Number of farms with horses in Denmark 2009-2019

In Denmark, there were more than five thousand farms with horses as of 2019. This was a slightly increase compared to the previous year, where it amounted to almost 4.7 thousand. In both years, the number of horses on farms decreased. It declined from almost 46 thousand animals in 2018 to nearly 42 thousand animals in the year that followed.

Horse meat

   In the period from 2008 to 2018, the average producer prices of horse meat fluctuated. It increased slightly from approximately 8.5 thousand Danish kroner per metric ton in 2008 to around nine thousand Danish kroner per metric ton in 2019. With an average horse meat producer price of around six thousand Danish kroner per metric ton, it was lowest in 2011.

 International trade 

By the end of October 2018, Denmark exported live horses as well as asses, mules and hinnies valued at 5.34 million U.S. dollars. That year, this was the month with the highest export value. The import value of horses and the like into the country was also highest in October and amounted to 4.91 million U.S. dollars.