Management Systems Continue to Grow Worldwide

Management Systems Continue to Grow Worldwide

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Valid certificates covered by eleven international standards increased by 8% from the preceding year according to the annual survey of ISO Certifications conducted by the International Organization for Standardization. They were a total of 1,644,357 valid certificates were reported for the eleven standards used in the survey.

The eleven standards include: ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 50001, ISO 27001, ISO 22000, IS/TS 16949, ISO 13485, ISO 22301, ISO 20000-1, ISO 28000 and ISO 39001.



ISO 9001, the most widely used standard of the eleven had 1,106,356 valid certificates in place. This was an increase of 7% compared to the year before. According to the survey, 7.3% of the certificates were issued top the new 2015 version.

A total of 346,189 valid certificates were reported in the survey for ISO 14001 of which 6.7% were issued to the new 2015 standard.

The greatest increase was with ISO 50001, Energy Management, which saw an increase of 69% over the past year. A total of 20,216 valid certificates were issued throughout the world. The top five countries were: Germany, France, UK, Italy and China. Germany had 6874 valid certificates while the United States 180, Mexico 11 and Canada 12.

Another large increase was ISO 20000-1 for Service Management in information technology that increase by 63% over the past year (2016 over 2015). A total of 4,537 valid certificates were issued throughout the world. The top five countries were: China, India, Japan, UK and Spain. China had 1666 valid certificates while the United States 175, Mexico 98 and Canada 4.

ISO/IEC 27001 experienced annual growth of twenty percent compared to the same period the prior year. A total of 33,310 valid certificates were reported worldwide. Top countries were: Japan (8945), UK, India, China and Germany. United states had 1115 valid certificates while Canada had 133 and Mexico 260.



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