1996-1997 Pesticide Market Estimates: Tables and Charts

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Table 1

U.S. and World Pesticide Sales at User Level

By Pesticide Type, 1997 Estimates

All Market Sectors


Pesticide Type (1)	U.S. Market		World Market		U.S. % of World Market
Pesticide Type (1)	Million	%	Million	%	U.S. % of World Market
User Expenditures (millions of dollars)
Herbicides	$6,846	58%	$16,886	46%	41%
Insecticides	$3,553	30%	$11,592	31%	31%
Fungicides	$802	7%	$6,037	16%	13%
Other (2)	$696	6%	$2,533	7%	27%
Total	$11,897	100%	$37,048	100%	32%
Volume of Active Ingredient (millions of pounds)
Herbicides	568	46%	2,254	40%	25%
Insecticides	129	10%	1,470	26%	9%
Fungicides	81	7%	539	9%	15%
Other (2)	453	37%	1,421	25%	32%
Total	1,231	100%	5,684	100%	22%

Note: Excludes wood preservatives, specialty biocides, and chlorine/hypochlorites.
Source: EPA estimates based on Croplife America annual surveys and EPA proprietary data.

Figure 1a

U.S. vs. World Pesticide Sales

User Expenditures, 1997 Estimates

Clustered Column Chart: Millions of Dollars by Pesticide Type. (This chart depicts the data as presented in Table 1)

Figure 1b

U.S. vs. World Pesticide Sales

Volume of Active Ingredient, 1997 Estimates

Clustered Column Chart: Millions of Pounds by Pesticide Type. (This chart depicts the data as presented in Table 1)

Table 2

User Expenditures for Pesticides in the U.S.

By Class and Sector, 1996 - 1997 Estimates


Year	Herbicides/ Plant Growth Regulators		Insecticides/ Miticides		Fungicides		Other (1)		Total
Sector (2)	Mil $	%	Mil $	%	Mil $	%	Mil $	%	Mil $	%
1996
Agriculture	$5,399	82%	$1,542	45%	$658	80%	$470	67%	$8,069	70%
Ind/Comm/Gov	$721	11%	$559	16%	$140	17%	$68	10%	$1,488	13%
Home & Garden	$479	7%	$1,338	39%	$25	4%	$160	23%	$2,002	17%
Total	$6,599	100%	$3,439	100%	$823	100%	$698	100%	$11,559	100%
1997
Agriculture	$5,610	82%	$1,599	45%	$632	79%	$462	66%	$8,303	70%
Ind/Comm/Gov	$743	11%	$576	16%	$144	18%	$70	10%	$1,553	13%
Home & Garden	$493	7%	$1,378	39%	$26	3%	$164	24%	$2,061	17%
Total	$6,846	100%	$3,553	100%	$802	100%	$696	100%	$11,897	100%

Note: Totals may not add due to rounding. Table does not cover industrial wood preservatives, specialty biocides, and chlorine/hypochlorites.
Source: EPA estimates based on American Crop Protection Association (ACPA) annual surveys, USDA/ERS data series and input from Doane, Kline, and SRI Consulting.
(1) Includes nematicides, fumigants, rodenticides, molluscicides, aquatic, fish/bird pesticides, other miscellaneous conventional pesticides plus other chemicals used as pesticides, e.g., sulfur and petroleum. (See Table 3 for more detail.)
(2) Sector Definitions
Expenditures for pesticides in the U.S. are divided among economic sectors as follows:
Agriculture: applications by owner/operators and custom/commercial applicators to farms and facilities involved in production of raw agricultural commodities, principally food, fiber and tobacco; includes non-crop and post harvest usage as well as crop/field applications;
Ind./Comm./Govt.: applications by owner/operators and custom/commercial applicators to industry, commercial and governmental facilities, buildings, sites, and land; plus: custom/commercial applications to homes and gardens, including lawns;
Home & Garden: homeowner applications to homes and gardens, including lawns; single and multiple unit housing.

Figure 2

U.S. User Expenditure for Conventional Pesticides

By Pesticide Type, 1997 Estimates

Stacked Column Chart: Millions of Dollars by Pesticide Type. (This chart depicts the data as presented in Table 2)

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