FTC Issues FY 2016 National Do Not Call Registry Data Book

The Federal Trade Commission issued the National Do Not Call Registry Data Book for Fiscal Year 2016. Consumers can use the National Do Not Call Registry to choose not to receive telemarketing calls. Now in its eighth year of publication, the Data Book contains a wealth of information about the Registry for FY 2016 (from October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016), including:
The number of active registrations and consumer complaints since the Registry began in 2003
FY 2016 complaint figures by month and type
FY 2016 registration and complaint figures for all 50 states and the District of Columbia, by population
Rankings of the number of Do Not Call registrations, by state population
The number of entities accessing the Registry by fiscal year
An appendix with registration and complaint figures organized by consumer state and area code.
According to the Data Book, at the end of FY 2016, the Do Not Call Registry contained just over 226 million actively registered phone numbers, up from the 223 million at the end of FY 2015. In addition, the number of consumer complaints about unwanted telemarketing calls received increased from just under 3.6 million during FY 2015 to just over 5.3 million during FY 2016.