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=== Population ===

[[File:Cattle-livestock-count-heads.png|thumb|upright=1.35|Cattle headcounts by country, as of 2021]]

Historically, the cattle population of Britain rose from 9.8 million in 1878 to 11.7 million in 1908, but beef consumption rose much faster. Britain became the "stud farm of the world" exporting livestock to countries where there were no indigenous cattle. In 1929 80% of the meat trade of the world was products of what were originally English breeds. There were nearly 70 million cattle in the US by the early 1930s.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Otter |first1=Chris |title=Diet for a large planet |date=2020 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-69710-9 |location=USA |page=26}}</ref>

Cattle have the largest biomass of any animal species on Earth, at roughly 400 million tonnes, followed closely by [[Antarctic krill]] at 379 million tonnes and humans at 373 million tonnes.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Bar-On |first1=Yinon M. |last2=Phillips |first2=Rob |last3=Milo |first3=Ron |date=21 May 2018 |title=The biomass distribution on Earth |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=115 |issue=25 |pages=6506–6511 |bibcode=2018PNAS..115.6506B |doi=10.1073/pnas.1711842115 |pmc=6016768 |pmid=29784790 |doi-access=free}}</ref> In 2023, the countries with the most cattle were India with 307.5 million (32.6% of the total), Brazil with 194.4 million, and China with 101.5 million, out of a total of 942.6 million in the world.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cook |first1=Rob |title=Ranking Of Countries With The Most Cattle |url=https://www.nationalbeefwire.com/ranking-of-countries-with-the-most-cattle |website=National Beef Wire |access-date=14 February 2024 |date=9 January 2024}}</ref>