The global progress tracker

Every animal. Every action. The road to zero.

A transparent, community-verified map of what it will take to end factory farming — and live tracking of whether we are getting there. North star: zero factory farmed animals.

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Animals in factory farms right now

77,000,000,000
Increasing +1.4% year-on-year · driven by Asia

Estimated ±12% · FAO 2023 baseline · see full methodology

Global progress toward zero 14%

Every completed task moves this bar · 8 pillars tracked · target: 100% = zero

Slaughtered this year

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Since Jan 1 · FAO annual data

Slaughtered today

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Since midnight UTC

Since you arrived

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Animals slaughtered since page loaded

Our definition Factory farming: any system where stocking density or confinement prevents animals from expressing the majority of natural behaviours for the majority of their lives, operationalised by species-specific measurable thresholds based on the Five Freedoms framework. Full definition & methodology →
The framework

8 pillars. Every solution. One goal.

Mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive. Factory farming cannot end unless all eight pillars move. Click any pillar to explore solutions, concrete tasks, and sources.

Timeline

From the first broiler shed to zero.

Key milestones — past and future. Every future date is an estimate with an honest confidence rating. A goal without a date is a wish.

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Legislation Corporate Alt supply Finance Culture Knowledge Just transition Trade Setback
Methodology — how we calculate every number on this page Show ↓

Animals currently in factory farms

Base: FAO FAOSTAT 2023 livestock population data. Applied FFF factory farming definition thresholds by species. Estimated 73–80B animals meet definition globally. Displayed as point-in-time estimate, updated annually when FAO publishes new data. Margin of error ±12% reflects definition boundary uncertainty and data gaps in non-OECD countries.

Slaughter counters

Annual: FAO 2023 slaughter data (~80B land animals/year in factory systems). Year counter: annual figure × (days elapsed / 365). Day counter: annual ÷ 365. Visit counter: annual ÷ 31,536,000 seconds × elapsed seconds since page load. All extrapolated from annual data — not real-time government feeds. Updated annually when new FAO data is published.

Progress percentages

Each pillar score is a weighted average of its L2 solution scores, weighted by animal numbers affected. Each L2 score is derived from measurable proxies — jurisdictions with legislation, companies with verified commitments, market share of alternatives — divided by the total needed for 100%. All calculations shown explicitly at every level. Every number is contestable: email contribute@factoryfarmfall.org.

Global score (14%)

Weighted average across 8 pillars. Weights reflect leverage and animal numbers affected: Legislation 20%, Corporate behaviour 18%, Alternative supply 15%, Finance 12%, Culture & demand 12%, Knowledge & transparency 10%, Just transition 7%, Trade & global south 6%. Score will be revised as community challenges methodology. Version 1.0 — see changelog.

Primary sources

  • FAO. (2023). FAOSTAT: Livestock primary data. Food and Agriculture Organization. https://www.fao.org/faostat/
  • BBFAW. (2024). Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare 2024 Annual Report. https://www.bbfaw.com/
  • Sentience Institute. (2023). Global farmed animal numbers. https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/
  • Our World in Data. (2024). Meat and dairy production. https://ourworldindata.org/meat-production
  • Good Food Institute. (2024). State of the Industry Reports 2024. https://gfi.org/resources/
  • FAIRR Initiative. (2024). Protein Producer Index 2024. https://www.fairr.org/
  • Open Wing Alliance. (2024). Global Corporate Cage-Free Commitments Tracker. https://openwingalliance.org/
  • Šimčikas, S. (2023). Is the percentage of animals factory farmed increasing? Rethink Priorities.

All data, methodology, and source code are open. Dispute a number or submit new data: contribute@factoryfarmfall.org — Framework version 1.0 · Published May 2025 · Updated when data changes