The Icelandic horse world is growing

The International organization of the Icelandic horse, FEIF has never counted as many members as they do now....

The member countries are increasing, the horse clubs are increasing and so are the number of horses also – they count a total of 243.815 horses in 19 member countries according to the figures of the organization.

Most of the horses are in Iceland, in Germany, Denmark and Sweden. The number of horses in Iceland is believed to be about 80.000 and they have grown in number of about 5000 in one year or about 6%. There are about 65.000 horses in Germany and in Denmark and Sweden there are about 30.000 horses and they have been growing in numbers in the past years.

Relatively they are growing in numbers the most in Austria, Canada and New Zealand or about 12% in each country and according to these figures the Icelandic horse stock is only decreasing in numbers in Italy, where they have decreased by 5 horses.

A total of 14.880 registered foals have been born in the year in the member countries, by far the highest number is in Iceland or 7.363 horses. About 2.600 foals were born in Germany, 2.162 in Denmark and in Sweden 1.287 foals were born.

Also, it says that a total of 610 stallions have been brought for breeding evaluation during the year and a total of 1.769 mares. Considering the horse flue last year the number of norses is considerably higher than last year, but a a littler fewer than in 2009. Also a total of 1900 mares came in for assessment and 879 stallions were assessed.

More interesting figures and calculations can be reached here at the database of the international association such as the number of registered stallions way back in time, the number of horse clubs and tournaments.