PAVE Statistics: Certificates by Year and Top Countries
The AAVSB issued between 28 and 51 PAVE certificates a year from 2019 to 2024, for a total of 244 over those six years. Applications rose faster than certificates, peaking in 2023. The countries sending the most candidates, in the AAVSB's own ranking, are India, Korea, Taiwan, Mexico, Iran, Egypt and Brazil. These figures come from an AAVSB presentation published in the California Veterinary Medical Board's October 2025 meeting materials, which is the most recent public PAVE data we could find as of October 2026.
For how the program itself works, see our complete PAVE guide. This page is about the numbers: what the AAVSB has published, what you can reasonably read from it, and what it does not tell you.
PAVE Certificates Issued, 2019 to 2024
A PAVE certificate is issued only after a candidate has passed the QSE, completed the Evaluated Clinical Experience (ECE) and had all final documents accepted. These are the AAVSB's figures:
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