Farm Animal Register · 1 November 2026

Livestock numbers in Lithuania

How many farm animals are kept in Lithuania, according to the national Farm Animal Register (ŪGR) run by the State Enterprise Agricultural Data Centre (ŽŪDC). The figures are a snapshot of the register on 1 November 2026, not an annual average. Choose a species for its monthly trend and its breakdown by municipality.

In the register · 1 November 2026

778,357animals

34,413 herds

Herd-size structure

Snapshot · 1 November 2026

Most herds are small: 68.2% of 34,413 herds keep 10 animals or fewer (all species in the herd counted together). A herd here is one register herd number - a keeping location, not a farm and not an owner.

Herds by number of animals kept · 1 November 2026

herds

18,842
4,616
5,919
3,685
1,351
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Bar label: animals per herd; figure above the bar: number of herds of that size.Source: State Enterprise Agricultural Data Centre (ŽŪDC), Farm Animal Register (ŪGR)

Share of each species

Cattle

80.1%

623,793 animals · 19,384 herds

Sheep

15.8%

123,162 animals · 7,015 herds

Horses

2.2%

17,441 animals · 4,977 herds

Goats

1.8%

13,961 animals · 3,037 herds

Scope: grazing livestock only - poultry, pigs and bees are not in this dataset. This is the state of the register on 1 November 2026 - not a trend and not a forecast.

By municipality

Each species page lists the municipalities keeping the most animals, with herd counts. Changes per municipality between monthly snapshots are published on the Lithuanian dynamics page of each species, linked from the species pages.

Source and method

Data: the Farm Animal Register (Ūkinių gyvūnų registras, ŪGR), maintained by the State Enterprise Agricultural Data Centre (ŽŪDC) and published as open data. The register records four species separately - cattle, sheep, goats and horses; pigs and poultry have no rows in this dataset. The register is captured once a month; a snapshot that failed our consistency checks is excluded rather than shown. FERMOS.LT publishes the counts unchanged.