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As of November 3, 2025, 21.5 million pigs were kept on 15,220 farms in Germany. According to preliminary results from the livestock census, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the pig inventory increased significantly by 2.8% (+575,800 animals) compared to the previous census on May 3, 2025, and by 0.9% (+196,300 animals) compared to the previous year. By contrast, the number of farms remained virtually constant compared with May 3, 2025, with a decline of 0.2% (-30 farms). Compared to the previous year (November 3, 2024), the number of farms decreased by 2.7% (-430 farms), and by 40.8% (-10,500 farms) in a ten-year comparison since 2015.
Compared to 2015, the pig inventory declined by 22.3% or 6.2 million animals. As the number of farms has fallen much more sharply during this period, the trend towards larger farms continues: while in 2015 a farm kept an average of just under 1,100 pigs, a decade later the figure has risen to more than 1,400 animals per farm.
As of November 3, 2025, there were 9.2 million finishing pigs in Germany, 6.4% or 626,200 fewer animals than a year earlier. By contrast, the number of piglets and young pigs rose by 8.1% or 809,800 animals to 10.9 million during the same period. The number of breeding sows rose by 1.4% (+19,300 animals) compared to November 2024, reaching 1.4 million animals.
December 22, 2025/ Destatis/ Germany.
https://www.destatis.de/
