to-person ratio is high relative to other countries. It’s still twice as high as Australia's, for example, which currently has fewer than three sheep per person. As with New Zealand, this is due to declining sheep numbers and a growing human population. New Zealanders have also long been outnumbered by cattle, although not to the same extent as by sheep. There are currently 6.4 million dairy and 3.6 million beef cattle in New Zealand. While the cattle population is growing at a slower rate than the human population, there has been a notable shift in the make-up of the cattle population. In 1994, 43.2 percent of cattle were dairy cattle. By 2015, that proportion had increased to 64.0 percent. A bit of sheep history New Zealand sheep numbers peaked in 1982, with a total of 70.3 million sheep. In the same year, 3.18 million people lived in New Zealand. This works out to 22 sheep per person.

Sheep numbers have gradually declined since the mid-1980s, due to factors such as depressed wool prices, droughts in the 1990s, and competition from other land-intensive farming activities (eg dairy and forestry). While sheep numbers stabilised and even grew slightly in the mid-2000s, numbers soon decreased again, reaching the low of 29.5 million in 2015. Some sheep facts from An Encyclopedia of New Zealand for the historians among us: New Zealand's first sheep were set ashore by Captain Cook in 1773. Rapid sheep population growth in the 1850s and 1860s was due mostly to permanent immigration, rather than natural increase. In 1864 alone, 13,000 sheep arrived in Canterbury from Australia. Droughts meant that sheep could always be bought cheaply from Australia. Drought continues to affect Australian farmers and sheep numbers. The first shipment of frozen lamb and mutton sailed to London from Port Chalmers on the Dunedin in 1882. For your information 35 Interesting Facts about New Zealand Not enough facts yet?

Read 10 WEIRD NZ facts . Top Value Qualifications The graduates from New Zealand’s universities who tend to earn the highest salaries are those qualified in sciences, engineering and management & commerce. Creative arts, food, hospitality and personal services graduates tended to have lower salaries. Another Rainy Day? The highest rainfall in a year in New Zealand was a drenching 18.4 metres (60 feet) in 1997-1998 at Cropp River on the west of the South Island. By contrast, the lowest rainfall was a miserly 167 mm (6.6 inches) in 1963-1964 at Alexandra, Central Otago. Head of State New Zealand’s Head of State is Queen Elizabeth. ‘God Save The Queen’ and ‘God Defend New Zealand’ are New Zealand’s two official national anthems. Although they have equal status, ‘God Defend New Zealand’ is sung at 100% of sporting occasions. Part of the ceremony at which immigrants become New Zealand citizens involves singing ‘God Defend New Zealand’. Everyone at the ceremony sings it together, so you don’t have to sing on your own.

A Sporting Nation According to the most recent numbers from SPARC and the NZRU, the most popular sports in New Zealand, measured by club memberships, are as follows: • Rugby Union: 136,059 • Cricket 102,759 Tourism 18% of New Zealand’s export earnings and 9% of New Zealand’s economy, as measured by GDP, are dependent on tourism. Tourism supports more than 10% of New Zealand jobs. Fatty Foods For each person who lives here, New Zealand produces 100 kg of butter and 65 kg of cheese each year. Summer Christmas Christmas in New Zealand follows soon after midsummer’s day. Many northern hemisphere traditions prevail in NZ, including tinsel-covered pine trees and christmas cards portraying snow & reindeer. The pohutukawa tree comes into peak-bloom in late December and is known as New Zealand’s Christmas tree. Largest Lake New Zealand’s largest lake is Lake Taupo, extending to 616 square kilometres (or 238 sq miles). This makes it almost identical in size to the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia and slightly smaller than Singapore.

Lake Taupo formed in the crater left behind after a supervolcano erupted 26,500 years ago. Happy Families? • 24% of New Zealand families have only one parent. • Over 40% of Maori children live in one-parent families. • 17% of NZ European children live in one-parent families. • 26% of children in both the US and UK live in one-parent families. • 14% of children in Germany live in one-parent families. In The Real Deep South It’s a fact: at 41.2o South, Wellington is the most southerly capital city on the planet. Cities on similar latitudes in the Northern hemisphere are Barcelona, Istanbul and Chicago. City Of Firsts The City of Dunedin is home to: • New Zealand’s oldest university. • New Zealand’s first newspaper. • New Zealand’s first botanic gardens. Bad For Your Health • Since 1990, total tobacco consumption in NZ has fallen by over one-third. • One in five deaths in New Zealand is caused by tobacco smoking.

