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Abstract
The aim of the paper is to identify the trends in the pork market in the world in the years 1990-2012. The subject
of the analysis are changes in the swine population and production as well and prices fluctuations. The idea is to
demonstrate that known in economics from the second half of the nineteenth century hog cycle is also a typical
feature of the contemporary economy. Author used the chosen methods of dynamic analysis, analysis of time series,
regression and correlation. Source of information is the data from Organization of the United Nations for Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and Eurostat.