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Which countries have banned fur farming?

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Which countries have banned fur farming?
Countries that have banned fur farming at a national level.
Source
Fur Free Alliance (2024)with minor processing by Our World in Data
Last updated
December 17, 2024
Date range
2024–2024

Sources and processing

Fur Free Alliance – Fur banning

Legal status of fur farming around the world.

Retrieved on
December 17, 2024
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
Overview national fur legislation, Fur Free Alliance (2024).

Legal status of fur farming around the world.

Retrieved on
December 17, 2024
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
Overview national fur legislation, Fur Free Alliance (2024).

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Fur Free Alliance (2024) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “Which countries have banned fur farming?” [dataset]. Fur Free Alliance, “Fur banning” [original data]. Retrieved April 1, 2026 from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260325-171315/grapher/fur-farming-ban.html (archived on March 25, 2026).

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=IMPORTDATA("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fur-farming-ban.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false")
Python with Pandas
import pandas as pd
import requests

# Fetch the data.
df = pd.read_csv("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fur-farming-ban.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false", storage_options = {'User-Agent': 'Our World In Data data fetch/1.0'})

# Fetch the metadata
metadata = requests.get("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fur-farming-ban.metadata.json?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false").json()
R
library(jsonlite)

# Fetch the data
df <- read.csv("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fur-farming-ban.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false")

# Fetch the metadata
metadata <- fromJSON("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fur-farming-ban.metadata.json?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false")
Stata
import delimited "https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fur-farming-ban.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false", encoding("utf-8") clear