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Are humans about to outnumber sheep in New Zealand?

Rob Beschizza
May 08, 2025
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New Zealand contains a vast army of sheep, which famously outnumber humans there. But the ratio is slowly trending down with the international decline of the wool trade. Government statistics show that the jokes are old: long-gone are the days when there were fifty sheep for every man. That said, with 23.6 million sheep an…

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