According to the 2006 census: • 18% of New Zealand’s adult population classed themselves as regular smokers. Older surveys had found that: • 50% of Maori, 30% of Pacific Islander and 20% of European people smoke. Dangerous Drivers? Latest annual road deaths for every 100,000 of population show that New Zealand’s roads are getting safer. Road Deaths Per Year: • Great Britain: 3.0 per 100,000 people (2010) • Germany: 4.4 (2010) • Canada: 7.0 (2011) • United States: 10.6 (2010) The major reason for more deaths in NZ compared to the UK is fewer multi-lane highways in NZ. Disease Free One fact about New Zealand that is a relief to all Kiwis is that New Zealand’s sheep are free of scrapie. Scrapie is a brain disease similar to BSE that is present in sheep in many other countries. It’s thought BSE was caused by scrapie jumping the “species barrier” from sheep to cows.

Cattle in NZ are free of BSE. As a precaution against the spread of vCJD (Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) people from the UK are not permitted to donate blood in New Zealand. Highest Mountain New Zealand’s (and Australasia’s) highest mountain is Aoraki Mount Cook. It is 3,754 metres (12,316 ft) high. The mountain formerly appeared on maps as Mount Cook. In 1998, the mountain was officially renamed Aoraki Mount Cook to incorporate its Maori name. The renaming was part of a settlement in which the Crown also returned ownership of the mountain to the Ngai Tahu tribe, who then gifted it back to the New Zealand nation. Aoraki translates from the Ngai Tahu language as “cloud piercer”. Prisoners • 94% of those in jail in NZ are males. • 50% are Maori. • 12% are Pacific People. The Shaky Isles Until the earthquake in Christchurch in February 2011, the last fatal earthquake in New Zealand had been on the West Coast of the South Island in May 1968.

Three deaths resulted at that time. 181 people were killed in Christchurch, 115 of them in the collapse of the Canterbury Television building. A Nation of Drinkers? Compared with some other countries, New Zealanders are not heavy drinkers. The average New Zealander drinks: • 5% less alcohol than the average Australian. • 12% less alcohol than the average Briton. • 30% less alcohol than the average German. • 40% less alcohol than the average Irish. Big Spenders The biggest contributors to New Zealand’s Tourism earnings, accounting for 59% of all money spent, are: • Australians 29% Free Trade New Zealand currently (2013) has free trade agreements with: Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Lao PDR, Myanmar (Burma), Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Negotiations are in progress with: Belarus, Gulf States (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE), India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Peru, Russia and USA. Renewable Energy Currently New Zealand generates about 10% of its electricity geothermally from volcanic heat.

Another 55% of the country’s electricity is generated by water flowing through hydroelectic dams. Wind-power accounts for less than 5% of electricity needs, although this is planned to increase significantly in the years ahead. By 2025, the plan is that 90% of New Zealand’s electricity will come from renewable sources. Seeing The Wood 30% of New Zealand’s land is forested. Forestry accounts for 12% of New Zealand’s exports. This is expected to increase as more plantations mature. Car Crazy • With 2.5 million cars for four million people, including children, New Zealand’s car ownership rate is one of the world’s highest. • New Zealanders make only about 2% of their journeys by bus and fewer than 1% by rail. Where Have All The Sheep Gone? From the early 1980s, when NZ was home to over 70 million sheep, the population has declined to around 31 million (2013 data). This means the oft-quoted statistic, that NZ has 20 sheep for each human, is wrong! Nowadays it’s only about 7 to 1.

This decline hasn’t stopped NZ from cornering 50% of all international trade in sheepmeat. Unlike the human population, the majority of New Zealand’s sheep are based on the South Island, where there are more than 20 sheep for every human! The decline in the number of sheep has been caused by increasing dairy cattle numbers. Old Cars NZ roads don’t need to be salted so cars rust very slowly. • Around a fifth of cars are less than seven years old. • Around two thirds of cars are between seven and 16 years old. • Around a sixth of cars are more than 16 years old. Born Overseas Little known amongst facts about New Zealand is that 22% of its residents were born overseas. This compares with 24% in Australia, 20% in Canada, 12% in the USA and 8% in the UK. A Creamy Country New Zealand is one of the top five dairy exporters in the world. The top five countries supply around 90 percent of dairy products on the international market. 2013 figures show there are just over ten million beef and dairy cattle in NZ.

God Save The Queen To become a New Zealand citizen, you must take an oath of loyalty to Queen Elizabeth. Happy Schools New Zealand’s school students reported better relations with their teachers than the average for students in the OECD. New Zealand’s students also reported more pressure to achieve good results is applied by their teachers than the OECD average. More Happy Families For New Zealand families who have children; 41% have one child 23% have more than two children. Continental Climate Due to the moderating effect of the ocean, summer and winter temperatures in most NZ locations differ by less than 10 °C. The most continental climate is found in Central Otago, inland from Dunedin on the South Island. Here the temperature reaches 24 °C on an average day in summer while in winter it falls to -2 °C on an average night. Rainfall is a semi-arid 350 mm a year. In comparison, annual rainfall in other New Zealand locations is: • Christchurch 635 mm. » Farm Animal Facts ~ 30 Wierd & Amazing Facts Who We Are Farm Animal Facts ~ 30 Wierd & Amazing Facts Do you know which where the term chicken pox came from?

