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At the end of 2005, A2LA had 1,793 laboratories accredited in 48 states, Australia, Canada, Cayman Islands BWI, Chinese Taipei, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Republic of China, Qatar, Thailand, Trinidad & Tobago and the United Kingdom, an increase of 3.9% over 2004. During this same period, 94 accreditations were withdrawn. A 15-year growth rate is shown in Figure 1. A comparison of accredited laboratories in various fields of testing and calibration with previous years is shown in Table 2 below.

The number of entities enrolled has shown a net increase of 92 (1854 at the end of 2004; 1927 at the end of 2005). For the year, a total of 172 new applications for accreditation were received and 134 entities were in the process of becoming accredited at year's end.

 A2LA Growth

TABLE 2

 Field of Testing  A&V Bio Cal Chem CMT Ele Env Geo Mech NDT Ther Total
Dec. 31, 2005 21 70 453 235 70 189 40 36 652 19 8 1,793
Dec. 31, 2004 22 59 422 231 73 160 48 35 641 24 8 1,723
Dec. 31, 2003 22 44 379 216 74 157 50 34 646 23 6 1,651
Dec. 31, 2002 21 37 356 207 72 146 59 35 648 23 8 1,612
Dec. 31, 2001 23 35 292 211 83 124 72 34 669 19 11 1,573
Dec. 31, 2000 20 26 180 219 82 126 90 34 690 12 12 1,491
Dec. 31, 1999 17 23 91 212 80 102 93 35 667 16 12 1,348
Dec. 31, 1998 13 19 42 204 80 83 98 34 598 16 8 1,195
Dec. 31, 1997 11 7 12 185 75 63 122 32 457 15 8 987
Dec. 31, 1996 7 5 9 184 74 25 120 32 407 15 4 872
Dec. 31, 1995 6 5 6 158 61 22 113 27 356 17 3 774
Dec. 31, 1994 5 5 9 155 56 6 103 24 307 18 2 700
Dec. 31, 1993 5 4 6 138 51 10 76 22 265 14 2 593
Dec. 31, 1992 3 3 1 108 42 7 60 22 200 13 1 460
 
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