This statistic depicts organic food sales in the United States from 2005 to 2023. In 2023, organic food sales in the United States amounted to about 63.8 billion U.S. dollars.

Organic food

Organic foods are foods that are manufactured using organic farming standards. Those agricultural standards are regulated by the department of government responsible for them and contain regulations for the cultivation of food and animal welfare. In particular, the use of chemical fertilizers, synthetic pesticides, growth hormones and antibiotics is not allowed or only partly permitted. In addition, fewer food additives are permitted for the processing of organic foods. In the United States, organic foods are certified by the National Organic Program. Products which have fulfilled the criteria are labeled with the term ‘organic’ on the food packaging.

Organic food sales have experienced tremendous growth in the last decade. For this reason, not only specialized retailers sell organic foods but also traditional supermarkets and discounters. Widely known specialized organic retailers in the United States include Whole Foods Market and Sprouts Farmers Market. Whole Foods Market is the largest specialized organic retailer in the United States with headquarters in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1980 and operates more than 472 stores around the world.

In general, organic foods are usually offered at a higher price level than their conventional counterparts.

Among Millennials, the by now largest generation in the U.S., a sizeable share of almost 40 percent count organic food as one of their leading food priorities.

Whether or not organic foods are healthier and more nutritious compared to conventionally farmed produce is a much debated subject. Up to now, no evidence of significant differences between the two farming methods where taste or health are concerned has been established.

Census of Agriculture, 2021. Farms reporting organic products for sale, by organic status.

This statistic shows the sales of organic food and non-food products in the United States from 2008 to 2023. According to the report, U.S. organic food sales amounted to approximately 64 billion U.S. dollars in 2023.

In 2022, according to the report, the global organic production area amounted to approximately 96.4 million hectares. This constitutes an increase of over 50 million hectares during the last ten years.

The Organic INTEGRITY Database is a certified organic operations database that contains up-to-date and accurate information about operations that may and may not sell as organic, deterring fraud, increases supply chain transparency for buyers and sellers, and promotes market visibility for organic operations. Only certified operations can sell, label, or represent products as organic, unless exempt or excluded from certification. The INTEGRITY database improves access to certified organic operation information by giving industry and public users an easier way to search for data with greater precision than the formerly posted Annual Lists of Certified Operations. You can find a certified organic farm or business, or search for an operation with specific characteristics such as:

The status of an operation: Certified, Surrendered, Revoked, or Suspended The scopes for which an operation is certified: Crops, Livestock, Wild Crops, or Handling

The organic commodities and services that operations offer. A new, more structured classification system (sample provided) will help you find more of what you’re looking for and details about the flexible taxonomy can be found in the INTEGRITY Categories and Items list. Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: Organic INTEGRITY Database. File Name: Web Page, url: https://organic.ams.usda.gov/integrity/Default.aspx Find a specific certified organic farm or business, or search for an operation with specific characteristics. Listings come from USDA-Accredited Certifying Agents. Historical Annual Lists of Certified Organic Operations and monthly snapshots of the full data set are available for download on the Data History page. Only certified operations can sell, label or represent products as organic, unless exempt or excluded from certification.

Get statistical data on cultivated area, total production, marketed production, and farm value for organic vegetable production in Canada and Ontario. Statistical data are compiled to serve as a source of agriculture and food statistics for the province of Ontario. Data are prepared primarily by Statistics and Economics staff of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, in co-operation with the Agriculture Division of Statistics Canada and various government departments and farm marketing boards.

The global sales of organic food have increased between 2000 and 2022. In 2022, sales of organic food amounted to about 134.76 billion U.S. dollars, up from nearly 18 billion dollars in 2000.

Organic agriculture What constitutes organic food can vary significantly depending on the country and certifier, but it often refers to crops grown without artificial pesticides, genetic modifications, or petroleum-based fertilizers. For meat, dairy, and eggs to be labelled as organic, the animals must be raised on organic feed, given adequate time outdoors, and not fed growth hormones. In 2022, there were over 96 million hectares of organic farms worldwide. In India alone there were nearly 2.5 million organic food producers, more than any other country.

Organic food in the United States North America accounts for nearly half of the retail sales of organic food worldwide, making it the largest market for organic food aside from Europe, with most of that being attributed to the United States. Organic food in the United States has occupied a greater share of the total food sales every year since 2008. In 2020, about six percent of total food sales in the United States were generated by organic food.

