This is a list of even-toed ungulate species by estimated global population. This list is not comprehensive, as not all ungulates have had their numbers quantified.
| Common name | Binomial name | Population | Status | Trend | Notes | Image |
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| Saola | Pseudoryx nghetinhensis | 750[1] | CR[1] | Maximum estimate. No individuals in captivity. Wild population highly dispersed, and subpopulations fragmented with numbers of mature individuals below the minimum viable population. Foremost threatened by hunting.[1] | ||
| Pygmy hog | Porcula salvania | 250[2] | CR[2] | Maximum estimate for mature individuals.[2] | ||
| Bawean deer | Axis kuhlii | 200–500[3] | CR[3] | Estimates are for the wild population only; may reach as high as 500.[3] | ||
| Addax | Addax nasomaculatus | 30–90[4] | CR[4] | Maximum estimate for the wild.[4] | ||
| Tamaraw | Bubalus mindorensis | 300[5] | CR[5] | |||
| Togian babirusa | Babyrousa togeanensis | 500[6] | EN[6] | Maximum estimate.[6] | ||
| Walia ibex | Capra walie | 500[7] | EN[7] | |||
| Dama gazelle | Nanger dama | 500[8] | CR[8] | Maximum estimate.[8] | ||
| Hirola | Beatragus hunteri | 500–2000[9] | CR[9] | May be much lower.[9] | ||
| Anhui musk deer | Moschus anhuiensis | 700–800[10] | EN[10] | Most recent estimate was in 1998.[10] | ||
| Przewalski's gazelle | Procapra przewalskii | 700–800[11] | EN[11] | Could be underestimated.[11] | ||
| Persian fallow deer | Dama mesopotamica | 715[12] | EN[12] | Previously thought to be extinct.[12] | ||
| Wild Bactrian camel | Camelus ferus | 950[13] | CR[13] | Wild population only.[13] | ||
| South Andean deer | Hippocamelus bisulcus | 1048–1500[14] | EN[14] | |||
| Calamian deer | Axis calamianensis | 1123[15] | EN[15] | 1994 estimate; has almost certainly decreased.[15] | ||
| Abbott's duiker | Cephalophus spadix | 1500[16] | EN[16] | Maximum estimate.[16] | ||
| Cuvier's gazelle | Gazella cuvieri | 1750–2950[17] | EN[17] | unknown[17] | ||
| Nilgiri tahr | Nilgiritragus hylocrius | 1800–2000[18] | EN[18] | |||
| Pygmy hippopotamus | Choeropsis liberiensis | 2000–3000[19] | EN[19] | Estimate is from 1993; numbers have probably shrunk.[19] | ||
| Mountain anoa | Bubalus quarlesi | 2500[20] | EN[20] | Maximum estimate.[20] | ||
| Rhim gazelle | Gazella leptoceros | 2500[21] | EN[21] | Estimate is for mature individuals only.[21] | ||
| Visayan spotted deer | Rusa alfredi | 2500[22] | EN[22] | Maximum estimate.[22] | ||
| Mountain nyala | Tragelaphus buxtoni | 2500–4000[23] | EN[23] | 2500 is a maximum estimate from 1999, but recent work has shown numbers may be as high as 4000.[23] | ||
| European bison | Bison bonasus | 3200[24] | NT[24] | Includes 1400 semi-domestic animals and 1800 wild. Semi-domestic numbers are likely underestimated.[24] | ||
| Chacoan peccary | Catagonus wagneri | 3200[25] | EN[25] | Estimate was made in 2002; wide-scale deforestation of their habitat began in 2003.[25] | ||
| Wild water buffalo | Bubalus arnee | 3400[26] | EN | |||
| Jentink's duiker | Cephalophus jentinki | 3500[27] | EN[27] | Maximum estimate; may be less than 2000.[27] | ||
| Barasingha | Rucervus duvaucelii | 3500–5100[28] | VU[28] | |||