How about which farm animal is the closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurus Rex or what mental disease causes a man to think he is an ox? You can find the answer below as well as some other amazing farm animal facts that you might not have known about pigs, horses, cattle, chickens, turkeys, and sheep. 30 Farm Animal Facts 1. The tongue of a pig has six thousand more taste buds than a human’s. Humans have 15,000 while pigs only have 9,000. 2. Pigs and light-colored horses are the only two mammals besides humans that can get sunburned. 3. Pigs have been rated as the fourth most intelligent animal in the world, and are believed to be as smart if not smarter than dogs. 4. In truth, “to sweat like a pig” would mean that you do not sweat at all. Pigs have no sweat glands. Farm Animal Facts – Pigs can’t look up? 5. If a pig was able to fly, other pigs would be unable to see him. Pigs are incapable of looking up. 6. The average horse eats seven times its own weight in food each year. 7. Horses live about thirty years.

However, an English barge horse named “Old Billy” was sixty-two years old when he died and is the oldest recorded horse. Farm Animal Facts – Mules & Hinnies 8. If a female horse and a male donkey mate, the offspring is known as a mule. If a male horse and a female donkey mate, the offspring is known as a hinny. Both mules and hinnies are usually sterile. 9. The number of hooves raised on a horse statue does not indicate how the rider died. The common belief was that two legs raised indicated the person died in battle, one leg raised indicated the person died from wounds they received in battle, and no legs raised indicated the person died from natural causes. However, this belief can be applied to most of the statues located at Gettysburg National Park. Farm Animal Facts – Cow accused of what? 10. In Columbia, a cow once committed murder after it stepped on a loaded rifle and shot another cow in the head. 11. Cows are color blind. Bulls charge a matador’s cape because it is moving, not because it is red. 12. There are more cows in the United States than people.

New Zealand has more sheep than people. They have 70 million sheep but only 40 million people. 13. Cows produce about thirty percent of the methane in the atmosphere. 14. Twelve or more cows are known as a fink. 15. A cow’s glands are located in its nose. 16. Boanthropy is a rare mental disorder that causes a person to think he is an ox. One of the first recorded cases is in the book of Daniel (4:33), which tells about Nebuchadnezzar, a Babylonian king who would eat grass. Farm Animal Facts – No stairs in the barn 17. Because of the way a cow’s legs bend, they are incapable of walking downstairs. However, they can walk upstairs. 18. During her lifetime, a cow will produce about 200,000 glasses of milk. Cows will produce more milk when they are listening to music. 19. A donkey’s eyes are placed so that it is able to see all four of its feet no matter which way it looks. 20. More people are killed annually by donkeys, on average, then die in plane crashes. 21.

Russian breeders once claimed that they had produced a sheep with blue wool. 22. Chickens are not very good at flying. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is only thirteen seconds. The longest recorded distance flown by a chicken is 301.5 feet. Farm Animal Facts – Chicken Rex? 23. Scientists believe that the closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurs Rex is the chicken. 24. There is approximately the same amount of chickens as there are people with the most of each species living in China, which has about three billion chickens. The U.S. has only about 450 million chickens. 25. An egg’s shell is determined by the breed of chicken. Not all chicken eggs are white or brown; some chickens, such as the Ameraucana and the Araucana, produce blue and green eggs. The color of the yolk, however, can be affected by the chicken’s diet. Feeding certain dyes to chickens can cause them to lay eggs with varicolored yolks. 26. The term “chicken pox” comes from the Old English term “gican pox,” which referred to an inching pox, not because people believed the illness was caused by chickens.

27. Chickens and turkeys are capable of crossbreeding. When they do, they produce offspring that are known as turkins. Farm Animal Facts – Are there Turkeys in Turkey? 28. Although the turkey originated in North and Central America around 10 million years ago, it was mistakenly named after what was believed to be its country of origin. 29. Most domestic turkeys are incapable of flying. Wild turkeys can, however, and are capable of reaching speeds of fifty-five miles per hour for short distances. They can also run up to twenty-five miles per hour. 30. Equinophobia is the fear of horses; alektorophobia is the fear of chickens; and taurophobia is the fear of bulls. There is no official term for the fear of cows or pigs. Knowing all this puts a new light on Old McDonald’s farm now, doesn’t it? Of course, you rarely heard about the turkins, hinnies, or modern dinosaurs there.

