What’s the most common type of livestock in each county - Swedish version

When I saw Erin’s post a couple of days ago, I immediately wanted to do same for Sweden and started searching for data sources.

Screenshot from Erin’s blog

Luckily, Jordbruksverket, the Swedish Board of Agriculture, has an open data page and publishes detailed data about the number of livestock every 4 years. The latest dataset was from June 2020, so I got the population by municipality for 1 January 2021 from SCB (Statistics Sweden). The shapefile comes from Valmyndigheten, the Swedish Election Authority.

The original livestock categories were grouped to big four categories, chicken, cattle, pigs and sheep. I made one map for each category, apparently there is no municipality in Sweden that has more sheep than people (you can click on the images for bigger versions).

The plots were made in R and you can find the (a bit messy) code on GitHub.

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