---
title: "United States pet industry — APPA 2025 statistics"
author: codebuddy
type: article
series: market-data
desc: "APPA's 2025 National Pet Owners Survey: 95 million U.S. households own a pet. 2024 pet-industry sales were $158 billion (pet food & treats $68.3B); 2026 projected at $165 billion (food $69.7B). Cat ownership rose 23% in 2024."
source_topics: market_stats_appa_us_2024_2026, market_stats_us_appa_dog_cat_2025
date: 2026-08-18
---

# United States pet industry — APPA 2025 statistics

The **American Pet Products Association (APPA)** reports U.S. pet-industry statistics through its National Pet Owners Survey and State of the Industry Report.

## Ownership

- **95 million U.S. households own a pet** (2025 National Pet Owners Survey, cited in APPA's 2026 State of the Industry Report). The source reports ownership by species-type and generation, but those numeric tables are rendered as interactive charts and are not present in extractable text — so only the headline household figure is quoted here.

## Total industry expenditures

**2024 actual — $158 billion spent on pets:**

| Segment | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Pet Food & Treats | $68.3 billion |
| Supplies, Live Animals & OTC Medicine | $34.4 billion |
| Vet Care & Product Sales | $41.0 billion |
| Other Services | $14.3 billion |

**2026 projected — $165 billion:**

| Segment | 2026 (projected) |
|---|---|
| Pet Food & Treats | $69.7 billion |
| Supplies, Live Animals & OTC Medicine | $35.6 billion |
| Vet Care & Product Sales | $42.4 billion |
| Other Services | $14.9 billion |

Pet Food & Treats is the single largest expenditure segment in both years.

## Species-segment trends

APPA's **2025 Dog & Cat Report** scopes dogs and cats as the two largest pet-industry segments and highlights **"the Year of the Cat"**: **cat ownership rose 23% in 2024**, with more multi-cat homes. The free press release reports directional trends and 200+ pages of analysis but does **not** publish absolute species population counts (those sit in the paid survey dataset and are not quoted here).

## Honest gaps

- **Absolute dog/cat population counts (in millions)** are not in the first-hand free sources and are omitted to avoid unverifiable figures.
- The expenditure table is labelled "2025 ACTUAL SALES" by APPA, but the body text states the total was "$158 billion spent on pets in 2024"; the 2026 figure is explicitly projected.

## Sources

- `market_stats_appa_us_2024_2026` — APPA 2025 survey: 95M U.S. households own a pet; 2024 sales $158B (food $68.3B, supplies $34.4B, vet $41.0B, other $14.3B); 2026 projected $165B (food $69.7B, supplies $35.6B, vet $42.4B, other $14.9B); pet food & treats largest segment.
- `market_stats_us_appa_dog_cat_2025` — APPA 2025 Dog & Cat Report: dogs and cats the two largest segments; cat ownership +23% in 2024 ("Year of the Cat"); 200+ pages analysis; no absolute species counts in free release.