New User Stats >> January 2015

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1,004 new users joined Numista in January 2015, increasing the total member tally by 2.2%.  This is about 30% more new members than the previous month, and the largest monthly gain since January 2014!

In comparison, Numista added 1,022 new members in January 2014, and 1,214 new members in January 2013.

This month's new members added 109,000 coins into their collections.  

66.3% of these users have not yet entered a coin into their Numista collection.

989 of this month's new members selected a nation. 97 nations had at least one new member.  184 are American, 162 are French, 64 are Indian, 54 are Canadian, 46 are Belgian, and 37 are British.

We also had a spike in Lithuanian registrations this month, probably due to their adoption of the euro.

1.5% of this month's users still have not selected a nation for their profile.

The first users from the Azores, Dominica, Sao Tome & Principe, Spitsbergen and Westarctica joined Numista!

Albania, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Botswana, British Indian Ocean Territories, Cameroon, Congo (DR), Curacao, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Georgian Republic, Gibraltar, Honduras, Iceland, Jersey, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Mozambique, New Caledonia, Palestine, Paraguay, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Tanzania, Trinidad & Tobago and Zambia each gained one new member.

63% of this month's new users belong to one of the Top Ten nations on Numista by user count (France, USA, India, Canada, UK, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Australia).  Switzerland passed Argentina for 18th rank.

Of the top ten nations, Italy grew the fastest this month (5.7% increase), while France grew the slowest (2.7%).  The USA grew by 3.3%.

Tanzania added their tenth member!

User Participation scores for this month (How many new users are actually cataloging coins here):
68% Portugal (wow!)
54% Philippines
47% Germany
46% Spain
43% Russia
41% Switzerland
40% Romania
34% France, Italy, USA
32% UK
31% Australia
30% Canada
24% Belgium
17% India
13% South Africa
It has always surprised me how little presence of the countries of the Far East is in Numista. Only China is one fifth of the world population. What percentage of Chinese users are in Numista?
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Quote: zegeriIt has always surprised me how little presence of the countries of the Far East is in Numista. Only China is one fifth of the world population. What percentage of Chinese users are in Numista?
Please note that a lot of countries have limited Internet access to a lot of people where international Web pages are concerned. In China too a lot of people can actually not access Numista.

How many members do we have from China?


Thanks for statistics again Cerulean.
High numbers in January.... Peoples new years resolutions to organize their collections in 2015... Hehe.
Also great to hear about spike in amount of Lithuanian members.
As of 31 January 2015, here are the membership totals for Asia:

1727 India
242 Malaysia
200 Philippines
80 Bangladesh
77 Indonesia
65 China
58 Singapore
56 Japan
45 Vietnam
44 Thailand
35 Sri Lanka
23 Hong Kong
20 Nepal
17 South Korea
17 Taiwan
14 Brunei
4 Macau
3 Bhutan
3 Cambodia
2 East Timor
2 Mongolia
2 Burma/Myanmar
1 Laos
1 North Korea

I am not surprised by the low Chinese membership tally, given the existence of the Great Firewall:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_China

Think of what the Numista community would be like if there were 1,000 Chinese accounts here tomorrow!

Frankly, I am very curious why the Japanese and South Korean totals are not higher. Their combined membership is lower than Chile!  I can't see a reasonable explanation for this, except for language barriers.  Perhaps Japanese and Korean collectors have a Numista of their own somewhere else?
Here's another way to look at the data.

I divided each country's population by the number of Numista members.  The result is the country's population per member.

For example, there is one Numista user for every 733,000 Indians, 55,000 Australians, or 10,000 Belgians.

The lower a country appears on this list, the more popular Numista is among that country.   We can infer that this also correlates to the popularity of coin collecting for each nation.  