Funny Farm Animal Facts, Farm Animal Facts Trivia Chapter 3 -- Inventories of Grazing Lands and Animals [A1] - Global Inventories - Land Inventories - Livestock now uses 30% of the earth's entire (ice-free?) land surface. It is mostly in permanent pasture, but also includes 33% of the global arable land (cropland) that is used to produce feed (mainly grain) for livestock ( 06U1). Grass-based economies predominate in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Mexico and Uruguay ( UNFAO, FAOSTAT Statistics Database, <apps.fao.orgs> 5/2/01). A quarter of the world's land is used for grazing, and extensive pasture provides 30% of total beef production and 23% for mutton (96F1) ( 03S2). Comments: The world's ice-free land area is about 132 million km2, suggesting that land used for grazing is 33 million km2. This seems small and obsolete.

Perhaps "world's land" here includes ice-covered lands giving a total area of about 148 million km2 and 37 million km2 of grazing lands. This would suggest that pastureland is being neglected. (la) Rangeland consists mainly of land that is unable to support crop production and accounts for 20% of the world's land surface - twice as much as the land area used for crops ( 02E1). Comments: Land unable to support crop production may be too arid or too sloped. Comments: The world's ice-free land area is about 132 million km2 and 20% of that is only 26 million km2. Grazing land area, globally, is at least 35 million km2 and probably much larger, so the 20% figure should really be at least 30%. (la) A global map of the world's grasslands is found in Ref. ( 00W1), p. 123. Estimates of the world's grassland ecosystems range from 41-56 million km2 (75W3) (79A1) (83O1).

Comments: This probably neglects pasturelands that are typically semi-humid or humid. PAGE researchers used satellite data and counted mosaics with other uses as grasslands wherever other uses constituted less than 40% of the mosaic. This produced an estimate of 52.5 million km2 of grassland (( 00W1), p.122). (la) The global non-ice-covered land area is 130-133 million km2, of which 30-40 million km2 is grazing land (40 million are forested, 15 million km2 are cultivated). The remainder is desert, tundra, mountains, rocky areas, urban (developed) areas, lakes/ rivers (2 million km2) and wetlands (2 million km2) (78B2?). (la) Vegetated Surface area of the Earth: 117 million km2 (95D2). Comments: Apparently this definition includes lands too cold to grow even one crop (e.g.

tundra), since most discussions of reasonably biologically productive land consider only about 85-90 million km2 of the Earth's 131 million km2 of ice-free land to fall into this category - and this includes about 4.7 million km2 of urban land. Part of the difference between 131 million km2 of ice-free land and 117 million km2 of vegetated land is accounted for by 6 million km2 of hyper-arid land. (See below). (la) About 2/3 of the earth's savannas are in Africa (99L1). (la) [A3] - Global Inventories - Grazeable Land - Countries such as China, some Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries (formerly in the USSR) and parts of South America still have the potential for major increases in the use of natural grasslands (98J1). Comments: The dust clouds over the Indian and Pacific Oceans are attributed to overgrazing and desertification in China ( 03N1). Argentina's Pampas have been badly overgrazed for decades. So the above statement is probably not true.

The FAO estimates that 70% (91 million km2) of the Earth's (ice-free) land is potentially grazeable (p. 364 of (91J1)). Comments: The additional grazing land would have to come from cropland and/or forestland. Using cropland would greatly reduce the Earth's carrying capacity. Converting forestland to grazing land greatly reduces the water-absorbing capacity of the land and creates destructive (erosive) flooding of cropland, lower-elevation grazing lands and urban lands. Closed Forest ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ | 33.2 (00W1)(over 10% crown cover) Sparse Forest ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ |[ 5.4](00W1) - - Do not count Sparse Forest.

It is part of the arid grazing land inventory.) Croplands ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ | 15.1 (00W1) Rock, Sand, Ice ~ ~ ~ ~ | 24.0 (73W1) Tundra, alpine meadows~ | 10.4 ((73W1) et al)*** Wetlands, bogs, peatland| ~2.8 ((73W1) et al)*** Lakes, streams~ ~ ~ ~ ~ | ~2.0 (73W1) Reservoirs~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ | ~0.4 ((90W1) of Soil Degradation Review) Total ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ | 92.6 Continental area~ ~ ~ ~ |148.9 ((82M1) of Soil Deg.

Review) Grazing Land (net)~ ~ ~ | 56.3 Grazing Land (Dry)~ ~ ~ | 43.3 (see above) (Semi-arid, arid) Grazing Land (non-dry)~ | 13.0 (by difference) *** Average of 3 values A total grazing land inventory of 56.3 million km2 is quite reasonable since it lies within various estimates of the world's grassland inventory. (from Tables 17.1 and 18.3 of Ref. (90W1)) (1986-88 data) (See Ref. (90W1) for data on numbers of cows, sheep and goats, equines, camels and buffalos) (Col. 2 and Col. 3 - Land area units - 1000 km2) (Col.