| Nile lechwe | Kobus megaceros | 4291[29] | EN[29] | |||
| Small red brocket | Mazama bororo | 4500[30] | VU[30] | Maximum estimate.[30] | ||
| Arabian tahr | Arabitragus jayakari | 5000[31] | EN[31] | Maximum estimate.[31] | ||
| West Caucasian tur | Capra caucasica | 5000–6000[32] | EN[32] | |||
| Barbary sheep | Ammotragus lervia | 5000–10000[33] | LC[33] | |||
| Beira | Dorcatragus megalotis | 7000[34] | VU[34] | |||
| Arabian Oryx | Oryx leucoryx | 7000–8000[35] | VU[35] | 6000–7000 in captivity and c. 1000 in the wild.[35] | ||
| Hairy-fronted muntjac | Muntiacus crinifrons | 7000–8500[36] | VU[36] | Most recent estimate was in 1998.[36] | ||
| Banteng | Bos javanicus | 8000[37] | EN[37] | Maximum estimate; may be fewer than 5000. Numbers do not include the non-purebred domestic variety.[37] | ||
| Markhor | Capra falconeri | 9700[38] | NT[38] | Estimate includes approximately 900 animals assumed to live in areas for which data is unavailable.[38] | ||
| Nubian ibex | Capra nubiana | 10000[39] | VU[39] | Maximum estimate.[39] | ||
| Southern pudú | Pudu puda | 10000[40] | NT[40] | Maximum estimate.[40] | ||
| Red goral | Naemorhedus baileyi | 10000[41] | VU[41] | Maximum estimate for mature individuals.[41] | ||
| Four-horned antelope | Tetracerus quadricornis | 10000[42] | LC[42] | |||
| Javan rusa | Rusa timorensis | 10000[43] | VU[43] | Maximum estimate for mature individuals.[22] | ||
| Taruca | Hippocamelus antisensis | 12000–17000[44] | VU[44] | |||
| Gaur | Bos gaurus | 13000–30000[45] | VU[45] | |||
| Soemmerring's gazelle | Nanger soemmerringii | 14000[46] | VU[46] | |||
| Mountain gazelle | Gazella gazella | 15000[47] | VU[47] | Maximum estimate.[47] | ||
| Wild yak | Bos mutus | 15000[48] | VU[48] | Estimate is from 1995.[48] | ||
| Giant eland | Tragelaphus derbianus | 15000–20000[49] | LC[49] | |||
| Black wildebeest | Connochaetes gnou | 18000[50] | LC[50] | Minimum estimate (11000 wild and 7000 semi-domesticated).[50] | ||
| Grey rhebok | Pelea capreolus | 18000[51] | LC[51] | |||
| Harvey's duiker | Cephalophus harveyi | 20000[52] | LC[52] | Numbers may be overestimated.[52] | ||
| Pampas deer | Ozotoceros bezoarticus | 20000–80000[53] | NT[53] | |||
| Red-fronted gazelle | Eudorcas rufifrons | 25000[54] | VU[54] | |||
| Zebra duiker | Cephalophus zebra | 28000[55] | VU[55] | Could be overestimated; may be less than 15000.[55] | ||
| Bongo | Tragelaphus eurycerus | 28000[56] | NT[56] | Two subspecies: Mountain (75–140) and Lowland (28000).[56] | ||
| Alpine ibex | Capra ibex | 30000[57] | LC[57] | Was as low as 100 individuals in the 1800s.[57] | ||
| Silver Dik-dik | Madoqua piacentinii | 30000[58] | DD[58] | Possibly overestimated.[58] | ||
| Nyala | Tragelaphus angasii | 32000[59] | LC[59] | |||
| Ogilby's duiker | Cephalophus ogilbyi | 35000[60] | LC[60] | |||
| Okapi | Okapia johnstoni | 35000–50000[61] | EN[61] | |||
| Mountain reedbuck | Redunca fulvorufula | 36000[62] | LC[62] | Minimum estimate, divided into three subspecies: Southern (33000), Chanler's (2900), and Western (450).[62] | ||
| Red forest duiker | Cephalophus natalensis | 42000[63] | LC[63] | Numbers may be underestimated.[63] | ||
| Klipspringer | Oreotragus oreotragus | 42000[64] | LC[64] | Estimate is considered conservative.[64] | ||
