[prelude: a very warm welcome to all visitors browsing by from Hamlet Au's (RL: Wagner James Au's) kind referencing of this post at his New World Notes blog :-) thank you very much, Hamlet :-) i truly appreciate it! ]
the Lindens have just released the key metrics for last month :-)
partly prompted by a question which one of my friends in RL had asked me a couple of days' ago, and also prompted by a blog post somewhere in the ether from a few months' back, i decided to make a quick go at how the population numbers by country look, when equalized against total population size of the respective countries (as obtained from the CIA's World Factbook).
the United States, for example, had 157289 active avatars last month. the population size of the USA in July was 301139947. this means that 0.05 percent of the US population had avatars active in Second Life last month.
i took the top 30 countries by active avatars (ranked by absolute numbers), and processed them by 'active avatars as a proportion of country population'. China, Mexico, South Korea and Turkey have been excluded, because the proportions are really tiny.
here's what the numbers look like :-)
the Netherlands 0.10 %
Denmark 0.08 %
Portugal 0.07 %
Australia 0.07 %
United Kingdom 0.06 %
Belgium 0.06 %
Switzerland 0.06 %
New Zealand 0.05 %
USA 0.05 %
Germany 0.05 %
Canada 0.05 %
Ireland 0.05 %
France 0.04 %
Spain 0.04 %
Italy 0.04 %
Sweden 0.04 %
Singapore 0.04 %
Finland 0.03 %
Japan 0.03 %
Austria 0.03 %
Israel 0.03 %
Brazil 0.02 %
Greece 0.02 %
Poland 0.02 %
Romania 0.01 %
Argentina 0.01 %
analysed this way, Singapore is the Asian country with the highest proportion of active avatars in Second Life :-)
[update: the World Bank has just released the 2006/7 edition of its Doing Business guide. for the second year running, Singapore tops the list of 178 countries :-) ]
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