following up on last month's post, here is the breakdown of figures for active avatars per country for April 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 189629 active avatars during April. 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 April.
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 March figures, Argentina, Chile, China, Colombia, India, Mexico, Peru, Russia, South Korea, Turkey and Venezuela have been excluded, because the proportions are really tiny.
here's what the numbers for April look like :-)
1. the Netherlands 0.10 % (unchanged)
2. United Kingdom 0.07 % (unchanged)
3. USA 0.06 % (unchanged)
4. Australia 0.06 % (unchanged)
5. Denmark 0.06 % (unchanged)
6. Belgium 0.05 % (proportion has fallen, from 0.06 %; rank is stable)
7. Canada 0.05 % (proportion has fallen, from 0.06 %; rank has increased, displacing Slovenia and Switzerland)
8. Germany 0.05 % (proportion is stable; rank has increased, displacing Slovenia and Switzerland)
9. Switzerland 0.05 % (proportion has fallen, from 0.06 %; displaced in rank by Canada and Germany)
10. Slovenia 0.05 % (proportion has fallen, from 0.06 %; displaced in rank by Canada and Germany)
11. Portugal 0.05 % (unchanged)
12. Ireland 0.04 % (proportion is stable; rank has increased, displacing Sweden and Spain)
13. Spain 0.04 % (unchanged)
14. France 0.04 % (proportion is stable; rank has increased, displacing Sweden)
15. Italy 0.04 % (proportion is stable; rank has increased, displacing Sweden)
16. New Zealand 0.04 % (proportion is stable; rank has increased, displacing Sweden)
17. Sweden 0.04 % (proportion is stable; displaced in rank by Ireland, Spain, France, Italy and New Zealand)
18. Singapore 0.03 % (unchanged)
19. Austria 0.03 % (proportion is stable; rank has increased, displacing Norway)
20. Norway 0.03 % (proportion is stable; displaced in rank by Austria)
21. Finland 0.02 % (unchanged)
22. Greece 0.02 % (proportion is stable; rank has increased, displacing Japan)
23. Japan 0.02 % (proportion is stable; displaced in rank by Greece)
24. Israel 0.01 % (proportion is stable; rank has increased, displacing the Czech Republic)
25. the Czech Republic 0.01 % (proportion has fallen, from 0.02 %; displaced in rank by Israel)
26. Poland 0.01 % (proportion is stable; rank has increased, displacing Brazil)
27. Brazil 0.01 % (proportion is stable; displaced in rank by Poland)
28. Romania 0.01 % (unchanged)
29. Hungary 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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