Data from a Statista Consumer Insights survey reveals that dog ownership varies greatly around the world.

Where as many as seven in ten respondents said they had a dog as a pet in Mexico in a survey conducted between July 2023 and June 2024, under three in ten said the same in Sweden.

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In the United States, around half of respondents said they owned a dog.

Americans were most likely to own a dog, followed by a cat (36 percent), a fish (7 percent), a reptile (4 percent) and a bird (4 percent).

Only three percent of respondents said they owned a rodent, whether a rabbit, a hamster, guinea pig, mouse or rat.