following up on February's post, here is the breakdown of figures for active avatars per country for February 2008, normalised against the respective population sizes (again, population totals were obtained from the CIA's World Factbook).
for those of you who are new to this, i'll give you a concrete example (if you've read my post from September 2007 on the same topic, you can just skip ahead to the next paragraph). the United States had 182698 active avatars during February. the population size of the USA in July 2008 is projected to be 303824646. this means that 0.06 percent of the US population had avatars active in Second Life during February.
i took the top 40 countries by active avatars (ranked by absolute numbers), and processed them by 'active avatars as proportion of country population'. just like for the January figures, Argentina, Chile, China, Colombia, India, Mexico, Peru, Russia, South Korea, Turkey and Venezuela have been excluded, because the proportions are really tiny. excluded for the same reason from this list of 40 is Afghanistan.
here's what the numbers for February look like :-)
1. the Netherlands 0.10 % (unchanged)
2. United Kingdom 0.08 % (proportion has increased, from 0.07 %; rank has increased, displacing Slovenia)
3. Denmark 0.06 % (proportion is stable; rank has increased, displacing Slovenia and the USA)
4. USA 0.06 % (unchanged)
5. Australia 0.05 % (proportion is stable; rank has increased, displacing Slovenia, Switzerland and Germany)
6. Slovenia 0.05 % (proportion has fallen, from 0.07 %; displaced in rank by the United Kingdom, Denmark, the USA and Australia)
7. Germany 0.05 % (unchanged)
8. Switzerland 0.05 % (unchanged)
9. Belgium 0.05 % (unchanged)
10. Canada 0.05 % (unchanged)
11. Spain 0.04 % (proportion is stable; rank has increased, displacing France, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Norway)
12. Ireland 0.04 % (unchanged)
13. France 0.04 % (proportion is stable; displaced in rank by Spain and Ireland)
14. Sweden 0.04 % (proportion is stable; rank has increased, displacing Italy, Portugal and Norway)
15. Portugal 0.04 % (proportion is stable; displaced in rank by Spain and Sweden)
16. Italy 0.04 % (proportion is stable; displaced in rank by Spain, Sweden and Portugal)
17. New Zealand 0.03 % (proportion has fallen, from 0.04 %; rank has increased, displacing Norway)
18. Norway 0.03 % (proportion has fallen, from 0.04 %; displaced in rank by Spain, Sweden and New Zealand)
19. Austria 0.03 % (unchanged)
20. Singapore 0.03 % (proportion has increased, from 0.02 %; rank is stable)
21. Japan 0.02 % (unchanged)
22. Finland 0.02 % (unchanged)
23. Greece 0.02 % (unchanged)
24. Brazil 0.01 % (proportion has fallen, from 0.02 %; rank is stable)
25. Israel 0.01 % (proportion is stable; rank has increased, displacing the Czech Republic)
26. the Czech Republic 0.01 % (proportion has fallen, from 0.02 %; displaced in rank by Israel)
27. Poland 0.01 % (unchanged)
28. Romania 0.01 % (new entry)
analysed this way, Singapore is still the Asian country with the highest proportion of active avatars in Second Life.
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