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As of December 1st 2015, the Russian pig herd increased by 9.5%, adding up 21.9 million heads.

With an increase by 6.8% and a total census of 28,367,340 pig heads, Spain is the country with the highest pig census in the EU, beating Germany for the first time.

Spanish swine sector estimates for 2016 a growth of 3.5 percent for total slaughters and of 3.9 percent of pork production.

The Brazilian pork production rose by 4.95% in 2015 in comparison with 2014, with a total production of 3,643 million tonnes.

By January 1, 2016 the pigs’ number in Ukraine decreased on 3,5% and has averaged out at 7,09 mln heads.

As of December 1, there were 68.3 million hogs and pigs on U.S. farms, up 1 percent from December 2014.

As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), 27.5 million pigs were kept in Germany as at 3 November 2015.

While area used for agriculture remained stable, over 1 out of 4 farms disappeared between 2003 and 2013 in the EU, according to information published by Eurostat.

The total pig census as of June 2015 has dropped by 0.7% with respect to the same period in 2014.

A new global round of country-driven agricultural censuses is set to begin in 2016, a large-scale, data collection process that will gather information and statistics on the world's agricultural sector.

According to the MAGRAMA's data, in May 2015 the total pig census in Spain was 26,983,205 heads: an increase by 6% with respect to May 2014.

According to DEFRA, the total number of pigs in the UK decreased by 1.9 %, from 4.8 million animals in June 2014 to 4.7 million in June 2015.

EU slaughterings continued to go up in the second quarter of 2015 compared to 2014 although at a slower pace, reaching +3.9% for the whole first half of the year, according to "Short-Term Outlook for European Union arable crops, dairy and meat markets in 2015 and 2016".

United States inventory of all hogs and pigs on September 1, 2015 was 68.4 million head. This is the highest inventory of all hogs and pigs since quarterly United States estimates began in 1988.

Swine inventories are expected to grow by 3 percent in 2015 due to low prices of feed and continuing demand for pork on the domestic market.

Over 5 additional million (+ 4%) pigs have been slaughtered during the first six months of this year in the European Union compared to the same period last year. This represents an increase of 4%.