Statistics
Statistics on kosher are compiled regularly by LUBICOM from surveys of manufacturers, distributors, stores and other industry studies such as Mintel and Cannondale as well as other data reported to LUBICOM.
*The Kosher Food Market 2006
Compiled by LUBICOM Marketing Consulting, LLC
- 10,500,000 - Number of Kosher Consumers in the US
- 21% - Percentage of Americans who buy kosher products because they are kosher
Why Americans Buy Kosher:
2005 New Data**
- 55% - health and safety
- 38% - vegetarians
- 16% - eat halal
2003 Data*
- 35% - taste or flavor
- 16% - guidelines that they were produced
- 8% - good products
- 5% - better and healthier
- 8% - keep kosher all the time
- 8% - looking for vegetarian products, either for religious or dietary reasons.
- 1,100,000 - Number of year Round Kosher Jewish Consumers
- 3,000,000 - Total Number of Muslims and Other Religions
- 6,400,000 - Kosher is Better
- $11,500,000,000 – Dollar Value of Market
- $225,000,000,000 – Dollar Value of Kosher Produced Goods – USA
- $325,000,000,000 – Dollar Value of Kosher Ingredients Sold in USA
- 15% - % Annual Growth (2005)
- 100,000 – Number of Kosher Certified Products
- 2,500 – Number of Products Certified in 2006
- 17,000 – Average Number of Kosher Products in US Supermarkets
- 10,650 – Number of Kosher Producing Companies and plants
- 40% - % of Annual Kosher for Passover Sales
- 5,200,000 – American Jewish Population
- 78% - American Jews Observing Passover
Sources: Mintel Report (**March 2003, *May 2005), Jewish Population Study, United Jewish Communities (September 2003), LUBICOM Kosher Analysis (October 2005)
***Some studies like the American Jewish Yearbook by the American Jewish Committee put the number of Jews in the U.S. at more than 6 million.
*Updated March 2007