4 - Animal Number in units of 1000 AUs) AU = N(COWS) + 0.2 * N(Sheep and Goats) + 1.2 * (N(EQUINE) + N(Camel) + N(Buffalo)) Nation- - - -| ~Land| Graz.| ~AU ~ | AU/ - - - - - - -| ~Area| ~Land| ~ ~ ~ | G.Land ALGERIA~ ~ ~ | ~2382| 311.3| ~ 5852| ~ 19 ANGOLA ~ ~ ~ | ~1247| 290.0| ~ 3643| ~ 13 BENIN~ ~ ~ ~ | ~ 111| ~ 4.4| ~ 1282| ~291 BOTSWANA ~ ~ | ~ 567| 440.0| ~ 2811| ~ ~6 BURKINA FASO | ~ 274| 100.0| ~ 4807| ~ 48 BURUNDI~ ~

 ~ | ~ ~26| ~ 9.1| ~ ~613| ~ 67 CAMEROON ~ ~ | ~ 465| ~83.0| ~ 5510| ~ 66 CAPE VERDE ~ | ~ ~ 4| ~ 0.3| ~ ~ 39| ~130 CENT.AF.REP.

| ~ 623| ~30.0| ~ 2473| ~ 82 CHAD ~ ~ ~ ~ | ~1259| 450.0| ~ 5994| ~ 13 COMOROS~ ~ ~ | ~ ~ 2| ~ 0.2| ~ ~111| ~554 CONGO,PEOP.R.| ~ 342| 100.0| ~ ~120| ~ ~1 COTE d'IVOIRE| ~ 318| ~30.0| ~ 1525| ~ 51 DJIBOUTI ~ ~ | ~ ~23| ~ 2.0| ~ ~327| ~164 EGYPT, ARAB R| ~ 995| ~ 0.0| ~ 7892| ~ ~0 EQUAT.

GUINEA| ~ ~28| ~ 1.0| ~ ~ 13| ~ 13 EHTIOPIA ~ ~ | ~1101| 451.0| ~48089| ~107 GABON~ ~ ~ ~ | ~ 258| ~47.0| ~ ~ 38| ~ ~1 GAMBIA ~ ~ ~ | ~ ~10| ~ 0.9| ~ ~382| ~424 GHANA~ ~ ~ ~ | ~ 230| ~34.1| ~ 2298| ~ 67 GUINEA ~ ~ ~ | ~ 246| ~30.0| ~ 1989| ~ 66 GUINEA-BISSAU| ~ ~28| ~10.8| ~ ~425| ~ 39 KENYA~ ~ ~ ~ | ~ 567| ~37.4| ~13473| ~360 LESOTHO~ ~ ~ | ~ ~30| ~20.0| ~ 130

5| ~ 65 LIBERIA~ ~ ~ | ~ ~96| ~ 2.4| ~ ~137| ~ 57 LIBYA~ ~ ~ ~ | ~1760| 133.0| ~ 1881| ~ 14 MADAGASCAR ~ | ~ 582| 340.0| ~10878| ~ 32 MALAWI ~ ~ ~ | ~ ~94| ~18.4| ~ 1231| ~ 67 MALI ~ ~ ~ ~ | ~1220| 300.0| ~ 7858| ~ 26 MAURITANIA ~ | ~1025| 392.5| ~ 3822| ~ 10 MAURITIUS~ ~ | ~ ~ 2| ~ 0.1| ~ ~ 51| ~510 MOROCCO~ ~ ~ | ~ 446| 209.0| ~ 9084| ~ 43 MOZAMBIQUE ~ | ~ 7

84| 440.0| ~ 1471| ~ ~3 NIGER~ ~ ~ ~ | ~1267| ~92.5| ~ 7087| ~ 77 NIGERIA~ ~ ~ | ~ 911| 209.7| ~21178| ~101 RWANDA ~ ~ ~ | ~ ~25| ~ 4.1| ~ ~924| ~225 SENEGAL~ ~ ~ | ~ 193| ~57.0| ~ 3683| ~ 65 SIERRA LEONE | ~ ~72| ~22.0| ~ ~431| ~ 20 SOMALIA~ ~ ~ | ~ 627| 288.5| ~19515| ~ 68 SOUTH AFRICA | ~1221| 813.8| ~19433| ~ 24 SUDAN~ ~ ~ ~ | ~2376| 560.0| ~33224|

