Mongolia vs South America: Sheep — Stocks

Mongolia
24.49 million An
in 2024
South America
63.73 million An
in 2024
Mongolia rank
16th
South America rank
16th

Sheep — Stocks over time

  • Mongolia
  • South America
025.0M50.0M75.0M100.0M125.0M196119922024

How they compare

South America currently reports 63.73 million An against 24.49 million An in Mongolia, a difference of 39.24 million An.

That makes South America's figure about 2.6 times Mongolia's.

Across all 64 years both countries report, South America has been ahead every year.

Mongolia ranks 16th and South America ranks 16th of 179 countries.

South America has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Mongolia South America Difference Ahead
1960s 12.52 million An 117.89 million An 105.37 million An South America
1970s 13.76 million An 103.93 million An 90.17 million An South America
1980s 13.89 million An 101.84 million An 87.94 million An South America
1990s 14.24 million An 86.01 million An 71.76 million An South America
2000s 14.59 million An 71.14 million An 56.55 million An South America
2010s 23.73 million An 65.95 million An 42.22 million An South America
2020s 29.56 million An 64.42 million An 34.86 million An South America

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher sheep — stocks, Mongolia or South America?
South America, at 63.73 million An against 24.49 million An in Mongolia as of 2024.
What is the difference in sheep — stocks between Mongolia and South America?
39.24 million An, with South America ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Mongolia and South America?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Mongolia and South America rank globally for sheep — stocks?
Mongolia ranks 16th and South America ranks 16th of 179 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Sheep — Stocks. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Mongolia vs South America: Sheep — Stocks. Statizoid, drawing on Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved 22 August 2026, from https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/sheep-stocks-3/mongolia/south-america/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/sheep-stocks-3/mongolia/south-america/">Mongolia vs South America: Sheep — Stocks</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Sheep — Stocks
Unit
An
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
224 places, 12,958 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.