Editing Beekeeping (section)

== World apiculture ==
According to [[Food and Agriculture Organization]] data,<ref>{{Cite web|title=FAOSTAT|url=https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/|access-date=2022-01-26|website=www.fao.org}}</ref> the world's beehive stock rose from around 50 million in 1961 to around 83 million in 2014, which represents an annual average growth of  1.3%. Average annual growth has accelerated to 1.9% since 2009.

[[File:World beehive stock 1961-2014 (FAO).png|thumb|600x600px|World's stock of beehives from 1961 to 2014]]

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ World honey production and consumption in 2005
|-
! Country || Production (1000 metric tons) || Consumption (1000 metric tons)|| Number of beekeepers||Number of bee hives
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! colspan="5" style="text-align:left;"| Europe and Russia
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|{{flagicon|Ukraine}} [[Ukraine]] (*2019)
| style="text-align:right;"| *69.94
| style="text-align:right;"| 52
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|{{flagicon|Russia}} [[Russia]] (*2019)
| style="text-align:right;"| 63.53
| style="text-align:right;"| 54
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|{{flagicon|Spain}} [[Spain]]
| style="text-align:right;"| 37.00
| style="text-align:right;"| 40
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|-
|{{flagicon|Germany}} [[Germany]] (*2008)
| style="text-align:right;"| 21.23
| style="text-align:right;"| 89
| style="text-align:right;"| 90,000*
| style="text-align:right;"| 1,000,000*
|-
|{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Hungary]]
| style="text-align:right;"| 19.71
| style="text-align:right;"| 4
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|{{flagicon|Romania}} [[Romania]]
| style="text-align:right;"| 19.20
| style="text-align:right;"| 10
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|{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Greece]]
| style="text-align:right;"| 16.27
| style="text-align:right;"| 16
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|{{flagicon|France}} [[France]]
| style="text-align:right;"| 15.45
| style="text-align:right;"| 30
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|-
|{{flagicon|Bulgaria}} [[Bulgaria]]
| style="text-align:right;"| 11.22
| style="text-align:right;"| 2
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|-
|{{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Serbia]]
| style="text-align:right;"|3 to 5
| style="text-align:right;"| 6.3
| style="text-align:right;"| 30,000
| style="text-align:right;"| 430,000
|-
|{{flagicon|Denmark}} [[Denmark]] (*1996)
| style="text-align:right;"| 2.5
| style="text-align:right;"| 5
| style="text-align:right;"| *4,000
| style="text-align:right;"| *150,000
|-
! colspan="5" style="text-align:left;"| North America
|-
|{{flagicon|USA}} [[United States]] (*2006, **2002, ***2019)
| style="text-align:right;"| ***71.18
| style="text-align:right;"| 158.75*
| style="text-align:right;"| 12,029** (210,000 bee keepers)
| style="text-align:right;"| ***2,812,000
|-
|{{flagicon|Canada}} [[Canada]]
| style="text-align:right;"| 45 (2006); 28 (2007)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/23-221-x/23-221-x2007000-eng.pdf |title=ARCHIVED – PDF document |website=Statcan.gc.ca |date=2010-05-17 |access-date=2016-03-12 |archive-date=2022-01-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220119131243/https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/23-221-x/23-221-x2007000-eng.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> 80.35(2019)
| style="text-align:right;"| 29
| style="text-align:right;"|13,000
| style="text-align:right;"|500,000
|-
! colspan="5" style="text-align:left;"| Latin America
|-
|{{flagicon|Argentina}} [[Argentina|Argentina (*2019)]]
| style="text-align:right;"| 93.42 (Average 84)<ref name="vef.hr">{{cite journal |url=http://www.vef.hr/vetarhiv/papers/2009-79-4-9.pdf |title=Economic aspects of beekeeping production in Croatia |journal=Veterinarski Arhiv |volume=79 |pages=397–408 |date=2009 |access-date=2016-03-12 |archive-date=2011-07-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721103122/http://www.vef.hr/vetarhiv/papers/2009-79-4-9.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
| style="text-align:right;"| 3
|
|*2984290
|-
|{{flagicon|Mexico}} [[Mexico]] (*2019)
| style="text-align:right;"| *61.99
| style="text-align:right;"| 31
|
|*2157870
|-
|{{flagicon|Brazil}} [[Brazil]]
| style="text-align:right;"| 33.75
| style="text-align:right;"| 2
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|-
|{{flagicon|Uruguay}} [[Uruguay]]
| style="text-align:right;"| 11.87
| style="text-align:right;"| 1
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|-
! colspan="5" style="text-align:left;"| Oceania
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|{{flagicon|Australia}} [[Australia]]
| style="text-align:right;"| 18.46
| style="text-align:right;"| 16
| style="text-align:right;"| 12,000
| style="text-align:right;"| 520,000<ref>Bee Aware website [http://beeaware.org.au/industry/ Industry] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160514012337/http://beeaware.org.au/industry/ |date=2016-05-14 }} Retrieved May 13, 2016</ref>
|-
|{{flagicon|New Zealand}} [[New Zealand]]
| style="text-align:right;"| 9.69
| style="text-align:right;"| 8
| style="text-align:right;"| 2602
| style="text-align:right;"| 313,399
|-
! colspan="5" style="text-align:left;"| Asia
|-
|{{flagicon|PRC}} [[China]] (*2019)
| style="text-align:right;"| *444.1
| style="text-align:right;"| 238
|
| style="text-align:right;"| 7,200,000<ref name="vef.hr" />
|-
|{{flagicon|Turkey}} [[Turkey]] (*2019)
| style="text-align:right;"| *109.33
| style="text-align:right;"| 66
|
| style="text-align:right;"| 4,500,000<ref name="vef.hr" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.uniud.it/eurbee/Proceedings/beekeeping%20in%20EU.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051218011253/http://web.uniud.it/eurbee/Proceedings/beekeeping%20in%20EU.pdf |archive-date=2005-12-18 |title=The prospects for beekeeping in the expanded EU }}</ref>
