In accordance with preliminary knowledge from the Federal Statistical Workplace (Destatis) livestock survey, there have been 15,250 pig farms in Germany as of Could 3, 2025, which represents a 2.6% lower (-400 farms) in comparison with November 3, 2024. In comparison with the earlier yr, the variety of farms decreased by 3.3% (-520 farms). In comparison with ten years in the past, the variety of farms decreased by 41% (-10,600 farms).
The variety of pigs raised in Germany on Could 3, 2025 was 20.9 million head. In comparison with November 3, 2024, the pig herd has decreased by 1.8% (-375,000 head), and by 1.2% in comparison with the earlier yr (-256,900 head).
Over the past ten years, the pig herd has decreased considerably, by 25.6% (-7.2 million head), however to a lesser extent than the variety of farms. Subsequently, the pattern in direction of bigger farms continues. In 2015, a farm had a median of 1,100 pigs. Ten years later, this determine has elevated to 1,400 head per farm.
By class, there have been 9.4 million ending pigs in Germany as of Could 3, 2025, down 0.7%, or 64,500 head, from the earlier yr. The variety of piglets and younger pigs decreased by 1.6% or 164,500 head in comparison with Could 2024 to 10.1 million. The variety of breeding sows, at 1.4 million head, decreased by 1.3% (-18,200 head) in comparison with Could 2024.
July 1, 2025/ Destatis/ Germany.
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