I would gratefully appreciate knowing the size of the US market for
syringes.  In particular, I would like to know:
1) The number of syringes sold in the US per year.  By this, I mean
numbers of units, not $ in sales.  Sales $ figures would be welcome as
well, but not in the absence of units figures.
2) A breakout of these unit numbers along target-use lines. 
Categories of particular interest would include: (a) insulin; (b)
vaccinations/immunizations; (c) flu shots; (d) other.  Further
breakouts in the "other" category woud be welcome, but not essential. 
Even a breakout of insulin vs. non-insulin would be a good start.

Between six and seven billion syringes are sold in the U.S. each year.


?Over 6.6 billion syringes are used each year in the United States,
about 1/4 of the estimated 24 billion unit consumption worldwide."
SOURCE: Investrend Communications, Inc. 
http://www.vanishpoint.com/9_24_2001.asp?section=inv


?It has been estimated that only a small percentage of the six to
seven billion syringes used every year in the United States are safety
needles.?
MDSI http://www.medicaldistribution.com/rep/Rep_1999_June/Rep_817009084398.htm


?Dr. Grabis believes they have a shot at capturing a 10% share of a
market that purchases 6 billion syringes a year at an average price of
40¢ (for intramuscular needles) to $1.50 (for intravenous needles).?
2003 North Bay Business Journal
http://www.busjrnl.com/story.html?story.id=3024


Diabetes - 3.6 billion

?Diabetics account for up to 3.6 billion syringes entering the waste
stream annually, according to American Diabetes Association
statistics.?
http://www.crackcreme.com/news071802.html
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2003/5/prweb66612.htm

 
?Nationally, at least 3 billion injections occur yearly outside of
health care settings. About 2 billion are administered by people with
diabetes and patients receiving home health care. And, approximately 1
billion are attributed to drug abusers injecting illicit drugs such as
heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine.?
State of California: Senator Liz Figueroa
http://democrats.sen.ca.gov/servlet/gov.ca.senate.democrats.pub.members.memDisplayPress?district=sd10&ID=2143


?Approximately one million syringes are used for intermittent
small-volume IV infusion each day in US healthcare - including
hospital and homecare use. In addition, large volumes of syringes are
used for chemotherapy and patient-controlled analgesia.?
PR Web 2003
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2003/6/prwebxml70099.php


The conventional U.S. syringe market is broken down as follows:
Hospital 29% 
Diabetic 25% 
Family Practices 16% 
Psychiatric 4% 
Nuclear 1% 
Other 25% 

Business Plans
http://www.businessplans.org/Zif/zif02.html



?Estimates of current, global annual syringe sales are US$5 billion
(30 billion units), including US$1.24 billion in the United States and
US$103 million (800 million units) in Australia.

Unitract is focusing predominantly on the safety, insulin and
hypodermic components of the syringe market, which represents
approximately 93% of total unit volumes in Australia and the US. Of
this targeted market, approximately 57% are insulin syringes, 28%
safety syringes and 15% hypodermics. Safety syringes are expected to
grow to about half the market by 2006, largely resulting from
governments implementing safety syringe technology legislation.?
Penrith Valley Economic Development Corporation 
http://www.pvedc.com.au/cgi-bin/articles/display.pl?article_id=279


OMI boosted by US syringe deal
By Michael Evans
June 1, 2004 

?OMI's joint managing director, Keith Taske, estimated the initial
potential market for safety syringes was around 750 million in a US
market of 3 billion syringes per year. He would not provide estimated
earnings from sales.?
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/31/1085855498628.html?from=storylhs&oneclick=true


?It has been estimated that 6.9 billion syringes will be purchased in
2003 by United States healthcare facilities (Frost & Sullivan, 1998).
In a recent report, Merrill Lynch analysts cited Becton Dickinson's
estimate that safety syringes will account for over 90 percent of the
market within five years, up from an estimated 10 percent in 1998.?
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:QLd6lCxRXU8J:www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m4PRN/1999_May_11/54609401/p1/article.jhtml+%22+billion+syringes%22&hl=en


?The annual market size for syringes is generally calculated at 10
times a country's population. For example, in the US, a 1% market
share could exceed 100 million syringes.?

?Becton-Dickinson, America's leading syringe producer, supplies 70% of
the syringe market: $2.0 billion annual figure is generally agreed
upon for the total US market. for all types of sharps.?
http://www.ishitech.co.il/jul01ar2.htm


Here is a link to a previous question regarding sales $ figures for
syringes and needles.
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=122079


Search criteria:
"Syringe sales" million OR billion
U.S. syringe market
" billion syringes" 
"Million syringes" "are used for"
Syringe market breakdown

I hope you find this information helpful!

Best regards,
Bobbie7

Closest I can get thus far is this site:

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http://www.safeneedledisposal.org/genprob.html

Each year some 8 million syringe users will administer 2-3 billion
injections outside traditional health care facilities.

Two-thirds of those ?at-home? injections are self-administered by
people with diabetes and patients receiving home health treatment
(i.e., allergies, infertility, multiple sclerosis, even veterinary
care).

Another one-third are attributed to injection drug users (IDU) using
illicit drugs like heroin and cocaine.

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More detailed information seems to reside only in rather high-priced
market study reports.  However, perhaps the above info will be a help
to you or other researchers in looking for additional details on this
topic.