This release presents results from an annual inventory for monitoring livestock breed populations and breeding structures. It provides data on the status and trends in the domestic cattle, sheep, pig, goat and horse farm animal genetic resources (FAnGR) with continuous data from 2000 to 2024 for around 100 breeds of cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and horses which are present in the UK.

Included on this page is also an Official Statistics in Development release for the genetic resources of domestic poultry animals covering: Chickens; Ducks; Geese and Turkeys. This release includes the poultry inventory dataset and a release note. The poultry inventory has not be updated for the 2024, however the inventory will resume for the 2025 data collection.

User Engagement

Data from the farm animal genetic resources statistics are an invaluable evidence base for policy makers, academics and researchers. The data is also heavily relied upon by the UKGLE committee and the UK government. The farm animal genetic resources data is used to:

-Enhance knowledge of population size and prevent the loss of breeds

-Support strategic planning for the sustainable utilisation of animal genetic resources

-Improve priority setting for conservation programmes

-Enhance knowledge of cross-border genetic linkages

-Raise public awareness

-Fulfil reporting obligations.

As part of our ongoing commitment to compliance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics we wish to strengthen our engagement with users of farm animal genetic resources data and better understand the use made of them and the types of decisions that they inform. Consequently, we invite users to register as a user of the farm animal genetic resources data, so that we can retain your details and inform you of any new releases and provide you with the opportunity to take part in user engagement activities that we may run. If you would like to register as a user of the farm animal genetic resources, please provide your details in the attached form

Next update: see the statistics release calendar.

For further information please contact:
ukglesecretariat@defra.gov.uk
Defra Helpline: 03459 33 55 77 (Monday to Friday: 8.30am to 5.30pm)

Published 4 June 2015

Last updated 28 May 2025 show all updates

28 May 2025
Updated statistical notice and dataset due to some data being under the wrong category.
22 May 2025
Added link to Farm Animal Genetic Resources (FAnGR) populations dashboard.
15 May 2025
Updated main breed inventory with data for 2024.
15 October 2024
Updated datasets with latest versions.
17 May 2024
Minor changes to datasets removed 2023 datapoint for Llandovery Whiteface Hill estimated female population due to technical error.
16 May 2024
Updated main and poultry breed inventory with data for 2023.
11 May 2023
Update for 11th May 2023. The machine readable datasets (csv) to be updated separately the following week.
12 May 2022
Updated breed inventory with data for 2021. This included a statistical notice, data set and machine readable dataset.
14 April 2022
Updated Poultry inventory with data for 2021. This included a statistical notice, data set and machine readable dataset.
18 November 2021
Update to the Machine readable: UK FAnGR breed inventory dataset to 2020 inventory data.
14 October 2021
Edited with updated data set and statistics notices.
24 June 2021
Updated statistical notice and data time series (ods version) for the breed inventory with 2020 data. The csv file will be updated in the coming weeks.
7 January 2021
Remove link to the UK FAnGR breed inventory interactive data explorer.
8 October 2020
Added poultry statistics (new) and replaced all other livestock files due to an additional indicator (cryogenic material) being made available which adds further insight into the robustness of genetic material in UK pedigree farm animals.
22 May 2020
The UK FAnGR Breed Inventory datasets have been updated to include additional data for the British Blue cattle in 2018 and 2019, as well as estimated breeding female population for the British Lop and KuneKune pigs in 2020.
7 May 2020
Added latest statistical notice and datasets, 2019 figures.
8 May 2019
Updated to include 2018 data.
8 November 2018
Revised UK farm animal genetic resources (FAnGR) dataset.
20 July 2018
Minor revisions to UK FAnGR Breed Inventory dataset.
3 May 2018
Added statistic release in 'pdf' format.
3 May 2018
Updated statistical release with new interactive data explorer and updated dataset to include data up to 2017.
23 August 2017
Updated dataset only.
23 May 2017
Updated with statistical notice and dataset to include date up to 2016.
18 October 2016
Further quality assurance amendment to UK farm animal genetic resources (FAnGR) dataset.
17 October 2016
Amended UK farm animal genetic resources (FAnGR) dataset.
5 October 2016
Updated time series document due to typo error.
8 September 2016
Revised UK FAnGR Breed Inventory dataset published.
10 August 2016
Updated with notice and dataset to include date up to 2015.
24 August 2015
Revised dataset.
22 July 2015
Dataset updated with Feral Cheviot goats data 2014
4 June 2015
First published.

UK farm animal genetic resources (FAnGR): breed inventory results

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