Does ISO perform certification?
ISO does not perform certification. This is performed by external certification bodies, thus a company or organization cannot be certified by ISO. However ISO's Committee on Conformity Assessment (CASCO) has produced a number of standards related to the certification process, which are used by certification bodies. Read more about CASCO Standards.
What is the ISO Certification Survey?
The ISO Survey Every year we perform a survey of certifications to our management system standards. The survey shows the number of valid certificates to ISO management standards (such as ISO 9001 and ISO 14001) reported for each country, each year. ISO does not perform certification.
How many ISO certificates are there in 2020?
Learn more about how to get certified. The latest results of the Survey are for 2020 which show an estimation of the number of valid certificates as of 31 December 2020. The scope of the 2020 Survey remain unchanged from the previous edition with a total of 12 ISO management system standards included.