Evolution of pigs’ livestock and pork production in the world

Abstract

This paper work covers the evolution of pigs` livestock, meat production, and annual meat consumption per person during the years 2005-2016. Based on the obtained data was established a continuous growth of world pigs` livestock and meat production. In 2016 compared to 2005, the livestock on pig increased by 9.2% and the meat production was increased by 14.18%, what proves that production processes have been using the intensive methods and the increase in meat production has been based on the increase of animal production. The world pork consumption has been increased by 20.68%. That means that the total of 6.5% in growth was based also on the meat import.