As of 01 July 2019, the total duck inventory was estimated at 11.83 million birds. This represents an increase of 1.0 percent compared with the previous year’s stocks of 11.71 million birds. Duck population  in backyard farms at 7.91 million birds declined by 2.1 percent from its previous year’s count of 8.08 million birds. Meanwhile, inventory in commercial farms at 3.92 million birds was 8.0 percent higher than its previous year’s count of 3.63 million birds. (Table 2)