Here's just the Top Ten:

733231 India
112146 Italy
78222 Spain
56195 United States
55317 Australia
53332 United Kingdom
21596 Canada
19920 Portugal
10761 France
10157 Belgium

And here's the list of all countries:

61174333  Nigeria
38716872  Congo DR
25709710  Myanmar
25155000  North Korea
21045846  China
16310431  Malawi
15246400  Uzbekistan
10628972  Guinea
9823827  Burundi
9634000  Niger
8161000 Tajikistan
8129500  Mali
8127767  Angola
7047746  Cameroon
6802000  Laos
6738000  Eritrea
6489000  Yemen
6319000  Sierra Leone
5498446  Rwanda
5455910  Haiti
5157968  Zambia
5145582  Mozambique
5135052  Cambodia
4742179  Tanzania
4453000  Syria
3699250  Papua New Guinea
3600455  Iraq
3548397  Puerto Rico
3317684  Indonesia
2966115  South Korea
2905508  Pakistan
2904734  Uganda
2887133  Burkina Faso
2780750  Somalia
2730271  Madagascar
2331223  Congo Republic
2268214  Japan
2258096  Guatemala
2251500  Liberia
2120000  Lesotho
2101428  Saudi Arabia
2080238  Ghana
2016222  Vietnam
1972013  Bangladesh
1962667  Turkmenistan
1904554  Iran
1688589  Senegal
1632655  Zimbabwe
1601000  Central African Rep.
1581564  Kazakhstan
1562165  Afghanistan
1500000  Mongolia
1474341  Thailand
1468525  Kyrgyzstan
1401895  Nepal
1401258  Cuba
1378456  Taiwan
1369029  Azerbaijan
1358996  Jamaica
1263400  Libya
1146138  Benin
1137357  Ecuador
1024429  Togo
1022378  Nicaragua
1010844  Egypt
973938 Kenya
969457  Honduras
950888  Bolivia
875500  Gabon
835740  Jordan
826552  Turkey
817108  Kuwait
746900  Guyana
733231  India
728951  Mexico
711249  El Salvador
695348  Colombia
650053  Palestine
648993  Peru
610486  Dominican Republic
606054  East Timor
581698  Sri Lanka
530287  Paraguay
518467  Cape Verde
506226  Botswana
504700  Philippines
503807  Ivory Coast
491137  Brazil
470613  Gambia
450000  Djibouti
437434  Venezuela
409990  Oman
376016  Russia
368730  Swaziland
329167  Algeria
319031  Bahamas
314557  Hong Kong
290672  Solomon Islands
286393  Fiji
267785  Madeira Islands
264652 Vanuatu
252577 Transnistria
252263  Bhutan
248381  Qatar
246861  Ukraine
237025  Belarus
221337  Trinidad & Tobago
211308  Namibia
204343  Morocco
189650  Germany
188071  Bahrain
187104  Georgian Republic
186545  Lebanon
185000  Saint Lucia
176824  Panama
163695  Chile
161709  Moldova
157750  Macau
156844  Argentina
143519  Armenia
140265  South Africa
139022  Tunisia
126216  Poland
125950  Malaysia
116793  United Arab Emirates
113752 Maldives
112500 Ajman
112146  Italy
109909  Austria
103764  Costa Rica
97263 Uruguay
96622  Martinique
95000  Barbados
94305  Singapore
88371  Denmark
87432  Belize
78518  Greece
78222  Spain
68939  Bosnia & Herzegovina
67881  Czech Republic
67717  Bulgaria
67664  Hungary
62456  Sweden
62003  Montenegro
60839 Finland
60176 Abkhazia
59177  Romania
59101  Albania
58837  Israel
58234  Netherlands
56664  Norway
56195  United States
56086  Marshall Islands
55317  Australia
53332  United Kingdom
51793  Ireland
49977  Serbia
49021  New Zealand
48508  Mauritius
44975  Seychelles
44712  French Polynesia
43148  Antigua & Barbuda
41315  Macedonia
38176  Slovakia
36885  Guadeloupe
32827  Croatia
29645  Switzerland
28098  Brunei
24750  Jersey
22397  New Caledonia
22131  Reunion
21878  Iceland
21596  Canada
21479  Aruba
21124  Isle of Man
20871  Lithuania
19920  Portugal
19355  Curacao
18652  Cyprus
18279 Slovenia
16389  San Marino
16202 Faroe Islands
16059  Bermuda
14974 Cook Islands
14857v Luxembourg
14027 British Virgin Islands
13880 American Samoa
13527  Latvia
12617 Guernsey
11613 Estonia
11245 Malta
11138  Cayman Islands
10761 France
10451 Palau
10157 Belgium
9555 Aland Islands
9283 Liechtenstein
9238 Monaco
7695 Andorra
6726 Anguilla
3750 Gibraltar
3000 Falkland Islands
2000 Saint Helena & Ascension
1500 British Indian Ocean Territory
634 Alderney
552 Saint Pierre & Miquelon
440 Ascension Island
275 Cocos (Keeling) Islands
210 Vatican City
99 Tristan da Cunha
56 Pitcairn Islands
50 Sealand
47 French Antarctic Territory
15 South Georgia & Sandwich Islands

