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How many cattle are there in the world?

1.5 billion
cattle
1,500,000,000 exactly, give or take
1.5 billion — and by weight, livestock now outweigh all wild mammals on Earth 15 to 1.SOURCEFAO
Scale check: 1.5 billion is roughly 1 in 8 people on Earth.
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