The European Union saw a widespread reduction in its livestock populations throughout 2025, according to official statistics released by Eurostat .
New data indicates that the bloc held 131.5 million pigs , 71.6 million bovine animals , 55.3 million sheep and 10.2 million goats .
Compared with the figures from the previous year, every monitored livestock population registered a decrease.
The pig population contracted by 0.5 per cent, while the
