{"topic_id":"FEDIAF_2025_household_ownership","category":"fediaf","context":"---\ntopic_id: \"FEDIAF_2025_household_ownership\"\ncategory: \"fediaf\"\ntitle: \"FEDIAF 2025 — European household pet ownership by country\"\nlang: en\nsource_document: \"FEDIAF Annual Report 2025 (Facts & Figures: % of European Households Owning at Least One Dog or One Cat)\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"fediaf\"\n  title: \"FEDIAF 2025 — European household pet ownership by country\"\n  url: \"https://europeanpetfood.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/FEDIAF-AR-2025_Online.pdf\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-07-30\"\n  ref: \"FEDIAF Annual Report 2025, Facts & Figures by Country\"\n  doc_type: \"official source\"\n  needs_review: false\n---\nFEDIAF 2025 Annual Report, \"Facts & Figures: % of European Households Owning at Least One Dog or One Cat\" lists the following countries in order (verbatim from source):\n\nAlbania Austria Belgium Bosnia & Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czechia Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kosovo Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Rep. of Moldova Romania Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Türkiye Ukraine United Kingdom\n\nThe source presents, in the same country order, a run of 86 percentage values across two columns (dog-owning and cat-owning household percentages) plus a TOTAL EUROPE summary row (verbatim from source):\n\n24 17 30 24 24 29 14 42 21 22 24 20 21 14 50 17 25 28 24 27 12 34 21 28 24 18 24 17 49 39 24 45 24 29 39 27 15 12 5 19 31 25 28 33 25 25 15 13 23 19 18 23 31 25 13 34 30 18 22 25 37 31 32 25 22 25 23 25 30 41 32 25 48 25 15 32 17 21 31 14 30 26 25 27 26 27\n\nThe data are \"sourced via FEDIAF's National Association members and aligned by Soulor Consulting.\" FEDIAF's methodology notes the Total Europe / EU household-ownership percentages \"are calculated from those National Associations that submitted a number for households owning a pet (total) which were FR (estimated from 2022), DE, IT, NL, ES (estimated from 2022) & GB\" — these five/six countries account for \"59% of the total pet population (Total Europe, 64% for EU where GB was removed from the calculation as no long in the EU).\"\n","sources":["fediaf — FEDIAF 2025 — European household pet ownership by country (retrieved 2026-07-30)"],"source":{"authority":"fediaf","title":"FEDIAF 2025 — European household pet ownership by country","url":"https://europeanpetfood.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/FEDIAF-AR-2025_Online.pdf","retrieved":"2026-07-30","ref":"","doc_type":"official source","source_document":"FEDIAF Annual Report 2025 (Facts & Figures: % of European Households Owning at Least One Dog or One Cat)","verification_file":""},"source_document":"FEDIAF Annual Report 2025 (Facts & Figures: % of European Households Owning at Least One Dog or One Cat)","source_file":"","tokens_estimated":230,"generated_at":"2026-07-30","tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}