From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011:
Much of the international animal control data offered below
was collected by the United Nations Food & Agricultural Organization
during an online expert consultation conducted in mid-2010. The
United Kingdom data was collected by the eighth annual Dogs Trust
survey of U.K. dog wardens, and does not include dogs who are killed
after surrender to nonprofit humane societies--probably about half of
the actual total of dogs killed by U.K. shelters. The remainder was
collected by ANIMAL PEOPLE, in the same manner as the accompanying
U.S. data. Only the Canadian and Japanese totals include cats, who
are not commonly impounded in the other nations whose data is
presented. Nepal officially no longer kills dogs for animal control
purposes
Many of the differences in the rates of animal control dog
killing from nation to nation are attributable to differences in
national ratios of dogs to humans.
Known dogs-to-people ratios in the listed nations include:
Canada 1/10; Japan 1/13; Ukraine 1/15; United Kingdom 1/9. The
FAO believes the global ratio to be 1/16.
Ratios of dogs killed for animal control to total dogs among
the listed nations include: Canada 1/237; Japan 1/321; Ukraine
1/5; U.K. 1/1,060; U.S. 1/46.
Animals killed YEAR 1,000s Animals
per 1,000 people of people killed
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Belgium 0.5 2008 10,414 5,447
Canada 4.2 2010 33,487 141,200
Ireland 1.6 2010 4,203 6,500
Japan 2.4 2009 129,357 310,457
Kyrgyzstan 1.8 2010 5,432 10,000
Nepal 10.9 2000 23,151 252,345
Pakistan 5.7 2010 175,578 1,000,795
Ukraine 13.2 2004 45,700 603,240
U.K. 0.1 2010 61,113 6,404
