Written by William Entriken, V.P., General manager of Pacific Medical Training and is ultimately responsible for keeping the customers happy and coming back, growing the business and keeping the team going.

American Heart Association training sales figures, monthly

This page shows how many online CPR and related resuscitation courses American Heart Association sells each month. Our data is published before the AHA’s own annual public report.

Summary

This page provides a look into employment in the healthcare sector in the United States. Helpful for policy makers, demand forecasting and training centers.

Monthly enrollments

Monthly enrollments for online BLS, ACLS, PALS, CPR and related courses. Years ending Jun 30.

Fiscal year	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Total
2018–2019	115,543	96,998	99,201	97,511	91,818	123,104	120,453	125,855	173,306	185,144	216,123	133,111	1,578,167
2019–2020	137,548	137,548	137,164	142,207	137,619	142,207	142,207	133,032	142,207	117,251	78,411	71,654	1,519,055
2020–2021	277,019	95,747	159,777	234,717	5,565	269,888	444,278	347,711	337,616	155,374	197,529	267,257	2,792,478
2021–2022	242,017	232,644	209,732	196,296	166,014	193,370	223,931	180,252	193,069	177,238	183,107	232,223	2,429,893
2022–2023	180,986	183,909	171,057	174,421	158,784	169,465	190,371	225,824	237,310	259,371	210,185	203,405	2,365,088
2023–2024	208,428	228,261	220,325	135,114	179,767	185,759	185,759	189,007	196,908	186,542	200,029	217,260	2,333,159
2024–2025	192,561	194,892	171,538	182,334

Methodology

Our company purchases many online course tokens from AHA each month and we have found that the course key codes include a serial number.

These key course codes follow a predictable pattern. For example, here is a valid token for an ACLS online course:

https://elearning.heart.org/course_enrolment?course=438&code=MjMzMjIxODc=&rand=MjM5MDIxODc=

This includes the course code MjMzMjIxODc= which decodes to 23322187.

To estimate AHA sales and revenue, we track every course code we purchase near the beginning and end of each month. Then we interpolate to estimate the course code at the exact end of the month.

The difference month-to-month is the number of courses sold in that month.

For earlier years, we had to also track course codes across Laerdal, WorldPoint and the AHA website because they each held different inventory. Also, some courses created numbers that were in bulk, e.g. the Pediatric CPR, First Aid and AED course key codes were generated separately. Going forward, the inventory of these codes is consolidated and therefore much easier to track.

Comparison to audited financials

After the end of each year, AHA publishes their audited financial statements.

This table compares our data to the revenue figures in AHA’s audited financial statements, under their “CPR Training Revenue”.

Fiscal year	Enrollments	Reported revenue
2018–2019	1,578,167	$154.9m
2019–2020	1,519,055	$162.7m
2020–2021	2,792,478	$254.1m
2021–2022	2,429,893	$268.5m
2022–2023	2,365,088	$315.6m
2023–2024	2,333,159	$331.2m

Citation

Please cite this data and publication as follows:

Entriken, William. “American Heart Association training sales figures, monthly.” Pacific Medical Training, 2024. Available at: https://pacificmedicaltraining.com/aha-training-sales-figures

And BibTeX:

@article{entriken2024aha,
  title={American Heart Association training sales figures, monthly},
  author={Entriken, William},
  journal={Pacific Medical Training},
  year={2024},
  url={https://pacificmedicaltraining.com/aha-training-sales-figures}
}