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Tables: 5.1a-5.1b | 5.1c-5.1d | 5.2a-5.2b | 5.2c-5.3

Table 5.2c (1 of 2)

U.S. Annual Pounds of Pesticide Active Ingredient

By Pesticide Type, 1980 - 1989 (Millions of Pounds of Active Ingredient)

Industry/Commercial/Government Market Sector


Pesticide Type	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
Herbicides/ PGR	83	82	80	80	78	70	68	65	64	63
Insecticides	35	34	33	32	31	30	29	28	27	27
Fungicides	45	43	41	40	38	37	36	34	32	31
Other Conv. (1)	46	46	45	45	41	41	41	39	39	38
Other (2)	25	24	24	24	24	23	23	22	22	22
Total	234	229	223	221	212	201	197	188	184	181

Note: Excludes wood preservatives, specialty biocides, and chlorine/hypochlorites.
Source: EPA estimates based on Croplife America annual surveys, USDA/NASS (http://www.usda.gov/nass

), and EPA proprietary data.
((1) Other conventional pesticides include nematicides, fumigants, and other conventional pesticides.
((2) "Other" includes sulfur, petroleum, and other chemicals used as pesticides, e.g., sulfuric acid and insect repellants.

Table 5.2c (2 of 2)

U.S. Annual Pounds of Pesticide Active Ingredient

By Pesticide Type, 1990 - 1999 (Millions of Pounds of Active Ingredient)

Industry/Commercial/Government Market Sector

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Pesticide Type	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Herbicides/ PGR	63	60	58	56	52	48	49	49	41	52
Insecticides	27	26	27	30	30	28	24	20	21	19
Fungicides	31	30	28	25	23	20	20	20	24	24
Other Conv. (1)	38	37	36	36	34	31	30	30	30	31
Other (2)	22	21	21	20	20	22	22	22	22	22
Total	181	174	170	167	159	149	145	141	138	148

Note: Excludes wood preservatives, specialty biocides, and chlorine/hypochlorites.
Source: EPA estimates based on Croplife America annual surveys, USDA/NASS (http://www.usda.gov/nass

Figure 5.2c

U.S. Annual Pounds of Pesticide Active Ingredient

By Pesticide Type, 1980 - 1999

Industry/Commercial/Government Market Sector

Stacked Area Graph: Millions of Pounds of Active Ingredient by Year. (This chart depicts the data as presented in Table 5.2c)

Table 5.2d (1 of 2)

U.S. Annual Pounds of Pesticide Active Ingredient

By Pesticide Type, 1980 - 1989 (Millions of Pounds of Active Ingredient)

Home and Garden Market Sector


Pesticide Type	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
Herbicides/ PGR	35	36	37	38	40	40	41	42	43	44
Insecticides	30	27	24	22	20	18	16	14	13	12
Fungicides	18	17	17	16	15	14	14	14	13	13
Other Conv. (1)	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2
Other (2)	69	68	67	67	67	67	67	67	67	68
Total	155	151	148	146	145	142	141	140	139	139

Note: Excludes wood preservatives, specialty biocides, and chlorine/hypochlorites.
Source: EPA estimates based on Croplife America annual surveys, USDA/NASS (http://www.usda.gov/nass

Table 5.2d (2 of 2)

U.S. Annual Pounds of Pesticide Active Ingredient

By Pesticide Type, 1990 - 1999 (Millions of Pounds of Active Ingredient)

Home and Garden Market Sector


Pesticide Type	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Herbicides/ PGR	46	46	46	46	46	47	48	49	49	54
Insecticides	12	12	12	13	13	12	12	13	13	14
Fungicides	10	9	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	10
Other Conv. (1)	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Other (2)	66	65	64	62	61	59	60	60	60	60
Total	36	134	132	131	130	128	130	132	132	140

Note: Excludes wood preservatives, specialty biocides, and chlorine/hypochlorites.
Source: EPA estimates based on Croplife America annual surveys, USDA/NASS (http://www.usda.gov/nass

), and EPA proprietary data.
(1) Other conventional pesticides include nematicides, fumigants, and other conventional pesticides.
(2) "Other" includes sulfur, petroleum, and other chemicals used as pesticides, e.g., sulfuric acid and insect repellants.

Figure 5.2d

U.S. Annual Pounds of Pesticide Active Ingredient

By Pesticide Type, 1980 - 1999, Home and Garden Market Sector

Stacked Area Graph: Millions of Pounds of Active Ingredient by Year. (This chart depicts the data as presented in Table 5.2d)

Table 5.3

U.S. Pounds of Conventional Pesticide Active Ingredient

Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Market Sector Shares, 1964 - 1999


Year	Total U.S.	Agricultural Sector		Non-Agricultural Sector
	Mil lbs of a.i.	Mil lbs of a.i.	% of total U.S.	Mil lbs of a.i.
1964	617	366	59%	251
1965	658	396	60%	262
1966	682	414	61%	268
1967	712	429	60%	283
1968	742	457	62%	285
1969	763	491	64%	272
1970	760	499	66%	261
1971	793	528	67%	265
1972	843	575	68%	268
1973	882	607	69%	275
1974	964	688	71%	276
1975	1,013	729	72%	284
1976	1,041	753	72%	288
1977	1,084	794	73%	290
1978	1,106	813	74%	293
1979	1,144	843	74%	301
1980	1,121	826	74%	295
1981	1,118	831	74%	287
1982	1,084	804	74%	280
1983	1,021	745	73%	276
1984	1,061	794	75%	267
1985	1,020	767	75%	253
1986	988	739	75%	249
1987	906	666	74%	240
1988	925	690	75%	235
1989	942	712	76%	230
1990	949	720	76%	229
1991	928	708	76%	220
1992	940	723	77%	217
1993	914	698	76%	216
1994	984	776	79%	208
1995	961	765	80%	196
1996	996	803	81%	193
1997	958	767	80%	191
1998	912	724	79%	188
1999	912	706	77%	206

Note: Conventional pesticides only, excluding sulfur, oil and other chemicals used as pesticides (e.g., sulfuric acid and insect repellents), wood preservatives, specialty biocides, and chlorine/hypochlorites.
Source: EPA estimates based on Croplife America annual surveys, USDA/NASS (http://www.usda.gov/nass

), and EPA proprietary data.
See Table 3.5 for 1998 and 1999.

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