| Blackbuck | Antilope cervicapra | 50000[65] | NT[65] | Numbers have increased from 20000–24000 in the 1970s.[65] | ||
| Spanish ibex | Capra pyrenaica | 50000[66] | LC[66] | Numbered only c. 7900 in the early 1990s.[66] | ||
| Royal antelope | Neotragus pygmaeus | 62000[67] | LC[67] | Possibly underestimated.[67] | ||
| East African oryx | Oryx beisa | 67000[68] | NT[68] | Divided into two subspecies: Beisa (50000) and Fringe-eared (17000).[68] | ||
| Southern reedbuck | Redunca arundinum | 73000[69] | LC[69] | |||
| Sable antelope | Hippotragus niger | 75000[70] | LC[70] | |||
| Roan antelope | Hippotragus equinus | 76000[71] | LC[71] | |||
| Mountain goat | Oreamnos americanus | 80000–119000[72] | LC[72] | |||
| Gerenuk | Litocranius walleri | 95000[73] | NT[73] | |||
| Sharpe's Grysbok | Raphicerus sharpei | 95000[74] | LC[74] | Difficult to study due to the animal's nocturnal nature; numbers may be underestimated.[74] | ||
| Japanese serow | Capricornis crispus | 100000[75] | LC[75] | |||
| Black duiker | Cephalophus niger | 100000[76] | LC[76] | |||
| Bohor reedbuck | Redunca redunca | 101000[77] | LC[77] | Probably underestimated.[77] | ||
| Dall sheep | Ovis dalli | 111500–116500[78] | LC[78] | Consists of approximately 41500 sheep in Canada and between 70000 and 75000 animals in the United States.[78] | ||
| Hippopotamus | Hippopotamus amphibius | 115000–130000[79] | VU[79] | Population was estimated to be between 125000 and 148000 in a 2008 assessment.[79] | ||
| Lesser kudu | Tragelaphus imberbis | 118000[80] | NT[80] | Minimum estimate.[80] | ||
| Goitered gazelle | Gazella subgutturosa | 120000–140000[81] | VU[81] | |||
| Puku | Kobus vardonii | 130000[82] | NT[82] | |||
| Muskox | Ovibos moschatus | 135000[83] | LC[83] | Estimate includes 75400 animals in the Northwest Territories, 45300 in Nunavut, 3714 in Alaska, and between 9500 and 12500 in Greenland.[83] | ||
| Common eland | Tragelaphus oryx | 136000[84] | LC[84] | |||
| Yellow-backed duiker | Cephalophus silvicultor | 160000[85] | LC[85] | |||
| Saiga Antelope | Saiga tatarica | 165000[86] | CR[86] | Numbers stood at 1250000 in the mid-1970s.[86] | ||
| Red-flanked duiker | Cephalophus rufilatus | 170000[87] | LC[87] | |||
| Sitatunga | Tragelaphus spekii | 170000[88] | LC[88] | Yet-to-be-published research suggests the population has been overestimated.[88] | ||
| Weyns's duiker | Cephalophus weynsi | 188000[89] | LC[89] | |||
| Waterbuck | Kobus ellipsiprymnus | 200000[90] | LC[90] | About 95000 of the Defassa subspecies and 105000 of the Common.[90] | ||
| Lechwe | Kobus leche | 212000[91] | LC[91] | Combined numbers of three subspecies: Red (98000), Kafue (78000), and Black (36000).[91] | ||
| Bates's pygmy antelope | Neotragus batesi | 219000[92] | LC[92] | |||
| Water chevrotain | Hyemoschus aquaticus | 278000[93] | LC[93] | |||
| White-bellied duiker | Cephalophus leucogaster | 287000[94] | LC[94] | |||
| Black-fronted duiker | Cephalophus nigrifrons | 300000[95] | LC[95] | |||
| Vicuña | Vicugna vicugna | 347273[96] | LC[96] | |||
| Grant's gazelle | Nanger granti | 350000[97] | LC[97] | |||
| Hartebeest | Alcelaphus buselaphus | 362000[98] | LC[98] | |||
| Suni | Nesotragus moschatus | 365000[99] | LC[99] | |||
