Table 2.

Companion animal numbers and their commercial dry food consumptions in three countries.

	Dog			Cat
	China	Japan	The Netherlands	China	Japan	The Netherlands
Per capita food consumption (in kilograms per year)	48–243	19–123	61–247	20–34	18–31	20–33
Total numbers (in millions)	27.4	10.35	1.8	58.1	9.96	3.2
Total food consumption (in millions of kilograms per year)	1308–6656	194–1271	109–445	1168–1954	178–311	64–106