Earlier quoted context omitted.
Less than 5 users visited the page, assuming you are from Sri Lanka.
How about Bangladesh?
Less than 5 visitors, B'desh and S'Lanka have equal number of visitors.
Demographics of Hacker News by country
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Re: Demographics of Hacker News by country
#52Cyprus, represent! More of a lurker around here, as evident by my karma. I'll be honest, I did not expect my country to even appear. Pretty cool.
Re: Demographics of Hacker News by country
#53I asked GTP-4 to recalculate the data based on the population of the countries:
I did the sorting in Apple Numbers and somehow it botched the percentages. E.g. Iceland (291%) is actually 0.291% but I have no idea how to fix that. And I have to leave now. Sorry.
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Iceland 291 %
Switzerland 229 %
Malta 200 %
Sweden 174 %
Ireland 168 %
Luxembourg 160 %
Denmark 156 %
New Zealand 156 %
Norway 153 %
Estonia 151 %
Netherlands 146 %
Finland 127 %
Canada 126 %
United States 124 %
United Kingdom 124 %
Singapore 120 %
Australia 112 %
Germany 101 %
Austria 101 %
Slovenia 97 %
Cyprus 83 %
Croatia 74 %
Lithuania 71 %
Portugal 67 %
Israel 58 %
Hong Kong 54 %
Latvia 54 %
Belgium 52 %
Czechia 47 %
Bulgaria 42 %
France 40 %
Poland 40 %
Slovakia 37 %
Armenia 33 %
Hungary 31 %
Spain 30 %
Puerto Rico 29 %
Serbia 28 %
Greece 27 %
Bosnia & Herzegovina 26 %
Georgia 26 %
Italy 22 %
Romania 21 %
Taiwan 13 %
Belarus 11 %
United Arab Emirates 10 %
Japan 8 %
Russia 7 %
South Africa 7 %
Argentina 7 %
Ukraine 7 %
Malaysia 7 %
Brazil 6 %
Turkey 6 %
South Korea 6 %
Ecuador 6 %
Chile 5 %
Kazakhstan 5 %
Colombia 4 %
Thailand 3 %
Saudi Arabia 3 %
India 2 %
Indonesia 2 %
Mexico 2 %
Vietnam 2 %
Kenya 2 %
Philippines 1 %
Egypt 1 %
Pakistan 1 %
China 0 %
Nigeria 0 %
Re: Demographics of Hacker News by country
#54Percentage of visitors relative to each country's population, top 20 Switzerland 2.30 Sweden 1.73 Ireland 1.63 Denmark 1.55 Norway 1.48 Netherlands 1.43 Canada 1.26 Finland 1.25 United Kingdom 1.25 United States 1.24 Singapore 1.23 Australia 1.13 Austria 1.01 Slovenia 0.95 Lithuania 0.79 Croatia 0.73 Germany 0.70 Portugal 0.68 Israel 0.53 Hong Kong 0.53 Via OCR/manual proofing/chatgpt population lookup/spreadsheet ca…
This is more interesting. Wow that list really barely differs from a top Human Development Index. Look at those top outliers
Switzerland 2.30
Sweden 1.73
Ireland 1.63
Denmark 1.55
Norway 1.48
Netherlands 1.43
Re: Demographics of Hacker News by country
#55Interesting to see UK and Germany taking the 2nd and 3rd spots. Is there any easy explanation for why UK and Germany are at the next two spots? Is UK the next hotspot for IT after US? Is Germany too? What about China and India? Does it not have more IT crowd than UK or Germany? Or most of them don't visit HN? Interested in understanding these trends better.
I suspect HNers in China use VPN?
UK and Germany are also hotspots for startups, with large English speaking IT populations.
Re: Demographics of Hacker News by country
#56I asked GTP-4 to recalculate the data based on the population of the countries: I did the sorting in Apple Numbers and somehow it botched the percentages. E.g. Iceland (291%) is actually 0.291% but I have no idea how to fix that. And I have to leave now. Sorry. --- Iceland 291 % Switzerland 229 % Malta 200 % Sweden 174 % Ireland 168 % Luxembourg 160 % Denmark 156 % New Zealand 156 % Norway 153 % Estonia 151 % Netherl…
It got at least NZ very wrong.
Re: Demographics of Hacker News by country
#57Percentage of visitors relative to each country's population, top 20 Switzerland 2.30 Sweden 1.73 Ireland 1.63 Denmark 1.55 Norway 1.48 Netherlands 1.43 Canada 1.26 Finland 1.25 United Kingdom 1.25 United States 1.24 Singapore 1.23 Australia 1.13 Austria 1.01 Slovenia 0.95 Lithuania 0.79 Croatia 0.73 Germany 0.70 Portugal 0.68 Israel 0.53 Hong Kong 0.53 Via OCR/manual proofing/chatgpt population lookup/spreadsheet ca…
It looks like you're missing Finland: visitor share 0.7%, population 5614571.
Re: Demographics of Hacker News by country
#58I felt that this is more in general trend with most websites, especially with visits from India. Despite being one of the most populous country with "high internet penetration", Indians usually don't seem to visit websites.
I know the post's is the data is from HackerNews visitors over a certain period of time -- when it was working time across USA's timezone.
Even on my own personal website (I'm Indian), India is like the 4th highest visitor with a hugh margin of difference from USA's visit. It, however, does catches up with USA to my family website though the difference still remains high with the top visitors - USA.
Re: Demographics of Hacker News by country
#59Percentage of visitors relative to each country's population, top 20 Switzerland 2.30 Sweden 1.73 Ireland 1.63 Denmark 1.55 Norway 1.48 Netherlands 1.43 Canada 1.26 Finland 1.25 United Kingdom 1.25 United States 1.24 Singapore 1.23 Australia 1.13 Austria 1.01 Slovenia 0.95 Lithuania 0.79 Croatia 0.73 Germany 0.70 Portugal 0.68 Israel 0.53 Hong Kong 0.53 Via OCR/manual proofing/chatgpt population lookup/spreadsheet ca…
It looks like you're missing Finland: visitor share 0.7%, population 5614571.
Indeed. (ChatGPT silently removed that row...) Fixed now.
Re: Demographics of Hacker News by country
#60Would be interesting to see that list compensated for the number inhabitants per country.