Devondale Murray Goulburn, Australia’s largest dairy foods company. co-operative is 100% controlled by Australian dairy farmers.
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Saturday 5 September 2015
The World Co-operative Monitor, the leading report on the co-operative economy
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Facts and figures
Co-operative enterprises worldwide employ 250 million people, and generate 2.2 trillion USD in turnover while providing the services and infrastructure society needs to thrive.
As member-owned, member-run and member-serving businesses, co-operatives empower people to collectively realize their economic aspirations, while strengthening their social and human capital and developing their communities.
Co-operatives contribute to sustainable economic growth and stable, quality employment, employing 250 million (indirect and induced employment not included). Within the G20 countries, co-operative employment makes up almost 12 % of the total employed population.
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The World Co-operative Monitor, the leading report on the co-operative economy
The International Co-operative Alliance, with the scientific and technical support of the European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (Euricse) – publishes an anual report on the co-operative economy – The World Co-operative Monitor.
The third (2014) edition of the World Co-operative Monitor reveals that the turnover of the largest 300 co-operatives in the report over the last 3 years has grown by 11.6% to reach 2.2 trillion USD (2205.7 billion USD) in 2012. 165 Billion USD in this figure is generated by the co-operative banking and financial services sector (net banking income) and 1,156.5 billion USD from the insurance and mutual sector (premium income).
- You can find and download the World Co-operative Monitor at www.monitor.coop
- Adding your co-operative’s data to the 2015 edition of the Monitor takes less than 20 minutes. Visit the Monitor's questionnaire page.
Explore more co-operative facts and figures below. They demonstrate the relevance and contribution to economic and social development of co-operative enterprise.
Co-operatives create and maintain employment
Presented for the first time at the 2014 Summit of Co-operatives, the study “Co-operatives and Employment: a global report” carried out by CICOPA, the Alliance's sector for industrial and service co-operatives, discusses the significance of co-operative employment globally, both quantitatively and qualitatively. It shows how co-operatives contribute to resilient employment, a sustainable economy and the well-being of people at work, making up almost 12% of the entire employed population of the G20 countries. Co-operative enterprises generate partial or full-time employment involving at least 250 million individuals worldwide, either in or within the scope of co-operatives.
- In France, 21,000 co-operatives provide over 1 million jobs representing 3.5% of the active working population. Source: Coop FR, Top 100 des Entreprises Coopératives et panorama sectoriel, 2010.
- In Kenya, 50% of the population derive their livelihoods from co-operatives. Approximately 250,000 Kenyans are employed or gain most of their income from co-operatives. Source: ILO, 2009.
- In Colombia, the co-operative movement provides 137,888 jobs through direct employment and an additional 559,118 jobs as worker-owners in workers co-operatives - providing 3.65% of all jobs in the country. Source: CONFECOOP.
- In Indonesia, co-operatives provide jobs to 288,589 individuals. Source: Ministry of Co-operative & SMEs, Indonesia, 2004.
- In the United States, 30,000 co-operatives provide more than 2 million jobs. Source:National Co-operative Business Association.
Co-operatives are significant economic factors in national economies
Presented at the 2014 International Co-operative Summit, the third edition of the World Co-operative Monitor revealed that the turnover of the largest 300 co-operatives has grown by 11.6% to reach 2.2 trillion USD in 2012, equivalent to the GDP of Brazil. The overall turnover of the near 2,000 co-operatives in the 65 countries surveyed by the Monitor totals 2.6 trillion USD (Read the press release).
- In Denmark, consumer co-operatives in 2007 held 36.4% of consumer retail market.Source: Coop Norden AB Annual Report 2007.
- In Japan, the agricultural co-operatives report outputs of USD 90 billion with 91% of all Japanese farmers in membership. In 2007 consumer co-operatives reported a total turnover of USD 34.048 billion with 5.9% of the food market share. Source: Co-op 2007 Facts & Figures, Japanese Consumers' Co-operative Union.
- In Mauritius, in the agricultural sector, co-operators play an important role in the production of sugar, vegetable, fruit and flower, milk, meat and fish. Nearly 50% of sugar-cane planters are grouped in co-operatives. Source: Ministry of Industry, Small & Medium Enterprises, Commerce & Cooperatives.
- In The Ivory Coast, co-operatives invested USD 26 million into setting up schools, building rural roads and establishing maternal clinics in 2002. Source: ICA, Briefing for NGOs on the Work of the Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health Cluster, 2004.
- In New Zealand, 3% of the gross domestic product (GDP) is generated by co-operative enterprise. Co- operatives are responsible for 95% of the dairy market and 95% of the export dairy market. Source: New Zealand Co-operative Association, 2007.
- In Uruguay, co-operatives are responsible for 3% of the GDP. They produce 90% of the total milk production, 340% of honey and 30% of wheat. 60% of co-operative production is exported to over 40 countries around the world. Source: ACI Americas. Uruguay: movimiento cooperativo en crecimiento.
Large segments of the population are members of co-operatives
- In Canada, four of every ten Canadians are members of at least one co-operative. In Quebec, approximately 70% of the population are co-op members, while in Saskatchewan 56% are members. Source: Co-operative Secretariat, Government of Canada.
