Sheep density map
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Sheep (Ovis aries) are ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock. There are more than one billion domestic sheep live on our planet.
Sheep are the earliest animals to be domesticated for agricultural purposes native to Iran, descended from the wild mouflon.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, the top 5 nations by the number of heads of sheep were:
- China (147 million sheep),
- Australia (101 million),
- India (62 million),
- Iran (52 million),
- Sudan (46 million).
The map below created by reddit user Symmy546 shows where do the world’s one billion sheep live?
About 540 million sheep are slaughtered every year for meat globally.
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