From 2000 to 2019, the annual sales growth of organic food in the United States decreased from nearly 21 percent to nearly five percent, but jumped up to almost 13 percent in 2020.

Organic Agriculture in the United States

The exact definition of organic food differs across countries and certifiers. However, it often refers to crops grown without artificial pesticides, genetic modifications, or petroleum-based fertilizers. For meat, dairy, and eggs to be labelled as organic, the animals must not be raised on organic feed, given adequate time outdoors, and not fed growth hormones. In 2019, there was a total of approximately 22,687 certified organic farms in the United States. Roughly 69 percent of the certified organic farms were on cropland and roughly 31 percent on pasture- and rangeland.

American consumers of Organic Food

The sales of organic food in the United States have continuously increased from 2005 to 2019. Starting with approximately 13 billion U.S. dollars in 2005, organic food sales in the United States now amount to approximately 50 billion U.S. dollars. The share of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 who rather or almost only purchase organic food is roughly 36 percent. By contrast, only 12 percent of 50-to-64-year old’s have similar purchasing habits with regards to organic food.

The Organics Statistics (Access) database holds information on organic operators in the UK including the names and addresses of producers, processors, importers and statistical information relating to crop area and the number of livestock.

Annual data on the area, production and farm gate value of marketed organic fruits and vegetables.

1. Organic farming is considered beneficial for biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes but the role of agricultural land use intensity ('agricultural intensity'), particularly at regional scales, has often been neglected.
   

2. We used breeding season bird abundance estimates from paired organic-conventional fields in Saskatchewan (31 pairs), Ontario (36), and Québec (15), Canada to test two alternative predictions: That the positive effect of organic farming on bird abundance was; a) smaller when controlling for overall effects of local- and landscape-scale agricultural intensity (accounting for main effects on abundance); or b) increases with local- or landscape-scale agricultural intensity (an interaction effect of intensity x organic farming). We also evaluated whether positive effects of organic farming were stronger in regions with greater agricultural intensity.
   

3. The estimated effect of organic farming on the cross-species abundance of birds was only statistically supported in Ontario when not accounting for agricultural intensity. However, the estimated effect of organic farming was the same whether or not we controlled for agricultural intensity in Saskatchewan (supported positive effect) and Québec (unsupported effect). Little support existed for more positive effects of organic farming on abundance in areas with greater local- or landscape-scale agricultural intensity. In Ontario, there was a non-significant trend for more positive effects of organic farming in more intensively-farmed landscapes.
   

4. Our results showed, for the first time in North America, an effect of regional-scale agricultural intensity on the potential benefit of organic farms. The influence of organic farming on abundance was most positive in the region with the most intensive agriculture (Saskatchewan) and least positive in the region with the least intensive agriculture (Québec). Additionally, we showed that benefits of organic farming can be overestimated if the effects of local- and landscape-scale agricultural intensity are not considered. However, positive effects of organic farming on cross-species abundance and the abundance of individual species were still detectable when we controlled for agricultural intensity at local- and landscape-scales. 
   

5. *Synthesis and applications*. When evaluating impacts of organic farming on biodiversity, it is important to consider the intensity of surrounding agricultural practices at local to regional scales. Our cross-regional comparison showed that organic farming had the most positive effect on abundance of birds in the region with the most intensive agriculture (Saskatchewan) and least positive effect in the region with the least intensive agriculture (Québec). This demonstrates that birds can benefit from organic farming and this effect can be most pronounced in regions with more intensive agriculture, implying that birds may benefit most from expansion of the area of organic farming in regions where farming is most intensive.
   

This statistic shows the usage of organic foods in the United States from 2011 to 2020 and a forecast thereof until 2024. The data has been calculated by Statista based on the U.S. Census data and Simmons National Consumer Survey (NHCS). According to this statistic, 94.38 million Americans used organic foods in 2020. This figure is projected to increase to 98.69 million in 2024.

The Report Covers Europe Organic Food and Beverages Market Companies & Industry Statistics and it is Segmented by Product Type (Organic Food and Organic Beverages); by Distribution Channel (Supermarkets/Hypermarkets?, Convenience Stores, Specialist Stores?, Online Retailing, Other Distribution Channels?); and by Geography (United Kingdom, France, Italy, Russia, Germany, Spain and Rest of Europe). The market size is provided in terms of values (USD Million) during the forecasted years for the above segments.

