The FEDIAF report “European Facts and Figures 2019” also provided data on
the animals’ economic additions to those nations.
The European Pet Food Industry (FEDIAF) released their estimates of the petpopulations in European countries for 2019. Considering geography, 77,410,000dogs lived as pets in Europe in 2019. From a political perspective, 58,400,000of those dogs resided in the European Union.
Russia’s dog population was the largest in Europe in 2019 with 16,800,000animals. Germany held the second largest population at 10,100,000. The UnitedKingdom was home to the third largest number of dogs with 9 million.
Other nations from the report with dog populations over one million
- France – 7,600,000
- Italy – 7,011,000
- Spain – 6,733,000
- Romania – 4,150,000
- Hungary – 2,050,000
- Portugal – 2,050,000
- Czech Republic – 2,000,000
- Netherlands – 1,690,000
- Belgium – 1,320,000
- Turkey – 1,200,000
Economic contribution of pet products to Europe
The FEDIAF report “European Facts and Figures 2019” also provided data on theanimals’ economic additions to those nations.
FEDIAF analysts estimated that pet food sales in the EU reached 8.5 millionmetric tons (9.4 million US tons) with a turnover value of EUR21 billion(US$23.6 billion) in 2019. Over the past three years, the EU pet food industrygrew by 2.6% on average annually.
The FEDIAF report “European Facts and Figures 2019” detailed how these petswere distributed among nations, along with the animals’ economic additions tothose nations. Across EU member states, FEDIAF analysts estimated that 132 petfood producing companies operated an estimated 200 productions plants. Thosecompanies and other branches of the pet food industry employed 100,000 peopledirectly, with a further 900,000 employed indirectly by dog, cat and other petfood manufacturing, distribution and sales.
That pet food was bought by the approximately 85 million households in theEuropean Union that kept at least one pet last year. On average, EU householdscontain 2.3 members, so FEDIAF estimated that 38% of all EU households for atotal of 195.5 million people live in homes with pets in the European Union.Roughly equal percentages owned dogs and cats at 25% and 24% respectively inthe EU, while those statistics flipped when considering Europe overall.
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Source:Tim Wall Petfood Industry
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