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This paper provides estimates of these components from the world literature and examines their relationships with breed class (wool, dual-purpose, meat, milk, prolific) and within breed class, country and global region. Reproductive efficiency was estimated at 97.7 \u00b1 2.68, while values for fertility, fecundity and lamb survival were 83.9 \u00b1 0.95, 144.6 \u00b1 3.48 and 80.8 \u00b1 0.93%, respectively. Efficiency increased for each component, with the response being greatest for fecundity (R2 = 0.4896, p &lt; 0.001). Within breed classes, medium- and strong-wool Merinos were more (p &lt; 0.05) efficient than fine-wools, while narrow-tailed meat breeds were more fecund (p &lt; 0.05) than fat-tail, wool-shedders and hair types. Efficiencies in the single- versus multiple-gene prolific groups were 124.6 \u00b1 32.52% and 152.9 \u00b1 10.1%, respectively. 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