The Southern Great Plains 1997 (SGP97) Hydrology Experiment originated from an interdisciplinary investigation, "Soil Moisture Mapping at Satellite Temporal and Spatial Scales" (PI: Thomas J. Jackson, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, MD) selected under the NASA Research Announcement 95-MTPE-03. The core of the 1997 experiment involves the deployment of the L-band Electronically Scanned Thinned Array Radiometer (ESTAR) for daily mapping of surface soil moisture. The region selected for investigation is the best instrumented site for surface soil moisture, hydrology and meteorology in the world. This includes the USDA/ARS Little Washita Watershed, the USDA/ARS facility at El Reno, Oklahoma, the ARM/CART central facility, as well as the Oklahoma Mesonet. The temporal coverage for this dataset is as follows: Begin datetime: 1995-10-01 00:00:00, End datetime: 2001-03-31 23:59:59. The Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Southern Great Plains (SGP) Organic Carbon and Organic Matter Soils Data Set is one of the various sub-surface data sets developed for the GCIP (Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment [GEWEX] Continental-scale International Project) Enhanced Observation Period (EOP) Data Set. This data set contains a summary table of the measured organic carbon percentage and the estimated organic matter percentage in the near surface soil at each of the ARM SWATS (Soil Water and Temperature System) sites at the SGP site. The soil characterizations were performed by Oklahoma State University. Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: GeoData catalog record. File Name: Web Page, url: https://geodata.nal.usda.gov/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/SGP97armSoils_JJM_2015-04-23_1027

These data were compiled to demonstrate new predictive mapping approaches and provide comprehensive gridded 30-meter resolution soil property maps for the Colorado River Basin above Hoover Dam. Random forest models related environmental raster layers representing soil forming factors with field samples to render predictive maps that interpolate between sample locations. Maps represented soil pH, texture fractions (sand, silt clay, fine sand, very fine sand), rock, electrical conductivity (ec), gypsum, CaCO3, sodium adsorption ratio (sar), available water capacity (awc), bulk density (dbovendry), erodibility (kwfact), and organic matter (om) at 7 depths (0, 5, 15, 30, 60, 100, and 200 cm) as well as depth to restrictive layer (resdept) and surface rock size and cover. Accuracy and error estimated using a 10-fold cross validation indicated a range of model performances with coefficient of variation (R2) for models ranging from 0.20 to 0.76 with mean of 0.52 and a standard deviation of 0.12. Models of pH, om and ec had the best accuracy (R2 > 0.6). Most texture fractions, CaCO3, and SAR models had R2 values from 0.5-0.6. Models of kwfact, dbovendry, resdept, rock models, gypsum and awc had R2 values from 0.4-0.5 excepting near surface models which tended to perform better. Very fine sands and 200 cm estimates for other models generally performed poorly (R2 from 0.2-0.4), and sample size for the 200 cm models was too low for reliable model building. More than 90% of the soils data used was sampled since 2000, but some older samples are included. Uncertainty estimates were also developed by creating relative prediction intervals, which allow end users to evaluate uncertainty easily.

Statistics illustrates consumption, production, prices, and trade of Other Organic Compounds in the World from Jan 2019 to Feb 2025.

In 2023, Australia was ranked first with an organic agricultural land area amounting to about 53 million hectares. The land area used for organic agriculture in Australia is thus larger than the acreage of all the other leading countries combined. Australia is followed by India and Argentina, which each had areas of organic agriculture of approximately 4.48 and 4.05 million hectares, respectively. Organic farming in the United States Among the different States in the United States, the State of California has the largest number of organic farms and ranches, with approximately 3,061. California is followed by the States of Wisconsin and New York, which have about 1.4 million hectares each. In terms of land ownership of organic acreage, over 2.1 million acres of certified organic land operated in the United States was rented from others. Organic food worldwide Worldwide sales of organic foods have experienced nearly constant growth during the last two decades. The United States has by far the largest share of global retail sales of organic food, with 39 percent. The sales value of organic food in the United States has more than quadrupled during the last 15 years. To classify as organic, specific farming standards have to be applied during food production. The global per capita consumption of organic food is highest in Denmark and Switzerland.

Statistics illustrates consumption, production, prices, and trade of Other Organic Compounds in Free Zones from 2007 to 2024.