Trends in Animal Use

The CCAC has been publishing national surveys of animal use in research, teaching and testing since 1975. Trends in animal use throughout the years can be found here. It is important to note, however, that data published before 1996 was not collected with the same methodology and that categories of animals are somewhat different from the ones currently used. Therefore, data prior to 1996 should be used as a guide only. Furthermore, in 1996 and 1997, not all animals could be categorized by the purpose of their use. This is why graphs and tables showing the purpose of animal use do not contain information for those years.

Table VII: Number of animals used by participants in the CCAC programs from 1975 to 2009
Figure 1: Animal use by participants in the CCAC programs in general and for the three most used categories of animals from 1975 to 2009
Figure 2: Number of cats, dogs and nonhuman primates used by participants in the CCAC programs from 1975 to 2009
Figure 3: Number of cats used by participants in the CCAC programs from 1975 to 2009
Figure 4: Number of dogs used by participants in the CCAC programs from 1975 to 2009
Figure 5: Number of animals used in research, testing and teaching by participants in the CCAC programs from 1985 to 2009
Figure 6: Number of animals used from 1996 to 2009 by participants in the CCAC programs according to the category of invasiveness (CI)
Figure 7: Number of animals used from 1998 to 2009 by participants in the CCAC programs according to the purpose of animal use (PAU)