Study: U.S. organic sales break through $50B mark in 2018
Nearly 5.7% of the food sold in this country is now organic.
Clean, transparent, fresh, sustainable. Environmentally friendly, animal humane, high quality, social activism. Those traits are all identified with organic, and in 2018, they all helped push organic sales to unprecedented levels. In fact, the U.S. organic market in 2018 broke through the $50 billion mark for the first time, with sales hitting a record $52.5 billion, up 6.3% from the previous year, according to the “2019 Organic Industry Survey” released by the Organic Trade Association (OTA), Washington, D.C.
New records were made in both the organic food market and the organic non-food market. Organic food sales reached $47.9 billion, for an increase of 5.9%. Sales of organic non-food products jumped by 10.6% to $4.6 billion. The growth rate for organic continued to easily outpace the general market. In 2018, total food sales in the United States edged up just 2.3%, while total non-food sales rose 3.7%.