{"topic_id":"market_stats_fediaf_2024_headline","category":"market-stats","context":"---\ntopic_id: market_stats_fediaf_2024_headline\ncategory: market-stats\ntitle: \"FEDIAF Facts & Figures 2024 — European pet population & market size (households, pets, sales, volume)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"FEDIAF / EuropeanPetFood — 'European Pet Population and Market Data 2024' statistics page (europeanpetfood.org/about/statistics/), first-hand official page, pulled 2026-07-24\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/market-stats/fediaf_statistics_2024.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-24\ntokens_estimated: 280\nverification:\n  method: substring_match\n  claims: 6\n  passed: 6\n  date: 2026-07-24\n---\n\n# FEDIAF Facts & Figures 2024 — European pet population & market size\n\nSource: FEDIAF (EuropeanPetFood), \"European Pet Population and Market Data 2024\" statistics page (europeanpetfood.org/about/statistics/), first-hand official page, pulled 2026-07-24. Headline Facts & Figures for the European pet food market.\n\n## Headline statistics (data year 2024, report published June 2026)\n- \"Our report (published in June 2026) confirms a healthy growth of pet ownership with 140 million European households (49%) owning one or more of Europe's 306 million pets.\"\n- \"Annual sales of pet food products now stands at 29.4 billion euros and the volume is around 8.6 million tonnes.\"\n\n## Scope and context\n- \"FEDIAF's Facts & Figures are highly regarded throughout Europe and frequently referenced by authorities, stakeholders, and the media.\"\n- The data \"covers all of the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA) and most of the remaining Council of Europe member states (the report now covers 41 of the 48 CoE members).\"\n- Because of changes in countries included, FEDIAF \"advise against making direct year-on-year comparisons.\"\n\nNote: these headline figures come from the official FEDIAF statistics web page; the companion annual-report PDF on the same site was corrupt/unparseable at pull time, so the HTML page is used as the first-hand C1 source. For dog/cat species splits and growth rates, see `market_stats_fediaf_2024_scope` and the downloadable report.\n\nSource: `pdf-raw/market-stats/fediaf_statistics_2024.txt` — FEDIAF official statistics page (europeanpetfood.org/about/statistics/), pulled 2026-07-24.\n","sources":[],"tokens_estimated":378,"generated_at":null,"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."}