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16 2019 INDUSTRY RESOURCE DIRECTORY English-Speaking North America All Others 1.5 Million 2.1 Million Single-Cabin Portable Toilets in Service Globally 3.6 Million Total The PSAI provides a report on the size and scope of the portable sanitation industry annually. Our numbers are estimates only. There is no international mechanism for gathering and reporting business data, and nearly all portable restroom companies are privately held. Hence, the nature of our industry makes it difficult to gather detailed data from businesses that have varying reasons for not disclosing it. Though there are few sources of verifiable data—and even data that have been published is often based on assumptions and extrapolations—we can get a general picture of the health of our industry by looking at multiple sources. Several of these sources group portable sanitation with complementary industries such as "septic tank and related services," and parsing this information requires further inferences. Nevertheless, by consulting and comparing the data available, trends and indicators of our industry's current condition emerge. We can also provide a forecast for the next few years since data for most of the industry drivers are available. 1 The portable sanitation industry represents a small but vital group of businesses around the world. A variety of sources estimates there are about 3.6 million portable restrooms in service around the world, with English-speaking North America representing between 2.0 million and 2.2 million of that total. INDUSTRY DATA 1 The information in this article is derived by reviewing a variety of sources and comparing it with internal PSAI data to provide the estimates shown here. Sources include, but are not limited to, US Bureau of the Census data from 2012–2017 (the latest available) for firms categorized under NAICS codes 562991 (septic tank and related services) and 5629912 (portable toilet rental; a subset of 562991); IBISWorld's October 2018 report on Portable Toilet Rental, as well as its November 2018 report on Portable Toilet Rental and Septic Tank Cleaning in the United States; Pell Research/AnythingResearch 2019 Report on Septic Tank Services (which includes the portable sanitation submarket); Fior Market Research on the global portable toilet rental market for 2018–2022; The Organisation for Economic Cooperation (OECD) report on the economic outlook for 2019 and 2020; The Conference Board Economic Forecast for the US Economy 2019–2020; Construction Analytic's 2019 Construction Economic Forecast; and information from PSAI Members. Better worksites. Better weekends. Better world. EXCLUSIVE MEMBERS-ONLY CONTENT REDACTED Join us now at www.psai.org for access to this valuable information.