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. 2021 Feb 4;11:3052. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-81868-3

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Global distribution of laying hens by housing system. Distribution of laying hens in caged (red: conventional; furnished) and cage-free (green: barns, aviaries, free-range) systems in 78 countries (dark grey) for which hen inventories are available. The size of circles is proportional to the hen population in the country. Dark grey circles: countries for which the hen population is known, but the proportion of hens in each housing system is unknown. An interactive version of this figure is

available at http://hen-welfare.org/map, with further information available (by clicking on the pie charts) on data sources, proportion of hens in each system and layer populations. The map and graphic components were developed with the software Tableau Public, version 2020.3 (http://public.tableau.com).