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 Cattle livestock (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Cattle livestock (No.) by Geographic localization (NUTS - 2024) and Category (cattle livestock); Semi-annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Animal livestock survey
First available period 2nd Semi-annual 2023
Last available period 1st Semi-annual 2025
Dimensions
  • Data reference period (Semester)
  • Geographic localization (NUTS - 2024)
  • Category (cattle livestock)
Concepts
  • AGRICULTURAL HOLDING:  Technical-economic unit that uses common production factors such as labour, machinery, facilities, land, among others, fulfilling the following four conditions: 1) yield agricultural products or maintain, in good agricultural and environmental conditions, the lands that are no longer used for productive purposes; 2) reach or exceed a certain size (in area or number of animals); 3) be subject to a single management; 4) be located in a well-defined and identifiable area.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • CATTLE:  Domestic animals of the species "Bos taurus".
  • ANIMAL LIVESTOCK:  Animals owned by an agricultural holding and those bred under contract by the holding.
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  3
Observations
Last update date 20/09/2025


information presented in 10/11/2025