Table 1 Country-specific estimates of unowned cats and their 95% credible intervals, alongside a combined UK measure.

From: Human influences shape the first spatially explicit national estimate of urban unowned cat abundance

 

Area (size of urban area covered)

Mean unowned cat Population

Lower 95% Credible Interval

Upper 95% Credible interval

Country-specific

England (24,823 km2)

193,698*

122,479

287,608

N. Ireland (920 km2)

11,068

7,370

15,699

Scotland (2,739 km2)

21,218

13,418

31,418

Wales (2,242km2)

21,445

13,886

31,068

Total

UK (30,724 km2)

247,429

157,153

365,793

  1. *Estimates for England here are estimated using the standardised IMD quintiles to allow UK-wide estimates and are consequently different, although informatively similar, to the estimates that used the deciles.
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