Table 1. Relative growth of cattle numbers and percentage (standard error) in Brazil from 1977 to 2011 in 5-year periods by region.
| Year Interval | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regions | 77–81 | 82–86 | 87–91 | 92–96 | 97–01 | 02/06 | 07/11 | |||||||
| N°head | % | N°head | % | N°head | % | N°head | % | N°head | % | N°head | % | N°head | % | |
| MW | 298,900a | 43.31b | 388,884a | 17.13b | 969,797a | 25.22a | 564,002a | 14.58b | 621,752a | 14.45b | 749,685a | 8.83c | 757,887a | 9.04b |
| (5582) | (7.91) | (5821) | (3.24) | (6156) | (4.75) | (6833) | (3.48) | (7076) | (1.51) | (8470) | (1.54) | (8362) | (0.8) | |
| N | 66,973cd | 375.64a | 101,116b | 78.58a | 144,380b | 27.91a | 196,092b | 32.84a | 255,299b | 43.67a | 415,802b | 39.83a | 451,584b | 19.1a |
| (1691) | (146.53) | (2102) | (24.19) | (2901) | (5.89) | (3026) | (7.71) | (3193) | (3.95) | (5766) | (4.48) | (6691) | (3.2) | |
| NE | 580,62d | 30.41b | 61,998c | 13.38b | 71,232d | 8.59b | 66,548d | -1.81c | 63,395d | 0.10c | 72,338c | 22.76b | 80,417c | 8.76b |
| (442) | (1.45) | (452) | (1.25) | (465) | (0.77) | (475) | (1.22) | (465) | (2.05) | (492) | (1.18) | (549) | (1.44) | |
| S | 95,551bc | 18.76b | 103,429b | 5.77b | 106,362cd | -0.34c | 109,898c | 6.14bc | 111,485c | 1.62c | 116,694c | 2.79c | 115,926c | 9.53b |
| (1421) | (0.96) | (1450) | (1.17) | (1421) | (0.90) | (1348) | (1.34) | (1220) | (0.95) | (1302) | (1.3) | (1262) | (0.94) | |
| SE | 106,246b | 2.35c | 105,098b | 5.83b | 108,424bc | 5.23bc | 111,719c | 3.27c | 110,930c | 2.78c | 116,476c | 8.24c | 115,183c | 5.73b |
| (772) | (2.91) | (816) | (1.42) | (864) | (0.84) | (819) | (0.90) | (765) | (1.29) | (822) | (0.77) | (807) | (0.89) | |
| Average | 229,658 | 94.09 | 152,105 | 24.13 | 280,039 | 13.32 | 209,652 | 11.00 | 232,572 | 12.52 | 294,199 | 16.49 | 304,1994 | 10.43 |
| Total | 1,148.29 | 760,525 | 1,400.20 | 1,048.26 | 1,162.86 | 1,470.995 | 1,520.997 | |||||||
MW–Midwest; N–north; S–South, SE–Southeast, NE–Northeast. Means in the same column with different letters indicate a difference according to the Tukey test (P<0.05).