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According to preliminary data of Statistics Estonia, at the end of the year, there were 362,200 pigs in Estonia.

The latest data published by Agreste shows a 0.9% reduction in pork production between January and November of last year.

The increase in the export of live animals is 1.3% compared to 2010.

According to preliminary data published by the German statistical service as of November 3, 2011 the pig population has risen to 27.4 million head.

During the past year the number of pigs has decreased by 9.8% (132,800 head).

The EU-27 accounted for approximately 12 million farms and 170 million ha of UAA in 2010. These figures, which are only partial, show that almost 3 million farms were lost between 2003 and 2010

According to the date of the state committee of statistics, at the beginning of December 2011 the number of pigs (7,835,800) decreased in comparison with the same date in 2010.

The total number of pigs in Ireland in June 2011 was estimated at 1,555,100. This represents an increase of 2.4% since June 2010.

The number of pigs decreased in October, in comparison with the previous month. The difference in quantity is 67.1 thousand pigs or 1%.

Pig production in the Philippines posted gains of 1.64% in the first nine months of 2011.

In the 3rd quarter of 2011, the number of pigs for slaughter went down by 3.4% to 728 016 heads.

In the third quarter of 2011, 15.2 million pigs were commercially slaughtered in Germany, that was 3.5% or 521,000 animals more than in the same quarter a year earlier.

According to published data Germany, Spain and France are the largest producers of pig meat in the EU27.

Thailand's Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives has reported an estimated losses of 13.3 million of livestock in the ongoing floods that have swept through central Thailand.

United States inventory of all hogs and pigs on September 1, 2011 was 66.6 million head. This was up 1 percent from September 1, 2010 but down slightly from September 1, 2009.

Total pork production in 2012 is projected up by two percent to 1.28 million MT (or total slaughter of 16.6 million heads).