Global State of Pet Care
Stats, Facts and Trends
Published in Sept 2022
Global Trends in the Pet Population
What you need to know
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How many people own a pet?
What health benefits do pets provide to people?
Pet ownership provides a range of therapeutic, physiological, psychological, and psychosocial benefits to owners.30https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0122085#sec005 These include:
Studies have also shown that these benefits remain even when adjusted for demographic, socioeconomic factors, education, medication use, etc.,32https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.119.005887 showing that the link between pet ownership and better health is persistent and strong. Healthy pets contribute to our health. That is the ‘One Health’ power of these pets.
Why do pets improve our health?
This is why the American Heart Association has stated that dog ownership “may have some causal role in reducing cardiovascular disease risk” and “may be reasonable for reduction in cardiovascular disease risk”.34https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0b013e31829201e1
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- 25https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-04/china-spends-29-billion-on-pampering-pets-as-birthrate-slows
- 26https://www.petfairasia.com/en/asia-markets/south-korea-pet-market/
- 27https://www.americanpetproducts.org/press_releasedetail.asp?id=1242
- 28https://bmcvetres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12917-020-02728-2
- 29Data from PetPoint https://www.petpoint.com/
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