In the USA, the Department of Agriculture takes, every five years, a census about agriculture and breeding.
The latest census was taken in 2002. Its data are not known, so far.
It is very difficult to collect data about turtle breeding and export.
The data shown below are provided by the Reptile Protection Trust (see "Links" in the menu on the left) and refer to the exportation of Trachemys scripta elegans in 1994-1997.
They will be updated as soon as the US Fish and Wildlife Service provides more recent data.
|
Nation
|
1994
|
1995
|
1996
|
1997
|
|
Total
|
7,607,362
|
7,632,072
|
7,884,634
|
7,852,050
|
|
Albania
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
1000
|
|
Argentina
|
-
|
100
|
-
|
-
|
|
Australia
|
548
|
-
|
24
|
24
|
|
Austria
|
1000
|
4900
|
303
|
150
|
|
Barbados
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
6000
|
|
Belgium
|
125000
|
100503
|
130500
|
354500
|
|
Bermuda
|
3500
|
1500
|
-
|
-
|
|
Brazil
|
-
|
22811
|
100
|
7850
|
|
Canada
|
110838
|
95733
|
94709
|
17002
|
|
Chile
|
-
|
1000
|
6000
|
8000
|
|
China
|
10000
|
-
|
10000
|
1832400
|
|
Congo
|
-
|
10000
|
-
|
-
|
|
Costa Rica
|
9100
|
8400
|
4000
|
6000
|
|
Cyprus
|
9000
|
10000
|
8000
|
5000
|
|
Czech Rep.
|
24000
|
10390
|
44000
|
58675
|
|
Denmark
|
10560
|
7380
|
18050
|
12680
|
|
Dominican Republic
|
11850
|
6175
|
5000
|
5500
|
|
Egypt
|
-
|
13000
|
-
|
-
|
|
Fed Republic Germany
|
2069
|
4376
|
2358
|
36142
|
|
Finland
|
3100
|
3000
|
2000
|
-
|
|
France
|
170860
|
165780
|
178280
|
105100
|
|
French Polynesia
|
-
|
300
|
500
|
-
|
|
Great Britain
|
20310
|
18247
|
10545
|
7239
|
|
Greece
|
40200
|
54000
|
35000
|
61000
|
|
Guyana
|
-
|
-
|
100
|
-
|
|
Honduras
|
200
|
2050
|
1000
|
1500
|
|
Hong Kong1
|
2028840
|
1621986
|
1878152
|
1319105
|
|
Hungary
|
38200
|
48000
|
30300
|
24500
|
|
Indonesia
|
-
|
31011
|
35500
|
42000
|
|
Ireland
|
5000
|
6000
|
10000
|
8000
|
|
Israel
|
52
|
-
|
6
|
-
|
|
Italy
|
848070
|
654267
|
675302
|
2055502
|
|
Ivory Coast
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
30000
|
|
Japan
|
707662
|
825269
|
751819
|
877429
|
|
Kenya
|
30000
|
-
|
150775
|
30000
|
|
Korea1
|
1638914
|
2200931
|
1798396
|
984288
|
|
Dem Rep of Korea
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
20651
|
|
Malaysia
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
15000
|
|
Malta
|
-
|
-
|
27500
|
-
|
|
Mexico
|
404150
|
183000
|
191200
|
239595
|
|
Netherlands
|
111350
|
77630
|
82810
|
54323
|
|
Netherland Antilles
|
-
|
3850
|
2500
|
-
|
|
Nicaragua
|
39
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
Pacific Islands
|
-
|
7
|
-
|
-
|
|
Paraguay
|
-
|
4500
|
24280
|
73585
|
|
Peru
|
-
|
3000
|
-
|
-
|
|
Philippines
|
-
|
2
|
-
|
-
|
|
Poland
|
134850
|
75000
|
119332
|
119000
|
|
Portugal
|
112200
|
197441
|
242980
|
85000
|
|
Saint Lucia
|
-
|
106
|
-
|
-
|
|
Sierra Leone
|
-
|
-
|
2000
|
-
|
|
Singapore1
|
512950
|
547766
|
589851
|
499400
|
|
Spain
|
445350
|
557976
|
630212
|
525500
|
|
Sweden
|
-
|
250
|
-
|
-
|
|
Switzerland
|
2000
|
300
|
5000
|
60
|
|
Taiwan
|
30000
|
15000
|
27200
|
110000
|
|
ex-USSR
|
-
|
22000
|
43050
|
45300
|
|
Various
|
-
|
500
|
-
|
-
|
|
Yugoslavia
|
3000
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
Unknown
|
2600
|
16635
|
16000
|
18002
|
1 Above all, as food.
2 This number was put down by the ban on the importation of Trachemys scripta elegans. The ban was deceived, in the next years, by the importation of Trachemys scripta scripta subspecies.