 ~ 59 SWAZILAND~ ~ | ~ ~17| ~11.5| ~ ~736| ~ 64 TANZANIA ~ ~ | ~ 886| 350.0| ~15491| ~ 44 TOGO ~ ~ ~ ~ | ~ ~54| ~ 2.0| ~ ~646| ~323 TUNISIA~ ~ ~ | ~ 155| ~30.4| ~ 2633| ~ 87 UGANDA ~ ~ ~ | ~ 200| ~50.0| ~ 5279| ~106 ZAIRE~ ~ ~ ~ | ~2268| ~92.2| ~ 2144| ~ 23 ZAMBIA ~ ~ ~ | ~ 741| 350.0| ~ 2853| ~ ~8 ZIMBABWE ~ ~ | ~ 387| ~48.6| ~ 6156| ~127 AFRICA ~ ~ ~ | 285

45|7300.2| 288837| ~ 40 AFRICA ~ ~ ~ | 29636|7879.3| 292959| ~ 37 BARBADOS ~ ~ | ~ ~ 0| ~ 0.0| ~ ~ 42| ~ ~0 BELIZE ~ ~ ~ | ~ ~23| ~ 0.5| ~ ~ ~0| ~ ~0 COSTA RICA ~ | ~ ~51| ~22.9| ~ 2442| ~107 CUBA ~ ~ ~ ~ | ~ 111| ~27.5| ~ 6008| ~218 DOMINICAN REP| ~ ~48| ~20.9| ~ 2912| ~139 EL SALVADOR~ | ~ ~21| ~ 6.1| ~ 1239| ~203 GUATEMALA~ ~ | ~ 108| ~13.6| ~ 2482| ~183 HAITI~ ~

 ~ ~ | ~ ~28| ~ 5.0| ~ 2595| ~519 HONDURAS ~ ~ | ~ 112| ~25.2| ~ 3148| ~125 JAMAICA~ ~ ~ | ~ ~11| ~ 2.0| ~ ~422| ~211 MEXICO ~ ~ ~ | ~1909| 745.0| ~49359| ~ 66 NICARAGUA~ ~ | ~ 119| ~52.0| ~ 2219| ~ 43 PANAMA ~ ~ ~ | ~ ~76| ~13.1| ~ 1658| ~127 TRINIDAD,TOBA| ~ ~ 5| ~ 0.1| ~ ~107| 1072 CENTRAL AMER.| ~2622| 933.9| ~74634| ~ 80 CANADA ~ ~ ~ | ~9221| 315.0| ~12423|

 ~ 39 UNITED STATES| ~9167|2414.7| 117335| ~ 49 NORTH AMERICA| 18388|2729.7| 129759| ~ 48 N.

/ C.

AMER.| 21378|3670.2| 205398| ~ 56 ARGENTINA~ ~ | ~2737|1426.0| ~62384| ~ 44 BOLIVIA~ ~ ~ | ~1084| 268.0| ~ 8944| ~ 33 BRAZIL ~ ~ ~ | ~8457|1670.0| 152274| ~ 91 CHILI~ ~ ~ ~ | ~ 749| 119.0| ~ 5290| ~ 44 COLOMBIA ~ ~ | ~1039| 398.0| ~28506| ~ 72 ECUADOR~ ~ ~ | ~ 277| ~49.0| ~ 5185| ~106 GUYANA ~ ~ ~ | ~ 197| ~12.3| ~ ~251| ~ 20 PARAGUAY ~ ~ | ~ 397

| 191.5| ~ 7983| ~ 42 PERU ~ ~ ~ ~ | ~1280| 271.2| ~ 8573| ~ 32 SURINAME ~ ~ | ~ 161| ~ 0.2| ~ ~ 74| ~370 URUGUAY~ ~ ~ | ~ 175| 135.4| ~15354| ~113 VENEZUELA~ ~ | ~ 882| 175.0| ~13960| ~ 80 SOUTH AMERICA| 17435|4715.6| 308779| ~ 65 SOUTH AMERICA| 17535|4727.8| 308942| ~ 65 BANGLADESH ~ | ~ 134| ~ 6.0| ~27247| 4541 BHUTAN ~ ~ ~ | ~ ~47| ~ 2.7| ~ ~468

| ~173 CHINA~ ~ ~ ~ | ~9326|4000.0| 161607| ~ 40 CYPRUS ~ ~ ~ | ~ ~ 9| ~ 0.0| ~ ~163| ~ ~0 INDIA~ ~ ~ ~ | ~2973| 118.2| 322009| 2724 INDONESIA~ ~ | ~1812| 440.0| ~14441| ~ 33 JAPAN~ ~ ~ ~ | ~ 377| ~ 7.9| ~ 4742| ~600 KAMPUCHEA DEM| ~ 181| ~ 5.8| ~ 2643| ~456 KOREA REP.

~ | ~ ~99| ~ 1.3| ~ 2763| 2126 KOREA DEM.P.R| ~ 120| ~ 0.8| ~ 1386| 1732 LAO P.D.R.

