Hunting Statistics

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Statistic Verification

Source: Hunting Business Marketing, From the Lodge

Date Verified: 3.20.2012

Hunting is the practice of pursuing, killing or trapping any living organism, usually wildlife or feral animals, by humans for food, recreation, or trade. Animals may also hunt other animal species, but this is usually called predation. In present-day use, lawful hunting is distinguished from poaching, which is the killing, trapping or capture of the hunted species contrary to applicable law. The species that are hunted are referred to as game and are usually mammals and migratory or non-migratory gamebirds. Hunting has a long history and may well pre-date the rise of the species Homo sapiens. While our earliest Hominid ancestors were probably frugivores or omnivores, there is evidence that earlier Homo species, and possibly also australopithecine species, utilised larger animals for subsistence.

Hunting Statistics
Total number of people over the age of 16 that hunt annually	12.5 million
Total number of days spent hunting by U.S. population	220 million
Total number of hunting trips spent by U.S. population	185 million trips
Total amount of money spent on all hunting expenditures annually	$22.9 billion
Number of hunters that pursue big game annually	10.7 million
Total number of people that hunt migratory birds annually	2.3 million
Total amount of people that hunted other animals (woodchucks, raccoons, ect.)	1.1 million
Total number of jobs created by the hunting industry	1 million
Total average amount of money spent hunting by each hunter annually	$2000
Total percentage of male hunters	91%
Total percentage of hunters between age 35-44	25%
Total amount of search result websites on google for results on "hunting"	16 million
Total searches for "Huting" (top misspelled keyword) each month	18,100
Total number of gun licenses sold for 2010 season	621,094
Total percentage of the U.S. that hunts	7%
Total percent of wildlife areas in the U.S. you can hunt	60%

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