As of 01 July  2020, the total goat inventory in the country was estimated at 3.99 million heads, an increase of 4.2 percent from the 3.83 million heads recorded in the same period of 2019. Of the total goat population, almost all (98.7%) were raised in backyard farms while the remaining (1.3%) were from commercial farms.

The top three regions, in terms of inventory, were Central Visayas, Western Visayas, and Ilocos Region. These regions accounted for 40.0 percent of the country’s total goat inventory. (Figure 2 and Table 2)