~ | ~ 237| ~ 8.0| ~ 1852| ~231 MALAYSIA ~ ~ | ~ 329| ~ 0.3| ~ ~968| 3228 MONGOLIA ~ ~ | ~1565|1244.0| ~ 9065| ~ ~7 MYANMAR~ ~ ~ | ~ 658| ~ 3.6| ~12965| 3601 NEPAL~ ~ ~ ~ | ~ 137| ~20.0| ~11024| ~551 PAKISTAN ~ ~ | ~ 771| ~50.0| ~50375| 1007 PHILIPPINES~ | ~ 298| ~12.6| ~ 6036| ~479 SINGAPORE~ ~ | ~ ~ 1| ~ 0.0| ~ ~ ~0| ~ ~0 SRI LANKA~ ~ | ~ ~65| ~ 4.4| ~ 3121

| ~709 THAILAND ~ ~ | ~ 511| ~ 7.8| ~12306| 1578 VIET NAM ~ ~ | ~ 325| ~ 3.4| ~ 6245| 1837 AFGHANISTAN~ | ~ 652| 300.0| ~10393| ~ 35 BAHRAIN~ ~ ~ | ~ ~ 1| ~ 0.0| ~ ~ 12| ~ ~0 IRAN,ISLAMIC | ~1636| 400.0| ~20967| ~ 52 IRAQ ~ ~ ~ ~ | ~ 437| ~40.0| ~ 4518| ~113 ISRAEL ~ ~ ~ | ~ ~20| ~ 1.5| ~ ~425| ~283 JORDAN ~ ~ ~ | ~ ~89| ~ 7.9| ~ ~393| ~ 50 KUWAIT ~ ~ ~ | ~ ~18| ~

 8.0| ~ ~ 95| ~ 12 LEBANON~ ~ ~ | ~ ~10| ~ 0.3| ~ ~191| ~637 OMAN ~ ~ ~ ~ | ~ 212| ~10.0| ~ ~445| ~ 44 QATAR~ ~ ~ ~ | ~ ~11| ~ 0.5| ~ ~ 72| ~143 SAUDI ARABIA | ~2150| 850.0| ~ 3115| ~ ~4 SYRIAN ARAB R| ~ 184| ~83.0| ~ 3755| ~ 45 TURKEY ~ ~ ~ | ~ 770| ~88.0| ~25881| ~294 UNITED ARAB I| ~ ~84| ~ 2.0| ~ ~433| ~216 YEMEN, REP.~ | ~ 195| ~70.0| ~ 2587| ~ 37 YEMEN P.D.R.

| ~ 333| ~90.7| ~ ~864| ~ 10 SOUTHERN ASIA| 26777|7888.7| 725571| ~ 92 SOUTHERN ASIA| 26787|6785.5| 725601| ~107 USSR ~ ~ ~ ~ | 22272|3736.7| 158832| ~ 43 NORTHERN ASIA| 22272|3736.7| 158832| ~ 43 NORTHERN ASIA| 22272|3736.7| 158832| ~ 43 ALBANIA~ ~ ~ | ~ ~27| ~ 4.0| ~ 1267| ~317 AUSTRIA~ ~ ~ | ~ ~83| ~19.8| ~ 2706| ~137 BELGIUM~ ~ ~ | ~ ~3

3| ~ 7.0| ~ 3094| ~442 BULGARIA ~ ~ | ~ 111| ~20.3| ~ 4260| ~210 CZECHOSLOVAKI| ~ 125| ~16.4| ~ 5339| ~326 DENMARK~ ~ ~ | ~ ~42| ~ 2.1| ~ 2413| 1149 FINLAND~ ~ ~ | ~ 305| ~ 1.3| ~ 1553| 1195 FRANCE ~ ~ ~ | ~ 550| 120.7| ~25068| ~208 GERMANY~ ~ ~ | ~ 350| ~57.8| ~22431| ~388 GREECE ~ ~ ~ | ~ 131| ~52.6| ~ 3982| ~ 76 HUNGARY~ ~ ~ | ~ ~92| ~12.3| ~ 2315|

 ~188 ICELAND~ ~ ~ | ~ 100| ~22.7| ~ ~293| ~ 13 IRELAND~ ~ ~ | ~ ~69| ~46.8| ~ 6508| ~139 ITALY~ ~ ~ ~ | ~ 294| ~49.7| ~11955| ~241 MALTA~ ~ ~ ~ | ~ ~ 0| ~ 0.0| ~ ~ 18| ~ ~0 NETHERLANDS~ | ~ ~34| ~11.1| ~ 5135| ~463 NORWAY ~ ~ ~ | ~ 307| ~ 1.0| ~ 1450| 1450 POLAND ~ ~ ~ | ~ 304| ~40.6| ~12916| ~318 PORTUGAL ~ ~ | ~ ~92| ~ 5.3| ~ 2876| ~543 ROMANIA~ ~ ~ | ~ 230| ~44.0| ~12

040| ~274 SPAIN~ ~ ~ ~ | ~ 499| 102.7| ~ 9738| ~ 95 SWEDEN ~ ~ ~ | ~ 412| ~ 5.7| ~ 1828| ~321 SWITZERLAND~ | ~ ~40| ~16.1| ~ 2015| ~125 U.K.

