According to the FAOSTAT database of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the top five countries by number of heads of sheep (average from 1993 to 2013) were: mainland China(146.5 million heads), Australia (101.1 million), India (62.1 million), Iran (51.7 million), and the former Sudan (46.2 million). FAOSTAT, ‘FAOSTAT’, Statistics Division, 2015 <http://faostat3.fao.org/browse/Q/QA/E> [accessed 30 …