List of world stocks of beehives

This is a '''list of the total world STOCK of beehives'''.
The data is compiled by the FAO - the [[Food and Agriculture Organization]] of the United Nations. According to the FAO the statistics may include official as well as semi-official, estimated and calculated data.

Between 1961 and 2013, the worldwide number of beehives have increased from 49 million to over 80 million.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ World Stocks of Beehives

|- valign="top"
! Year
! World Total

|-
|1961
|49,173,473

|-
|1962
|49,639,027

|-
|1963
|49,970,283

|-
|1964
|49,625,534

|-
|1965
|50,368,109

|-
|1966
|52,083,386

|-
|1967
|52,288,194

|-
|1968
|52,573,800

|-
|1969
|53,478,677

|-
|1970
|54,019,911

|-
|1971
|54,174,200

|-
|1972
|54,482,023

|-
|1973
|55,310,535

|-
|1974
|55,195,675

|-
|1975
|55,851,124

|-
|1976
|55,740,283

|-
|1977
|56,204,567

|-
|1978
|57,706,024

|-
|1979
|58,491,794

|-
|1980
|60,198,428

|-
|1981
|62,248,861

|-
|1982
|63,622,700

|-
|1983
|64,671,383

|-
|1984
|66,060,290

|-
|1985
|67,458,523

|-
|1986
|67,129,592

|-
|1987
|67,443,256

|-
|1988
|68,277,761

|-
|1989
|69,236,607

|-
|1990
|69,237,913

|-
|1991
|70,598,977

|-
|1992
|67,384,907

|-
|1993
|66,211,057

|-
|1994
|65,784,312

|-
|1995
|66,0192,28

|-
|1996
|66,105,702

|-
|1997
|66,298,243

|-
|1998
|66,878,512

|-
|1999
|68,303,562

|-
|2000
|70,708,483

|-
|2001
|71,972,678

|-
|2002
|73,221,799

|-
|2003
|73,186,796

|-
|2004
|74,089,259

|-
|2005
|75,326,727

|-
|2006
|76,183,282

|-
|2007
|75,129,311

|-
|2008
|75,966,775

|-
|2009
|76,187,911

|-
|2010
|78,077,511

|-
|2011
|78,565,751

|-
|2012
|80,446,912

|-
|2013
|80,986,086

|}

==External links==
*[http://faostat3.fao.org/ FAO statistics database]

[[Category:Lists by population (non-human)]]
[[Category:Beehives]]