Source record
Estimating global numbers of farmed fishes killed for food annually from 1990 to 2019
Alison Mood, Elena Lara, Natasha Boyland and Phil Brooke (2023).
Key findings
- An estimated 124 billion farmed finfish were killed in 2019 (78–171 billion).
Record
- Source type
- Peer Reviewed Study
- Study type
- Modelling
- Topics
- Scale
- Geography
- See study or jurisdiction in title
- Funding & conflicts
- Not recorded.
- Source quality
- Moderate evidenceImported from the dated research notes; original-source editorial verification remains pending.
Limitations
- Numbers are derived from tonnage and assumed individual weights.
Claims this source supports
AnimalsStrong evidence
Around 85 billion land animals are slaughtered for food each year worldwide, the large majority of them chickens.
About ten land animals per person per year, most of them chickens. Fish are not counted individually, but likely add far more.