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From the
Vegetarian Resource Group
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Old estimates without the same sources for population
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YearNumber PolledVeganVegetarianVeg•nNon-institutionalized Adult U.S. PopVeganVegetarianVeg•nMethodNotesQuestionMore NotesVeg•nsVegetariansVegansUS PopulationNon-Instnlzd Adult U.S. Pop
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19941,9780.081%0.569%0.65%189,995,850154,3721,080,6011,234,973face to faceVRG: 0.3% to 1.0% are vegetarians. 5% to 20% of vegetarians are vegan. "negligible to 700,000 vegans", "up to half a million vegans"Please call off the items on this list, if any, that you never eat. Meat. Poultry. Fish/Seafood. Dairy Products. Eggs. Honey. Eat Them All. Don't Know.1,250,000900,000350,000263,130,000186,542,006
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19971,9600.417%0.584%1%196,095,943816,7401,144,2201,960,959VRG: 1% of population is veg•n. "One-third to one-half of 2 million vegtarians may be vegan." (.333+.5)/2*2000000 Please call off the items on this list, if any, that you never eat: Meat (beef, pork, veal, lamb, etc.). Poultry. Fish/Seafood. Dairy Products. Eggs. Honey. Eat Them All. Don't Know.2,000,0001,167,000833,000273,650,000194,000,000
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20009680.9%1.6%2.5%205,212,7781,846,9153,283,4045,130,319telephonePeople had to avoid honey to be considered vegan by VRG.Please tell me which of the following foods, if any, you never eat? Meat, Poultry, Fish/Seafood, Dairy Products, Eggs, Honey.4,825,0003,088,0001,737,000282,160,000193,000,000
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20031,0311.8%1.0%2.8%213,506,1643,843,1112,135,0625,978,173telephonePlease tell me which of the following foods, if any, you NEVER EAT: Meat, Poultry, Fish/Seafood, Dairy Products, Eggs, Honey.5,740,0002,050,0003,690,000290,110,000205,000,000
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20061,0001.4%0.9%2.3%220,888,2523,092,4361,987,9945,080,430telephonePlease tell me which of the following foods, if any, you never eat? Meat, Poultry, Fish/Seafood, Dairy Products, Eggs, Honey. Answering "yes" to Honey didn't exclude someone from being vegans.VRG removed honey from vegan stat4,849,4081,897,5942,951,813298,380,000210,843,818
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20092,3971.3%2.1%3.4%227,632,2382,959,2194,780,2777,739,496onlineIncludes vegans who eat honey.Which of the following foods, if any, do you never eat? Please select all that apply. I never eat…: Meat, Poultry, Fish/Seafood, Dairy Products, Eggs, Honey. I sometimes eat all of these foods. Don't know.honey back in7,000,0004,832,2762,167,724306,770,000216,772,431
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20111,0102.5%2.5%5%231,317,0075,782,9255,782,92511,565,850telephone2% were female vegans and 3% were male vegans. Says 2% were female non-vegan vegetarians and 2% were male non-vegan vegetarians. We suspect the rounding produced more vegans than non-vegan vegetarians so we used the percentage of vegans rather than the percentage of non-vegan vegetarians.I never eat meat, fish, seafood, poultry, dairy, or eggs.honey removed11,011,3925,505,6965,505,696311,660,000220,227,845
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20122,0301%3%4%243,284,0002,432,8407,298,5209,731,360telephoneYou never eat meat, fish, seafood, poultry, dairy, or eggs.9,000,0007,000,0002,000,000314,000,000230,000,000
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20152,0170.5%2.9%3.4%242,112,5991,234,7746,997,0548,231,828online"Close to 15% of vegetarians were vegan"I never eat meat, fish, seafood, poultry, dairy, or eggs."Polls can’t really be compared,..."8,160,0007,160,0001,000,000320,900,000240,000,000
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20162,0151.5%1.8%3.3%244,754,7823,735,5704,341,3388,076,908onlineThe poll says 3.7 million U.S. adults are expected to be vegan and 4.3 million U.S. adults are expected to be vegetarian but not vegan. Thus, 0.4625% of veg•ns were expected to have been vegan.I never eat meat, fish, seafood, poultry, dairy, or eggs.8,000,0004,300,0003,700,000323,130,000245,000,000
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2019.22,0312%9%11%250,196,5025,003,93022,517,68527,521,615Answers for non-vegan vegetarians were elaborate and confusing: "Based on our experience we doubt the 11% figure is an accurate representation of vegetarians and suspect that it is likely due to the different phrasing of the question."I never eat meat, fish, seafood, poultry, dairy, or eggs.
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2019.62,0272%2%4%250,196,5025,003,9305,003,93010,007,860onlineI never eat meat, fish, seafood, poultry, dairy, or eggs.10,160,0005,080,0005,080,000329,000,000254,000,000
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20202,0743%3%6%251,310,5247,539,3167,539,31615,078,631onlineI never eat meat, fish, seafood, poultry, dairy, or eggs.15,240,0007,620,0007,620,000335,942,003254,000,000
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20222,8893%3%6%254,828,2877,644,8497,644,84915,289,697onlineI never eat meat, fish, seafood, poultry, dairy, or eggs15,480,0007,730,0007,750,000338,299,857258,000,000
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2025.22,7691.48%2.42%3.90%261,777,8843,874,3136,335,02510,209,337onlineObtained additional numbers from VRG than what was published in the poll.I currently don’t eat meat, fish, poultry, seafood, dairy, or eggs. -or- I currently don’t use meat, fish, poultry, seafood, dairy, eggs, or other animal products such as leather.10,641,0336,602,8974,038,136272,847,000
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2025.62,1991%1.8%2.8%261,777,8842,617,7794,633,4697,251,247onlineI never eat meat, fish, seafood, poultry, dairy, or eggs7,578,3054,842,4552,735,850273,585,000
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Footnotes:
We used the number of decimal points reported by VRG up to a maximum of 3. Where we made calculations, we used the maximum number of decimals provided by VRG up to 3.
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