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In anticipation of National Yoga Month (September) Fast Company has crunched a bunch of yoga-related numbers. A few of the fascinating yoga industry data points:

• Americans spend more than $5.7 billion a year on yoga classes and products.
• 71% of U.S. yoga practitioners are college educated, compared with 30% of the overall population. 
• 44% have household incomes of $75K or more.  
• More than 5,500 yoga-related injuries were treated in the U.S. in 2008.
• Nearly 16 million adults in the U.S. practice yoga. 72% of U.S. yoga practitioners are women. 
• Three-out-of-four practitioners in the U.S. have been doing yoga for 5 years or less.
• Lululemon stores generate an average of $1,800 in sales per square foot. That's about three times as much as J.Crew's sales per square foot. 
• The average yoga class costs is $12.