How many Veggies ... ?

Inhabitants (Million)

Vegetarians (total | % | statistics)

:

8.1

243,000 | 3 % |

Source: Vegane Gesellschaft Österreich

:

10.2

204,000 | 2 % |

Source: Survey carried out for GAIA

:

31.9

1,276,000 | 4 % | (estimate)

Source: Toronto Vegetarian Association

:

7.3

657,000 | 9 % |

Source: Swiss Union for Vegetarianism

Annotations: 9% according to the Nutritrend-Study from Néstle from 2001 are "almost" vegetarians (around 3% are really vegetarians)

:

10.2

153,000 | 1.5 % | ±0.5 

Source: StemMark Agency

:

82

7,380,000 | 9 % |

Source: Survey conducted by Institut Produkt und Markt

Annotations: [9,8 % (NeuePresse.de), 11 % (STERN)]

:

5.4

81,000 | 1.5 % | ±0.5 (estimate)

Source: Dansk Vegetarforening

:

45

1,800,000 | 4 % | (estimate)

Source: Asociacion Vegana Espanola (AVE)

:

60

less than 1,200,000 | less than 2 % |

Source: Alliance Végétarienne

:

4.5

166,500 | 3.7 % |

Source: Poll conducted by Spem communication group

:

4.1

246,000 | 6 % | (estimate)

Source: Vegetarian Society of Ireland

:

997.5

399,000,000 | 40 % |

Source: Hindu -CNN-IBN State of the Nation Survey

:

57

5,700,000 | 10 % |

Source: EURISPES - European Institute of political, economical and social studie

:

16.3

700,900 | 4.3 % |

Source: Nederlandse Vereniging voor Veganisme

:

4.6

92,000 | 2 % |

Source: Norsk Vegetarforening

:

38.6

less than 386,000 | less than 1 % |

Source:

:

10

30,000 | 0.3 % | s=0.02 p=95% 

Source: Nielsen survey for Centro Vegetariano

:

9

270,000 | 3 % | (estimate)

Source: Animal Rights Sweden

:

5.4

54,000 | 1 % | (estimate)

Source: Vegetarianska spolocnost

:

61

3,660,000 | 6 % |

Source: Mintel (2006)

Annotations: According to a 2007 survey for Linda McCartney Foods, around 10 per cent of Brits eat no red meat, and there is a huge amount of ‘meat reducers’, with 31 million people eating vegetarian most of the time.

:

303.9

9,724,800 | 3.2 % | (of adults) 

Source: Harris Interactive Service Bureau on behalf of Vegetarian Times 2008

Annotations: 10 percent of U.S., adults, or 22.8 million people, say they largely follow a vegetarian-inclined diet Note: A surprising 42% of all "vegetarians", or 4.8 millions adult Americans, considered slaughter of animals to be murder

According to the Vegetarian Resource Group, 4.7 million American adults are vegetarians or vegans (people who avoid all animal products, including cheese and eggs)

Source: http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/travel/18Choice.html

Australia:

20.385903

611,577 | 3 % | (estimate)

Source: Australian Vegetarian Society

Israel:

7

595,000 | 8.5 % |

Source: Survey conducted by Israeli Ministry of Health, 1999-2001