- In Malaysia, 6.78 million people or 27% of the total population are members of co-operatives. Source: Ministry of Entrepreneur and Co-operative Development, Department of Co-operative Development, Malaysia, Statistics 31 December 2009.
- In Norway out of a population of 4.8 million people, 2 million are members of co-operatives. Source: The Co-operative Centre of Norway.
- In Paraguay, 783,000 people or 18% of the population are members of 1,047 co-operatives. These have a direct impact on the livlihoods of over 6 million people.Source: Instituto Nacional de Cooperativismo, INCOOP.
- In Spain, in 2008 15% of the population or 6.7 million people are members of a co-operative. Source: CIRIEC, Las grandes cifras de la economía social.
The International Co-operative Alliance
The International Co-operative Alliance represents close to one billion individual members. These statistics are calculated from the Alliance's member subscription formula. On this basis, the Alliance as the global representative body for co-operatives is one of the largest non-governmental organisations in the world today by the number of people it represents, according to available figures.
- The country with the largest number of individual members indirectly represented by the Alliance is the United States with 256 million members. There are nearly 30,000 co-operatives in the US.
- The next countries are in Asia, with India following next behind the US with 93.7 million individual members. And then Japan with 77 million individual members.
- The fourth largest number of members is in Iran with 36.9 million individual members.
- All in all, five of the top ten countries, by membership, that the Alliance represents - are in Asia.
- Italy is the Alliance's first European country with 22.5 million individual co-operative members, represented by the Alliance and through their organisations.
challenges and opportunities for co-operatives towards 2020
Bestseller author and activist Raj Patel on challenges and opportunities for co-operatives towards 2020
1 AUG 2015
“If the idea of a co-operative movement is to mean anything, then surely it is to make the world better than it was before,” says Raj Patel, author, academic and activist. “That means thinking seriously about how we can contribute to a better world.”
Mr Patel believes strongly in the transformative power of co-operatives in imagining – and implementing – change, and will be delivering a keynote speech at the International Co-operative Alliance’s Global Conference on ‘The Value of Nothing: Reclaiming Markets through Democracy’.
“The idea of the co-operative movement is to inject democracy into transactions and market relations,” he says. “The origins of modern co-operatives – the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers – was that people couldn’t afford to eat. Their response was to organise and mobilise capital to be able to make it possible for them to access food, and to organise that access around the principles of democracy.”
However, he thinks the power to set an economic agenda has been taken out of the hands of co-operatives by a combination of monetary and fiscal policy, and by trade policy trumping environment and employment law. “I do see the co-op movement having an important role in restoring some of those rights,” he adds, “not just bringing it back to the status quo, but moving forward from the status quo.”
It is this way of thinking that means co-operatives have something to offer Greece in light of the current financial crisis, he says, “not just in terms of surviving, but in terms of a Greece that can thrive [...] but that means imagining a very different economic environment.
“Our imaginations about how different the world can be have been severely constricted, particularly by debt and the current arrangements of consumerism and economic relationships.” But he believes the ability to imagine something radically different is in the DNA of the co-operative movement. “That radical DNA has really been suppressed, and now’s a good time for it to come out, particularly as we think about the future of the planet.”
One of Mr Patel’s current projects is Generation Food, in collaboration with award-winning documentary maker and director Steve James. “We are looking at experiments to feed the world in the future,” he says. “The idea of Generation Food is to show that a radically different world isn’t just possible, but that people are doing it right now.” They are doing this, he says, by challenging some of the “deeper rules” that govern society.
One such rule is patriarchy. “If you’re interested in feeding the world, challenging patriarchy is a great idea. Look at how child malnutrition has been reduced in India over the past 40 years; 45% of that reduction comes from increased women’s education and empowerment. It works. But how do you do it? One of the experiments we have looked at is in Malawi where people are growing food differently and engaging with patriarchy. There’s a lot of feminist organising that’s happening in the villages and we’re looking at how that has contributed to the reduction in child malnutrition.”
Raj Patel, whose books include Stuffed and Starved (2008) and The Value of Nothing (2009), believes sustainable food production and the environment are going to be two of the biggest challenges the co-operative movement faces. “The geography of thinking about sustainability doesn’t necessarily match up with the geography of a firm,” he says. “I think co-ops are the vehicles through which we could imagine all stakeholders, from farm labourers to consumers, getting together and reimagining what the relationships between buyer and seller could look like.” But he acknowledges that would involve a comprehensive re-imagination of that relationship.
He adds: “It’s only in conversations in organisations that span the world that this transformation is possible. That’s why an international forum like the Global Conference later this year is going to be very exciting, it’s a space where we are able to broker an exchange of ideas.”
At the conference, Mr Patel will be presenting a project he has been working on with a colleague, Jason W Moore, on the idea of ‘The Seven Cheap Things that Capitalism Needs to Survive’ – and the role that co-ops have in challenging this.
“Imagining what the co-operative movement does for the folk outside the co-op movement is a frontier challenge,” he says. “What can we do? What can we change? Hopefully we’ll be able to offer some ways of thinking about these problems that will be useful to those throughout the movement.”
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