Annual Raccoon Count (Harvested/Culled or Estimated Population)

This statistic compiles country-level annual raccoon counts primarily from hunting/trapping “bag” (harvest) statistics and pest-control removals. In most countries, these counts represent raccoons removed from the wild in a given year/season, which is often the most consistently published proxy for raccoon abundance and human–raccoon conflict/management intensity.

Because many countries do not publish a national raccoon harvest figure (especially where raccoons are newly established, localized, or not a recognized game species), values are supplemented with structured estimates derived from invasion status and reported presence. For Belarus, the value represents an estimated total population (<1,000) rather than annual removals, because systematic national harvest data is not readily available for the early invasion stage. All non-sourced country values are conservative, order-of-magnitude estimates intended for visualization rather than official reporting.