The proposed manual provides statistical information on the state of one of the main branches of animal husbandry - poultry. throughout the world, parts of the world and individual countries. Data on the number of four species of agricultural poultry, poultry and egg production, exports, imports and consumption of poultry products are given Statistical information for 1960-2003. by 200 countries. For each indicator, fluctuations within a part of the world are given and the leading countries are allocated. The information presented in the manual has more than 20 thousand numbers . The manual is provided with summary tables and illustrated with graphs, diagrams, cartograms and pictograms, which allow to visualize the state, dynamics of development and placement of poultry farming and its products around the world, as well as to predict changes in the future. The manual uses data from the yearbooks of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) FAO Yearbook , Production" , "FAO Trade Yearbook" , ZMP Marktbilanz Vogel und Eier, statistical collections "People's Economy of the USSR" and "Agriculture of the USSR" , as well as data from the official FAO website.