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Replacement of horses by cars

k00b

I heard somewhere recently that there are more horses in the world today than there were when we used them for transportation and work. As of 2016 there were [60 million in the world](https://worldmapper.org/maps/horses-2016/):

> More than a sixth of the almost 60 million horses worldwide live in the United States (around 10 million), followed by Mexico, China and Brazil. The highest horse-to-human-ration anywhere in the world is in Iceland, which is home to the Icelandic horse, one of the oldest and purest breeds anywhere in the world, where you have around one horse for four inhabitants.