Official Belgian data, explained
Animal populations by NUTS… category: Live bovine animals by province in Belgium (2025)
This page maps Animal populations by NUTS 2 region — Animal category: Live bovine animals for one nationally comparable 2025 slice. Every figure below uses the same disclosed definition, unit, geography and source.
Population
What this indicator measures
Animal populations by NUTS 2 region. Complete annual Eurostat source dimensions, units and observation flags are retained in one compact cube.
Indicator dossier
Data passport
- Selected reference period
- 2025
- Geography
- provinces
- Boundary set
- Statistical sectors 2024
- Measure
- Animal populations by NUTS 2 region
- Unit
- thousand head of livestock
- Comparable areas
- 11
- Coverage
- 100%
Indicator dossier
Selected slice
Exact catalogue filters applied to the map, statistics and comparison.
- Animal category
- Live bovine animals
Latest published slice
How to read the pattern
- Median
- 215.78thousand head of livestock
- Unweighted area mean
- 193.4thousand head of livestock
- Minimum
- 1.06thousand head of livestock
- Maximum
- 357.79thousand head of livestock
Across the valid national comparison set, the median is 215.78 thousand head of livestock. Values extend from 1.06 to 357.79 thousand head of livestock. This describes geographic variation; it is not a score of local quality.
Geography
Map of Belgium
- 0.22–115.843 areas
- 115.84–251.84 areas
- 251.8–323.652 areas
- 323.65–382.142 areas
- 382.14–5400 areas
Areas
Value distribution
| Value | Areas |
|---|---|
| 1.06–119.97 | 4 |
| 119.97–238.88 | 3 |
| 238.88–357.79 | 4 |
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provinces
Highest and lowest values
From 11 comparable areas, the table shows a concise descriptive high-and-low sample. Equal values do not imply equal local circumstances.
| Highest | 1 | Provincie West-Vlaanderen | 30000 | 357.79 thousand head of livestock |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highest | 2 | Provincie Antwerpen | 10000 | 329.25 thousand head of livestock |
| Highest | 3 | Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen | 40000 | 281.33 thousand head of livestock |
| Highest | 4 | Province du Luxembourg | 80000 | 269.93 thousand head of livestock |
| Highest | 5 | Province du Hainaut | 50000 | 234.54 thousand head of livestock |
| Highest | 6 | Province de Liège | 60000 | 215.78 thousand head of livestock |
| Highest | 7 | Province de Namur | 90000 | 192.57 thousand head of livestock |
| Highest | 8 | Provincie Limburg | 70000 | 119.6 thousand head of livestock |
| Highest | 9 | Provincie Vlaams-Brabant | 20001 | 88.04 thousand head of livestock |
| Highest | 10 | Province du Brabant wallon | 20002 | 37.56 thousand head of livestock |
| Lowest | 11 | Région de Bruxelles-Capitale | 04000 | 1.06 thousand head of livestock |
Method and limitations
Method and limitations
No missing value is imputed. Where colour classes are used, their breaks and colours come from the catalogue; source-declared suppression remains missing.
The area mean gives every published geographic area equal weight. It is not weighted by population, exposure or area size.
Native NUTS2 value mapped only to exact province-equivalent geography; not a municipality value. Selectors define the source universe and unit.
Default-filter coverage on the exact eleven-code Belgian NUTS-2/province-equivalent domain.
Read the methodologySources, licence and provenance
Sources, licence and provenance
- Source
- Eurostat
- Licence
- Eurostat reuse policy
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0