AKC PARENT CLUB REGISTRATION STATS 2022 email
Attached please find the latest version of the Parent Club Registration Stats for your breed, your group(s), and all AKC breeds. This latest version includes everything we shared mid-year 2022 updated to include all of 2022 data.
Once again we are including Parent Club Membership data relating to breeder and litter counts. This data, from 2016 through 2022, gives a general picture of the breeding activity of Parent Club members relative to the overall breeding activity within the breed. **NOTE: This data is only as accurate as the membership lists submitted by each Parent Club through the web-based Club Membership Upload Tool and our ability to use email addresses to match members to litters. To ensure accurate information for this and similar projects please make sure your membership data is current. If your club submits household data (not individuals) please note we are counting a household as a member.
As with previous distributions of the Parent Club Registration Stats data, please feel free to share the attached information with your club membership as you see fit in order to stimulate discussion about registration and possible changes or improvement initiatives per the original rationale for sharing (below).
Original rationale for this data sharing this information (from email dated 11/07/2017):
Although registration numbers have been on the rise now for a number of years after nearly two decades of continuous decline, some breeds are not rebounding as well as others. The Board and staff have discussed this matter, and we are reaching out to each Parent Club to determine how AKC registration processes and procedures can be improved to better support breeders and to explore how AKC could further assist Parent Clubs in their mission to develop and steward their breeds. Additionally, the Board has asked that certain registration information be shared with each Parent Club in order to provide a statistical snapshot of the current state of each breed and to stimulate discussion within and between clubs and staff regarding possible improvement initiatives.
Important Notes:
As noted in the previous distributions of this information, the attached includes the counts of litters, litter complement, and dogs registered for each year since 2010. The reports also include the counts of unique dogs and bitches that were bred or that participated in a sport. Those counts are finite and will change only minimally over time and generally only due to cancellations of litters, dogs and/or awards. However, the reports also contain numbers that are “To Date”which will often change each time we produce these statistics (see definition below).
Complement: This is the count of pups from each AKC litter.
To Date: There are a number of rows that indicate “to date,” such as “Total Complement in Conformation (to date).” All rows with “to date” information are refreshed every time we reprocess this report. This is so you will have an accurate picture of the puppies produced in any given year. For instance, of the 1,337,737 puppies produced in AKC Litters in 2010 (a.k.a., the Litter Complement for 2010), 44,298 or 3.3% have thus far gone on to participate in conformation as of March 2023. Every time we update this chart, the system looks at all litters from 2010 to see if any additional dogs have started in conformation. Obviously, there will not be many 2010 pups entering Conformation or Breeding for the first time in 2022, but there will be many updates to the information known about pups born in more recent years.
Unique: “Unique” indicates the number of individual dogs participating in an activity such as breeding or exhibiting, counting each unique dog only once. For example, the same dog might have participated multiple times in a sport during a single year, but is only counted as one unique dog for that entire year.
Event Categories:
Below is a breakdown regarding which event types fall under each overall sport:
| Sport | Event Type |
| Conformation | Conformation |
| Companion | Agility |
| Companion | Obedience |
| Companion | Rally |
| Companion | Tracking |
| Performance | Coonhounds |
| Performance | Coursing Ability Test |
| Performance | Earthdog |
| Performance | Farm Dog Certification |
| Performance | Fast CAT |
| Performance | Field Trial |
| Performance | Herding |
| Performance | Hunting Test |
| Performance | Lure Coursing |
| Performance | Scent Work |
| Family Dog | AKC S.T.A.R. Puppy |
| Family Dog | Canine Good Citizen (CGC) |
| Family Dog | AKC Community Canine |
| Family Dog | AKC Urban CGC |
| Family Dog | AKC Trick Dog |
| Family Dog | CGC-Ready |
| Family Dog | AKC Therapy Dog |
| Family Dog | AKC FIT DOG |
| Family Dog | ATT Program |
| Family Dog | Virtual Home Manners |
| Title Recognition Program | Barn Hunt |
| Title Recognition Program | Dock Diving |
| Title Recognition Program | Parent Clubs & Working Dogs |
| Title Recognition Program | Flyball |
| Title Recognition Program | Search & Rescue |
| Title Recognition Program | Disc Dog |
“Competing In” vs “Placing In” : While we are able to accurately count unique dogs participating (i.e., entering) in Conformation and Companion events, we do not have complete entry data for all Performance events for the time period. Therefore, you will notice that for Performance Events we provide counts of uniques placing in performance.
Again, please feel free to share the attached information with your club membership as you see fit in order to stimulate discussion about registration, how AKC registration processes and procedures can be improved to better support breeders, and to explore how AKC could further assist Parent Clubs in their mission to develop and steward their breeds.
As always, please do not hesitate to reach out to us for additional information or to discuss your breed’s data and your thoughts on how we can improve.
Attached Documents for Review
Chinese Crested Parent Club Membership Stats 2022
Chinese Crested AKC Registration Stats Final 2022
Toy AKC Registration Stats Final 2022