|-
|{{flagicon|Iran}} [[Iran]] (*2019)
|*75.46
|
|
| style="text-align:right;"| 3,500,000<ref name="vef.hr" />
|-
|{{flagicon|India}} [[India]]
| style="text-align:right;"| 52.23
| style="text-align:right;"| 45
|
| style="text-align:right;"| 9,800,000<ref name="vef.hr" />
|-
|{{flagicon|ROK}} [[South Korea]]
| style="text-align:right;"| 23.82
| style="text-align:right;"| 27
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|-
|{{flagicon|Vietnam}} [[Vietnam]]
| style="text-align:right;"| 13.59
| style="text-align:right;"| 0
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|-
|{{flagicon|Turkmenistan}} [[Turkmenistan]]
| style="text-align:right;"| 10.46
| style="text-align:right;"| 10
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|-
! colspan="5" style="text-align:left;"| Africa
|-
|{{flagicon|Ethiopia}} [[Ethiopia]]
| style="text-align:right;"| 41.23
| style="text-align:right;"| 40
|
| style="text-align:right;"| 4,400,000
|-
|{{flagicon|Tanzania}} [[Tanzania]]
| style="text-align:right;"| 28.68
| style="text-align:right;"| 28
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|
|-
|{{flagicon|Angola}} [[Angola]]
| style="text-align:right;"| 23.77
| style="text-align:right;"| 23
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|-
|{{flagicon|Kenya}} [[Kenya]]
| style="text-align:right;"| 22.00
| style="text-align:right;"| 21
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|-
|{{flagicon|Egypt}} [[Egypt]] (*1997)
| style="text-align:right;"| 16*
| style="text-align:right;"|
| style="text-align:right;"| 200,000*
| style="text-align:right;"| 2,000,000*
|-
|{{flagicon|Central African Republic}} [[Central African Republic]]
| style="text-align:right;"| 14.23
| style="text-align:right;"| 14
|
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|-
|{{flagicon|Morocco}} [[Morocco]]
| style="text-align:right;"| 4.5
| style="text-align:right;"|
| style="text-align:right;"| 27,000
| style="text-align:right;"| 400,000
|-
|{{flagicon|South Africa}} [[South Africa]] (*2008)
| style="text-align:right;"| ≈2.5*<ref name="cssr">{{cite web | url=http://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/sites/cssr.uct.ac.za/files/pubs/WP221.pdf | title=SURVEY OF BEEKEEPING IN SOUTH AFRICA | publisher=Centre for Social Science Research | date=July 2008 | access-date=January 23, 2012 | author1=Conradie, Beatrice | author2=Nortjé, Bronwyn | name-list-style=amp| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121202035254/http://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/sites/cssr.uct.ac.za/files/pubs/WP221.pdf | archive-date=December 2, 2012 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}</ref>
| style="text-align:right;"| ≈1.5*<ref name="cssr" />
| style="text-align:right;"| ≈1,790*<ref name="cssr" />
| style="text-align:right;"| ≈92,000*<ref name="cssr" />
|-
| colspan="5"|<small>''Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://faostat.fao.org/site/340/default.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310232049/http://faostat.fao.org/site/340/default.aspx |archive-date=2007-03-10 |title=FAOSTAT}}</ref><br/>''2019 data''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Beehive numbers by leading countries worldwide 2019|url=https://www.statista.com/statistics/755243/number-of-beehives-in-leading-countries-worldwide/|access-date=2021-03-29|website=Statista|language=en|archive-date=2021-02-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210203221159/https://www.statista.com/statistics/755243/number-of-beehives-in-leading-countries-worldwide/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Global leading producers of honey worldwide 2019|url=https://www.statista.com/statistics/812172/global-top-producers-of-honey/|access-date=2021-03-29|website=Statista|language=en|archive-date=2021-03-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306093136/https://www.statista.com/statistics/812172/global-top-producers-of-honey/|url-status=live}}</ref></small>
|}
{{smalldiv|Sources:
*Denmark: beekeeping.com<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.beekeeping.com/countries/denmark.htm|title=Apiservices – Beekeeping – Apiculture – Denmark/Danemark|website=Beekeeping.com|access-date=2016-03-12|archive-date=2016-03-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317214228/http://www.beekeeping.com/countries/denmark.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> (1996)
*Arab countries: beekeeping.com<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.beekeeping.com/articles/us/arab_countries.htm|title=The Future of Bees and Honey Production in Arab Countries|website=Beekeeping.com|access-date=2016-03-12|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304040112/http://www.beekeeping.com/articles/us/arab_countries.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> (1997)
*US: University of Arkansas National Agricultural Law Center,<ref>{{cite web|title=Farm Commodity Programs: Honey|url=http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/assets/crs/RS20759.pdf|work=nationalaglawcenter.org|publisher=National Honey Board|access-date=27 March 2014|year=2002|archive-date=27 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927184548/http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/assets/crs/RS20759.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> Agricultural Marketing Resource Center<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.agmrc.org/agmrc/commodity/livestock/beesapiculture/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061006121928/http://www.agmrc.org/agmrc/commodity/livestock/beesapiculture/ |archive-date=2006-10-06 |title=Bees}}</ref>
*Serbia<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pcela.rs/pcelarstvoSrbiaE.htm|title=Beekeeping in Serbia|first=Miljko|last=Šljivić|website=Pcela.rs|access-date=2016-03-12|archive-date=2016-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303173558/http://www.pcela.rs/pcelarstvoSrbiaE.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>}}