EQUIGENES / FIGURES
Horse numbers around the world
How many horses are reported in each country, and how do those counts compare with population? This table compares the countries and areas with reported values.
Horse counts and horses per person
Per-capita figures are shown as horses per 1,000 people. Click a column heading to sort the table.
143 countries and areas with a reported value
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| Mexico | 6,421,075 | 49.07 |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 6,215,569 | 18.28 |
| Brazil | 5,702,612 | 26.9 |
| Mongolia | 4,683,233 | 1,328.66 |
| Kazakhstan | 4,353,028 | 211.39 |
| China | 3,521,000 | 2.5 |
| Argentina | 2,588,704 | 56.65 |
| Ethiopia | 2,293,260 | 17.37 |
| Chad | 1,550,515 | 76.38 |
| Russia | 1,322,642 | 9.21 |
| Colombia | 964,426 | 18.24 |
| Sudan | 796,418 | 15.79 |
| United Kingdom | 760,529 | 10.98 |
| Peru | 751,041 | 21.95 |
| Mali | 644,989 | 26.35 |
| Senegal | 598,995 | 32.37 |
| Cuba | 570,114 | 51.92 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 553,516 | 76.64 |
| Venezuela | 524,139 | 18.45 |
| Bolivia | 516,249 | 41.59 |
| Haiti | 504,950 | 42.89 |
| Sierra Leone | 444,910 | 51.48 |
| Uruguay | 410,347 | 121.17 |
| Canada | 400,306 | 9.7 |
| Pakistan | 382,000 | 1.52 |
| Dominican Republic | 367,585 | 32.17 |
| Indonesia | 350,930 | 1.24 |
| South Africa | 339,966 | 5.31 |
| Chile | 295,656 | 14.96 |
| France | 289,788 | 4.23 |
| Uzbekistan | 282,793 | 7.78 |
| Niger | 268,765 | 9.94 |
| Philippines | 248,273 | 2.14 |
| Australia | 228,204 | 8.39 |
| Paraguay | 223,392 | 32.24 |
| Honduras | 182,378 | 16.85 |
| India | 174,515 | 0.12 |
| Morocco | 158,195 | 4.15 |
| Poland | 157,620 | 4.31 |
| Ecuador | 153,173 | 8.45 |
| Ukraine | 144,800 | 3.82 |
| Guatemala | 133,195 | 7.24 |
| Iran | 127,751 | 1.4 |
| Myanmar | 117,653 | 2.16 |
| Costa Rica | 117,571 | 22.92 |
| Nigeria | 104,092 | 0.45 |
| Portugal | 103,000 | 9.63 |
| Panama | 102,460 | 22.69 |
| Netherlands | 102,143 | 5.68 |
| El Salvador | 98,260 | 15.5 |
| Ireland | 94,100 | 17.44 |
| Tajikistan | 91,626 | 8.65 |
| Egypt | 89,098 | 0.76 |
| Lesotho | 73,968 | 31.65 |
| Türkiye | 70,360 | 0.82 |
| Mauritania | 66,358 | 12.84 |
| Tunisia | 57,197 | 4.66 |
| Algeria | 50,860 | 1.09 |
| Iceland | 50,000 | 129.36 |
| Iraq | 49,640 | 1.08 |
| Azerbaijan | 49,583 | 4.86 |
| North Korea | 48,351 | 1.82 |
| Switzerland | 48,006 | 5.33 |
| Fiji | 47,707 | 51.37 |
| Libya | 46,676 | 6.32 |
| Vietnam | 46,406 | 0.46 |
| Denmark | 45,382 | 7.59 |
| Georgia | 43,491 | 11.41 |
| Namibia | 40,718 | 13.44 |
| Saudi Arabia | 40,470 | 1.15 |
| Hungary | 40,000 | 4.18 |
| Norway | 35,980 | 6.46 |
| Timor-Leste | 35,215 | 25.14 |
| Laos | 31,957 | 4.11 |
| Cambodia | 31,330 | 1.78 |
| New Zealand | 31,184 | 5.89 |
| Gambia | 28,573 | 10.35 |
| Zimbabwe | 28,160 | 1.69 |
| Turkmenistan | 27,624 | 3.69 |
| South Korea | 27,329 | 0.53 |
| Albania | 24,199 | 10.18 |
| Burkina Faso | 20,683 | 0.88 |
| Belarus | 18,100 | 1.98 |
| Cameroon | 16,274 | 0.56 |
| Qatar | 15,744 | 5.51 |
| Serbia | 14,897 | 2.26 |
| Moldova | 14,849 | 6.18 |
| Armenia | 14,100 | 4.65 |
| Japan | 13,230 | 0.11 |
| Lithuania | 12,827 | 4.44 |
| Tonga | 11,900 | 114.23 |
| New Caledonia | 10,725 | 36.65 |
| Bhutan | 10,499 | 13.26 |
| Latvia | 9,100 | 4.88 |
| Afghanistan | 8,262 | 0.19 |
| North Macedonia | 7,815 | 4.28 |
| Syria | 6,600 | 0.27 |
| Belize | 6,122 | 14.68 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 5,380 | 1.7 |
| Thailand | 5,316 | 0.07 |
| Malaysia | 4,437 | 0.12 |
| Puerto Rico | 4,285 | 1.34 |
| Montenegro | 4,253 | 6.82 |
| Luxembourg | 4,054 | 5.99 |
| Jamaica | 4,008 | 1.41 |
| Israel | 4,000 | 0.4 |
| Guinea | 3,678 | 0.25 |
| Lebanon | 3,541 | 0.61 |
| Ghana | 3,468 | 0.1 |
| Botswana | 2,572 | 1.02 |
| Vanuatu | 2,416 | 7.37 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 2,406 | 1.09 |
| Guyana | 2,340 | 2.82 |
| Jordan | 2,205 | 0.19 |
| French Polynesia | 2,200 | 7.81 |
| Togo | 2,105 | 0.25 |
| Kenya | 2,036 | 0.04 |
| Papua New Guinea | 2,033 | 0.19 |
| Samoa | 1,954 | 8.96 |
| Eswatini | 1,756 | 1.41 |
| Yemen | 1,697 | 0.04 |
| Hong Kong | 1,561 | 0.21 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1,407 | 1.03 |
| Sri Lanka | 1,256 | 0.06 |
| Barbados | 1,230 | 4.35 |
| Benin | 1,173 | 0.08 |
| Kuwait | 1,159 | 0.24 |
| Saint Lucia | 1,113 | 6.19 |
| Angola | 1,012 | 0.03 |
| Somalia | 905 | 0.05 |
| Taiwan | 873 | 0.04 |
| Cape Verde | 597 | 1.14 |
| Madagascar | 520 | 0.02 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 493 | 5.26 |
| United Arab Emirates | 448 | 0.04 |
| Suriname | 344 | 0.54 |
| Sao Tome and Principe | 314 | 1.33 |
| Cook Islands | 300 | 17.86 |
| Malawi | 235 | 0.01 |
| Solomon Islands | 151 | 0.18 |
| Mauritius | 144 | 0.12 |
| Congo | 75 | 0.01 |
| Grenada | 30 | 0.26 |
These figures count reported horses, not necessarily all equids (donkeys and mules). FAO notes that a blank value means no figure was reported, so those countries are not included. Human population figures are mainly from the World Bank; Taiwan and the Cook Islands use official local statistics. Reporting methods and population sources are not perfectly uniform, so per-capita ratios are indicative.
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