{"topic_id":"market_stats_uk_pdsa_paw_2024","category":"uk-market-stats","context":"---\ntopic_id: market_stats_uk_pdsa_paw_2024\ncategory: uk-market-stats\ntitle: \"UK — PDSA PAW Report 2024: estimated pet dog / cat / rabbit population\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"PDSA (People's Dispensary for Sick Animals) — PAW Report 2024, 'Pet Populations' page (pdsa.org.uk), first-hand published report, pulled 2026-07-30 (Tavily /extract)\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/market-stats/uk_pdsa_paw_2024_2026-07-30.txt\nsource_type: uk_charity_report_text\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-30\ntokens_estimated: 300\nverification:\n  method: substring_match\n  claims: 5\n  passed: 5\n  date: 2026-07-30\nsource_document: \"PDSA PAW Report 2024 — Pet Populations (first-hand UK pet-population survey)\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"PDSA (UK veterinary charity)\"\n  title: \"UK — PDSA PAW Report 2024: pet dog / cat / rabbit population estimates\"\n  url: \"https://www.pdsa.org.uk/what-we-do/pdsa-animal-wellbeing-report/paw-report-2024/pet-populations\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-07-30\"\n  ref: \"PDSA PAW Report 2024 (nationally representative annual survey)\"\n  doc_type: \"published survey report (first-hand)\"\n  needs_review: false\n---\n\n# UK — PDSA PAW Report 2024: estimated pet dog / cat / rabbit population\n\nSource: PDSA PAW Report 2024, \"Pet Populations\" page (pdsa.org.uk), first-hand published UK pet-population survey, pulled 2026-07-30. The PAW Report uses nationally representative annual data and a consistent methodology since 2011, enabling year-on-year tracking of UK pet populations. All figures below are verbatim from the source page.\n\n## Pet population estimates (2024)\n- \"In 2024, we estimate there are 10.6 million pet dogs, 10.8 million pet cats and 800,000 pet rabbits living in the UK.\"\n- \"Overall, 51% of UK adults own a pet of any type\" (a slight decrease from 2023, when 53% did).\n- \"28% of UK adults own a dog and 24% a cat\" (neither significantly different from 2023).\n- \"has been growing steadily since 2011 when it was 8.2 million dogs, to 10.6 million in 2024\" (dog population trend; 2024 not statistically significantly different from 2023).\n- \"the rabbit population from 2023 (1.1 million) to 2024 (800,000)\" (a decrease; new linear-regression analysis by PDSA shows no significant long-term trend).\n\nNote: PDSA is a UK veterinary charity; its PAW Report is a first-hand, annually repeated survey (methodology consistent since 2011), making it a primary source for UK pet-population counts (dogs, cats, rabbits). UK Pet Food (formerly PFMA) also publishes a Pet Population Report, but its headline counts are delivered as an image and are not extractable as text; PDSA's text-based figures are used here for C1 verifiability.\n\nSource: `pdf-raw/market-stats/uk_pdsa_paw_2024_2026-07-30.txt` — PDSA PAW Report 2024 Pet Populations page, pulled 2026-07-30.\n","sources":["uk-market-stats — UK — PDSA PAW Report 2024: pet dog / cat / rabbit population estimates (retrieved 2026-07-30)"],"source":{"authority":"uk-market-stats","title":"UK — PDSA PAW Report 2024: pet dog / cat / rabbit population estimates","url":"https://www.pdsa.org.uk/what-we-do/pdsa-animal-wellbeing-report/paw-report-2024/pet-populations","retrieved":"2026-07-30","ref":"","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"PDSA PAW Report 2024 — Pet Populations (first-hand UK pet-population survey)","verification_file":"pdf-raw/market-stats/uk_pdsa_paw_2024_2026-07-30.txt"},"source_document":"PDSA PAW Report 2024 — Pet Populations (first-hand UK pet-population survey)","source_file":"pdf-raw/market-stats/uk_pdsa_paw_2024_2026-07-30.txt","tokens_estimated":300,"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."}