anyone know the statistics about the vegitarian population?

Question

like how many there are in my city, or state?

Answer 1

supposedly the figures for the numbers of vegans and vegetarians are hard to come by, and the statistics are little known outside of the UK and the USA

here are some interesting statistics about vegans/vegetarians in the USA (from 2006)
http://www.vrg.org/journal/vj2006issue4/...

here are the statistics for the UK (from wikipedia)
"In 2002, the UK Food Standards Agency reported that 5% of respondents self-identified as vegetarian or vegan. Though 29% of that 5% said they avoided "all animal products", only 5% reported avoiding dairy products.[4] In 2005, The Times estimated there were 250,000 vegans in Britain."

and i suppose i just found some for Australia (from 2000)
http://www.vnv.org.au/Statistics.htm#Aus...

But, i know that 35% of india's population are vegans............

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Worth question, but there was no satisfying answer when I posted this question before. This may help..
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070904235915AAa53pA
http://www.vegsoc.org/info/statveg.html
http://www.vegsoc.org/info/statveg.html

In term of population, India (Brahmin ethnic) is highest.
In term of percentage, Israel (Jewish) is highest.

The reason for those 2 ethnic groups being vegetarian is unknown, accept both ethnics are still regarded as the smartest and most genius in the world.

Answer 4

I don't know where you live but I think 5% of the population is a vegetarian/vegan.

Answer 5

I don't think that they keep track of that. Usually just by country. The only place you'll get any figures is a veger website though and we all know pro-veger and pro-meater websites aren't credible. Neither is wikipedia.

"I think its about 1/3 in US now."----LOL what?? Try 2-4%.

Answer 6

I think the closest you get is per country.

India has the highest with like 35% due to reglous (sp) beliefs.

Your best start of information is wiki and then follow the refs in it.

Answer 7

The vegetarian society collate research on the number of veggies, try there collection here:

http://www.vegsoc.org/info/statveg.html

Soem trends have to be ignored, such as the move to veggie when BSE, foot and mouth or blue tooth crop up, a lot of those peopel return to meat eating so you have to look at the figures long term

The resports include all sorts of breakdown such as age/sex/demographic/social standing ( ABC's etc )

Answer 8

In the US it's under 2%.

Answer 9

Fewer than most surveys say.

One survey I read said that most (like 90%) of people in U.S. who called themselves vegetarians ate fish of chicken at least once a week. Not very vegtatrian.
So you really can't believe what people say about it.

Maybe I'm a vegetarian because I like eating vegetarian meals? But I do eat lots of dead animal flesh too. Not any worse than dead plants in my view.

In the USA I'd say its way below 10% of the pop'n.

Answer 10

In my city there are about 23%---Delhi (India)