So where are the Nigerians?
Super interesting statistics, thanks.

Where are the Nigerians you ask?
The lack of coins in there might contribute to the lack of coin collectors...

Generally you need coins in circulation to make people slightly interested about them in the first place.
Correct me If I am wrong... But my Nigerian workmate went there for holiday, I asked him to keep me some coins and he said they doing use them there. Only notes, he said...
Quote: Cerulean49021  New Zealand
Are you saying there's around 80 NZ members?
Quote: neilithicAre you saying there's around 80 NZ members?
I have counted 93 Kiwi memberships.  Right now I see 37 pins on the map.  Odds are less than ten of them are active.
Great statistics Cerulean, thanks for preparing them monthly! It looks like India is the number one country of collectors!
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I hardly believe there are any members from either Westarctica, South Georgia & Sandwich Islands, Pitcairn Islands, North Korea. Mostly bacause Westarctica and South Georgia & Sandwich Islands are unihabited, Pitcairn Islands simply got 52 inhabitants - probably non coin collectors, but who knows? And North Korea says itself. So, I'm sorry to say this, but the stats are false  :P
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Banknote referee for: AGO, AZE, BLR, ECS, GEO, HTI, KAZ, KGZ, KOR, MNG, MRT, PMR, PRK, ROK, SWE, TJK, TKM, TUR, UZB, WSM, ZWE
Stats are just showing what people have chosen as their location. If they lie, stats lie.

But even so general picture of stats should be about there.
Quote: CeruleanI am not surprised by the low Chinese membership tally, given the existence of the Great Firewall:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_China
Numista is not blocked in China. There must be a different explanation.
I find this monthly stats very interesting. Thank you Cerulean for doing this faithfully every month.  As swapping coins is one of the main things we do here, would it be possible to also include stats like how many swaps were completed in the month, how many coins were swapped in those swaps and how many members took part in swapping?
Yes thank you Cerulean. this is one thing i do read every month.
Spookie look at the home page lower right hand side. Some figures It has how many exchanges in the last 30 days.
It is, what it is, or is it.
Quote: ALLRED1950Spookie look at the home page lower right hand side. Some figures It has how many exchanges in the last 30 days.
Thanks!  How did I not notice that before?  0:)
Quote: ngdawaI hardly believe there are any members from either Westarctica, South Georgia & Sandwich Islands, Pitcairn Islands, North Korea. Mostly bacause Westarctica and South Georgia & Sandwich Islands are unihabited, Pitcairn Islands simply got 52 inhabitants - probably non coin collectors, but who knows? And North Korea says itself. So, I'm sorry to say this, but the stats are false  :P
And Vatican City...
Quote: ngdawaI hardly believe there are any members from either Westarctica, South Georgia & Sandwich Islands, Pitcairn Islands, North Korea. Mostly bacause Westarctica and South Georgia & Sandwich Islands are unihabited, Pitcairn Islands simply got 52 inhabitants - probably non coin collectors, but who knows? And North Korea says itself. So, I'm sorry to say this, but the stats are false  :P
There was a statistician named George E. P. Box, and he had a saying: "Essentially, all models are flawed, but some are useful."
Quote: CeruleanAzerbaijan,  gained one new member.
I'm sorry to spoil the fun Cerulean, but that is me  (8

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