The International Standardization Organization (ISO) published the results of the annual survey of the number of valid certificates to ISO management system standards worldwide. The providers of data are accredited certification bodies.

Overall figures 2022

The table below displays the total number of valid certificates and the total number of sites for each standard covered by the survey. A certificate is the document issued by a certification body once the client has demonstrated conformity to the standard and a “site” is a permanent location where an organization carries out work or provides a service.

Results highlights

• The level of participation of certification bodies has been good and consistent with the previous edition of the Survey.
• All the main standards covered by the ISO Survey experienced growth of the number of certificates, driven by the increase reported for China. For indication on the annual variations, a comparison table on the number of certificates provided by the data providers that took part in both 2021 and 2022 ISO Surveys is available next to the full results file.
• Like the previous editions of the survey, the results show some fluctuations at the country level that are explained by factors related to the participation.
  • For example, for ISO 9001, Russia, Japan, Germany, Portugal, Greece show a decrease that is mainly due to non-participation of certification bodies that took part in the previous Survey.
  • On the contrary, Australia, India, Korea, USA, Saudi Arabia and UAE show growth for the number of certificates for ISO 9001.

Full results and comparison table

The detailed results for each standard are available on https://www.iso.org/the-iso-survey.html. For each of the standard, the number of certificates and the number of sites are displayed next to each other to give a more comprehensive picture of the situation.

In addition to the full results, a comparison table is available based only on the data provided by the participants to the 2022 and 2021 ISO Surveys that submitted data in both editions, showing the number of certificates for ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 45001 and their variation. This is provided considering that those standards show an important growth due, to a substantial degree, to the increase in the level of participation in this year’s survey (see below “Results highlights”). By taking only the data from the participants to both ISO Surveys, the comparison table gives some indication of the range of the variation that is related to the data reported by the data providers.