Europe's pet market — FEDIAF Facts & Figures 2024
FEDIAF (EuropeanPetFood) publishes the continent's reference pet-population and market dataset. The 2024 Facts & Figures were published in June 2026 and cover data year 2024.
Headline figures
- 140 million European households (49%) own one or more of Europe's 306 million pets.
- Annual pet-food sales of €29.4 billion, with a volume of around 8.6 million tonnes.
How the data is built
- FEDIAF liaises with all 15 national association members, who supply local population figures and market data where available.
- Soulor Consulting conducts a rigorous review, aligning data and adding verification against previous records, inflation figures and other metrics.
Geographic coverage and comparability
- The report covers all of the EU and EEA and most of the remaining Council of Europe members — 41 of 48 CoE members. Russia is no longer included.
- Because FEDIAF now gathers data from two years prior to publication (2026 → 2024 data), and because the country set changes, FEDIAF advises against direct year-on-year comparisons.
Notes
These headline figures come from FEDIAF's official statistics page (the companion annual-report PDF was corrupt/unparseable at pull time, so the HTML page is the first-hand C1 source). For species splits and growth rates, FEDIAF points to the downloadable report, which is not fully extractable here.
Sources
market_stats_fediaf_2024_headline— FEDIAF 2024 (pub. June 2026, data 2024): 140M households (49%) own 306M pets; annual sales €29.4B, volume ~8.6Mt; covers EU/EEA + 41/48 CoE; advises against YoY comparison.market_stats_fediaf_2024_scope— 15 national associations supply data; Soulor Consulting review; EU/EEA + 41/48 CoE (Russia excluded); data gathered two years prior to publication.