| Gemsbok | Oryx gazella | 373000[100] | LC[100] | |||
| Peters's duiker | Cephalophus callipygus | 382000[101] | LC[101] | |||
| Mongolian gazelle | Procapra gutturosa | 400000[102] | LC[102] | Unknown[102] | Estimate has dropped from 2700000 since 1998.[102] | |
| Greater kudu | Tragelaphus strepsiceros | 482000[103] | LC[103] | |||
| Salt's dik-dik | Madoqua saltiana | 485600[104] | LC[104] | |||
| Günther's dik-dik | Madoqua guentheri | 511000[105] | LC[105] | |||
| American bison | Bison bison | 530000[106] | NT[106] | Includes 500000 semi-domestic animals and 30000 wild (19000 plains bison and 11000 wood bison).[106] | ||
| Guanaco | Lama guanicoe | 535750–589750[107] | LC[107] | |||
| Thomson's gazelle | Eudorcas thomsonii | 550000[108] | NT[108] | |||
| Steenbok | Raphicerus campestris | 600000[109] | LC[40] | Considered an underestimate.[109] | ||
| Pronghorn | Antilocapra americana | 700000[110] | LC[110] | Numbered over 35000000 in the early 1800s and as little as 20000 in the early 1920s.[110] | ||
| Bay duiker | Cephalophus dorsalis | 725000[111] | LC[111] | |||
| Oribi | Ourebia ourebi | 750000[112] | LC[112] | |||
| African buffalo | Syncerus caffer | 890000[113] | LC[113] | Considered conservative. Divided into four subspecies: West African Savanna (27000), Central African Savanna (133000), Southern Savanna (670000), and Forest (60000).[113] | ||
| Kirk's dik-dik | Madoqua kirkii | 971000[114] | LC[114] | |||
| Siberian roe deer | Capreolus pygargus | 1000000[115] | NT[115] | About 500000 were hunted annually in Russia in the 1800s.[115] | ||
| Bushbuck | Tragelaphus scriptus | 1340000[116] | LC[116] | Estimate is considered conservative.[116] | ||
| Moose | Alces alces | 1500000[117] | LC[117] | |||
| Blue wildebeest | Connochaetes taurinus | 1550000[118] | LC[118] | |||
| Common duiker | Sylvicapra grimmia | 1660000[119] | LC[119] | Considered extremely conservative; yet-to-be-published research shows it may number as high as 10000000.[119] | ||
| Impala | Aepyceros melampus | 2000000[120] | LC[120] | |||
| Springbok | Antidorcas marsupialis | 2000000–2500000[121] | LC[121] | |||
| Maxwell's duiker | Philantomba maxwellii | 2137000[122] | LC[122] | Quite possibly underestimated.[122] | ||
| Blue duiker | Philantomba monticola | 7000000[123] | LC[123] | Estimate is considered conservative.[123] | ||
| White-tailed deer | Odocoileus virginianus | 11500000[124] | LC[124] | Estimated population in the United States and Canada only, with estimate of 11000000 in the US considered a minimum.[124] | ||
| Water buffalo | Bubalus bubalis | 172000000[125] | Domesticated | incl. 3200000 Carabao in the Philippines | ||
| Domestic goat | Capra hircus | 850000000[126] | Domesticated | |||
| Cattle | Bos taurus | 1500000000[127] | Domesticated | |||
| Domestic pig | Sus domesticus | 1000000000[128] | Domesticated | |||
| Domestic sheep | Ovis aries | 1000000000[128] | Domesticated | |||
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Key Conservation status Extinct in the wild (EW)
Critically Endangered (CR)
Endangered (EN)
Vulnerable (VU)
Near Threatened (NT)
Least Concern (LC)
Data Deficient (DD)
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