Market analysis
The cloning clientele has risen steadily for the last several years. There are several reasons for this:

• New cloning techniques that are cheaper and easier to employ.
• Increased visibility of cloning stations due to competition.
• Increased number of space captains – the single largest customer group.
• New laws and regulations in allowing the use of clones in areas where it was impossible before.
• Cloning no longer considered a risky experiment or a social taboo in most areas.

It is impossible to know with any certainty the size of the clone market due to excessive number of illegal or hidden clone stations. Although many of these illegal stations produce inferior clones they still steal a lot of potential customers from the legal clone stations. To be fair, these illegal stations do provide a service to people that would be denied service in any respectable cloning facility. Here is break down of various stats of the clone market today, note that numbers are not totally accurate due to lack of information from illegal stations:

Clone companies:

• Total number of clone companies [42]
• Thereof, illegal companies [18]
• Total number of clone stations [510]
• Thereof, illegal stations [60]

Selling clones:

• Total number of clones sold last year [148.732.202]
• Thereof, illegal clones [24.450.819]
• Total revenue from clone sell last year [12.419.138.867.000]

Clone composition:

• Certified human cadavers (Grade A+) [37%]
• Uncertified human cadavers (Grade A) [32%]
• Animal carcasses (Grade B) [23%]
• Organic materials (Grade C) [8%]

Ratio of space vs. ground:

• Number of cloning stations in space [103]
• Thereof, illegal stations [48]
• Number of clones sold to space captains [42.615.928]
• Thereof, sold by illegal stations [15.778.144]

As can be seen in these figures the space industry is proportionally very big considering that space farers are only a fraction of the total population in the world. This is understandable as space captains are the only profession required by law to do business with a clone station, not to mention the many hazards of space faring, which time and again has demonstrated the need for such a law. The space industry is also the fastest growing industry there is. Planetary clone stations increased their sale last year by 3% on the average, while clone facilities on space stations increased their sale on the average by a whopping 11% during the same period.