~ ~ ~ ~ | ~ 242| 115.7| ~17789| ~154 YUGOSLAVIA ~ | ~ 255| ~63.6| ~ 7094| ~112 EUROPE ~ ~ ~ | ~4727| 839.3| 166084| ~198 EUROPE ~ ~ ~ | ~4730| 839.8| 166108| ~198 AUSTRALIA~ ~ | ~7618|4371.4| ~54794| ~ 13 FIJI ~ ~ ~ ~ | ~ ~18| ~ 0.6| ~ ~220| ~367 NEW ZEALAND~ | ~ 269| 138.6| ~21551| ~155 PAPUA, N.GUN.| ~ 453| ~ 0.9| ~ ~110| ~122 SOLOMON IS.~ | ~ ~28| ~ 

0.4| ~ ~ 13| ~ 33 OCEANIA,AUST.| ~8386|4511.9| ~76689| ~ 17 OCEANIA,AUST.| ~7887|4515.4| ~77047| ~ 17 TOTALS ~ ~ ~ |129200|32700 |1929000| ~ 59 TOTALS ~ ~ ~ |130200|32200 |1935000| ~ 60 TOTALS ~ ~ ~ |130800|32200 |1935000| ~ 60 LINE 1 OF REGION TOTALS IS TOTALS OF INDIVIDUAL NATION DATA LINE 2 OF REGION TOTALS IS REGIONAL TOTALS FROM TABLE 18.3 LINE 1 OF FINAL TOTALS IS SUMS OF ALL NATIONAL DATA LINE 2 OF FINAL TOTALS IS SUMS OF TABLE 18.3 REGIONAL TOTALS LINE 3 OF FINAL TOTALS IS FINAL TOTALS FROM TABLE 1

8.3 Analysis of National-, Regional- and Global Grazing-Land Use (la) (from Tables 17.1 and 18.3 of Ref.

(90W1)) (1986-1988 data) Land area units - 1000 km2 (Col. 2 and Col. 3): Animal Number Units - 1000 (Col. 4) AU= N(cows)+ .2* N(Sheep and Goats)+ 1.2*(N(Equine)+ N(Camel)+ N(Buffalo)) Region- - - - | ~Land|Graz.| ~AU~ | AU/ - - - - - - - | ~Area| Land| ~ ~ ~|G.Land AFRICA~ ~ ~ ~ | 28545| 7300|288837| 40 CENTRAL AMER.

| ~2622| ~934| 74634| 80 NORTH AMERICA | 18388| 2730|129759| 48 SOUTH AMERICA | 17435| 4716|308779| 65 SOUTHERN ASIA | 26777| 7889|725571| 92 NORTHERN ASIA | 22272| 3737|158832| 43 EUROPE~ ~ ~ ~ | ~4727| ~839|166084|198 OCEANIA, AUST.| ~8386| 4512| 76689| 17 TOTALS~ ~ ~ ~ |129200|32700| ~1929| 59 Comments: The average capacity of the world's grazing land is about 30 AU/ km2 based on the net primary productivity of the world's grasslands,

 so 59 AU/ km2 suggests significant over-grazing.

[A7] - Global Inventories - Animal Inventories (Also see tables above.) - Domestic Ruminant Populations (1996-1998) (Populations in millions) ((00W1), Table FG.4) Note: See Ref. (00W1), Table FG.4, for a breakdown by nation.

- - - - - - - - -|Cattle|Sheep/|Equines|Buffalo Asia(excl.Mideast)| 425 | ~653 | ~37 ~ |159 Europe~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ | 165 | ~183 | ~ 9 ~ | ~0 Mideast/N.Africa~ | ~34 | ~250 | ~11 ~ | ~6 Sub-Saharan Africa| 207 | ~366 | ~16 ~ | 14 North America ~ ~ | 115 | ~ 10 | ~ 7 ~ | ~0 Cent.Amer./Caribb.| ~47 | ~ 19 | ~16 ~ | ~0 South America ~ ~ | 301 | ~110 | ~23 ~ | ~2 Oceania ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ | ~36 | ~168 | ~ 0 ~ | ~0 Totals~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ |1328 | 1761 | 119 ~ |180 Developed ~ ~ ~ ~ | 351 | ~440 |

 ~19 ~ | ~1 Developing~ ~ ~ ~ | 977 | 1319 | 101 ~ |179

Question: What country has about 4.5 million people, but 40 million sheep?
Answer: New Zealand