The National Statistics Office has announced that preliminary figures from this year’s livestock census showed that Mongolia has 2 million (7.1 percent) more animals (30,014,400), crossing the 30 million mark for the first time in six years.

Eighteen aimags had 5.3-18.5 percent more livestock.

Cattle were up 90,100; sheep  1,028,900; goats  88,000. Camel numbers fell 4,500, horses 4,700.

Now, Mongolia  has 252,100 camels, 2 million horses, 1.93 million cattle, 12.71 million sheep and 13.11 million goats