World Cooperative Monitor 2022

Status: Recent edition (superseded by 2023 and 2025)

The World Cooperative Monitor 2022 provides a global benchmark of the world’s largest cooperatives and mutuals, offering insight into their economic contribution, sectoral spread, and geographic reach.

As an earlier edition in the World Cooperative Monitor series, the 2022 report remains relevant for understanding trends over time and for comparative analysis alongside more recent editions.

Report at a glance

• Publisher: International Cooperative Alliance 

• Year: 2022

• Focus: Global cooperative and mutual economy 

• Geographic scope: International 

• Format: PDF report 

• Audience: Analysts, researchers, cooperative leaderS

Why this report matters

The 2022 edition captures a critical moment for the global economy and provides a baseline for understanding how cooperatives performed during a period of significant disruption and recovery.

For New Zealand readers, it supports longer-term analysis of cooperative resilience and scale by enabling comparisons with subsequent editions of the World Cooperative Monitor.

Key themes explored

• Rankings of the largest cooperatives and mutuals globally

• Sectoral and regional analysis

• Cooperative scale and turnover

• International benchmarking data

• Longitudinal comparison across years

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