Re: I think they have to consider it...
beLIEve said:
Ah, nevermind about the per capita sales. The population in Argentina is 37M, and it's 59M in the UK. I do find these statistics interesting, though, so I'll list the populations of some of the major countries where we should know U2 sales for HTDAAB, or perhaps all albums, and see just where U2 is the most popular, besides Ireland, or some trends over time, etc. Maybe edge3 can help me out here?
Well, I'll do my best : here's the 25 countries that I know of so far,
with their population size as at Mid 2004 :
Key :
Country - Population - Sales of HTDAAB in that country
Australia - 19,913,144 - 250K
Austria - 8,174,762 - 50K
Belgium - 10,348,276 - 80K
Canada - 32,507,874 - 400K
Czech Republic - 10,246,178 - 20K
Denmark - 5,413,392 - 40K
Finland - 5,214,512 - 30K
France - 60,424,213 - 355K
Germany - 82,424,609 - 400K
Greece - 10,647,529 - 25K
Hungary - 10,032,375 - 10K
Ireland - 3,969,558 - 110K
Italy - 58,057,477 - 425K
Japan - 127,333,002 - 245K
Netherlands - 16,318,199 - 150K
New Zealand - 3,993,817 - 45K
Norway - 4,574,560 - 55K
Poland - 38,626,349 - 100K
Portugal - 10,524,145 - 130K
Slovenia - 2,011,473 - 9K
Spain - 40,280,780 - 200K
Sweden - 8,986,400 - 60K
Switzerland - 7,450,867 - 80K
United Kingdom - 60,270,708 - 1070000
United States - 293,027,571 - 2705000
Total sales of HTDAAB in these 25 countries, so far - 7044M
Now, I've heard Paul M. say that U2 operates in 100 markets/countries worldwide - but it must be very difficult to know what this exact figure is. So here's another 169 countries (every country in the world?) with their population size, from the same source :
Afghanistan 28,513,677
Albania 3,544,808
Algeria 32,129,324
Andorra 69,865
Angola 10,978,552
Antigua and Barbuda 68,320
Argentina 39,144,753
Armenia 2,991,360
Azerbaijan 7,868,385
Bahamas 299,697
Bahrain 677,886
Bangladesh 141,340,476
Barbados 278,289
Belarus 10,310,520
Belize 272,945
Benin 7,250,033
Bhutan 2,185,569
Bolivia 8,724,156
Bosnia and Herzegovina 4,007,608
Botswana 1,561,973
Brazil 184,101,109
Brunei 365,251
Bulgaria 7,517,973
Burkina 13,574,820
Burundi 6,231,221
Cambodia 13,363,421
Cameroon 16,063,678
Cape Verde 415,294
Central African Republic 3,742,482
Chad 9,538,544
Chile 15,823,957
China 1,298,847,624
Colombia 42,310,775
Comoros 651,901
Congo, Republic of the 2,998,040
Congo, Democratic Republic of the (formerly Zaire) 58,317,930
Costa Rica 3,956,507
Côte d'Ivoire 17,327,724
Croatia 4,496,869
Cuba 11,308,764
Cyprus 775,927
Djibouti 466,900
Dominica 69,278
Dominican Republic 8,833,634
East Timor 1,019,252
Ecuador 13,212,742
Egypt 76,117,421
El Salvador 6,587,541
Equatorial Guinea 523,051
Eritrea 4,447,307
Estonia 1,341,664
Ethiopia 67,851,281
Fiji 880,874
Gabon Libreville 267,667 1,355,246
Gambia 1,546,848
Georgia 4,693,892
Ghana 20,757,032
Grenada 89,357
Guatemala 14,280,596
Guinea 9,246,462
Guinea-Bissau 1,388,363
Guyana 705,803
Haiti 7,656,166
Honduras 6,823,568
Iceland 293,966
India 1,065,070,607
Indonesia 238,452,952
Iran 67,503,205
Iraq 25,374,691
Israel 6,199,008
Jamaica 2,713,130
Jordan 5,611,202
Kazakhstan 15,143,704
Kenya 32,021,856
Kiribati 100,798
Korea, North 22,697,553
Korea, South 48,598,175
Kuwait 2,257,549
Kyrgyzstan 5,081,429
Laos 6,068,117
Latvia 2,306,306
Lebanon 3,777,218
Lesotho 1,865,040
Liberia 3,390,635
Libya 5,631,585
Liechtenstein 33,436
Lithuania 3,607,899
Luxembourg 462,690
Macedonia 2,071,210
Madagascar 17,501,871
Malawi 11,906,855
Malaysia 23,522,482
Maldives 339,330
Mali 11,956,788
Malta 396,851
Marshall Islands 57,738
Mauritania 2,998,563
Mauritius 1,220,481
Mexico 104,959,594
Micronesia, Federated States of 108,155
Moldova 4,446,455
Monaco 32,270
Mongolia 2,751,314
Morocco 32,209,101
Mozambique 18,811,731
Myanmar (Burma) 42,720,196
Namibia 1,954,033
Nauru 12,809
Nepal 27,070,666
Nicaragua 5,359,759
Niger 11,360,538
Nigeria 137,253,133
Oman 2,903,165
Pakistan 159,196,336
Palau 20,016
Panama 3,000,463
Papua New Guinea 5,420,280
Paraguay 6,191,368
Peru 27,544,305
Philippines 86,241,697
Qatar 840,290
Romania 22,355,551
Russia 143,782,338
Rwanda 7,954,013
Saint Kitts and Nevis 38,836
Saint Lucia 164,213
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 117,193
Samoa 177,714
San Marino 28,503
São Tomé and Príncipe 181,565
Saudi Arabia 25,795,938
Senegal 10,852,147
Serbia and Montenegro 10,825,900
Seychelles 80,832
Sierra Leone 5,883,889
Singapore 4,353,893
Slovakia 5,423,567
Solomon Islands 523,617
Somalia 8,304,601
South Africa 42,718,530
Sri Lanka 19,905,165
Sudan 39,148,162
Suriname 436,935
Swaziland 1,169,241
Syria 18,016,874
Taiwan 22,749,838
Tajikistan 7,011,556
Tanzania 36,588,225
Thailand 64,865,523
Togo 5,556,812
Tonga 110,237
Trinidad and Tobago 1,096,585
Tunisia 9,974,722
Turkey 68,893,918
Turkmenistan 4,863,169
Tuvalu 11,468
Uganda 26,404,543
Ukraine 47,732,079
United Arab Emirates 2,523,915
Uruguay 3,399,237
Uzbekistan 26,410,416
Vanuatu 202,609
Vatican City 911
Venezuela 25,017,387
Vietnam 82,689,518
Western Sahara 267,405
Yemen 20,024,867
Zambia 10,462,436
Zimbabwe 12,671,860
So, this means that HTDAAB has 'officially' sold about another 1M in these 169 countries (or an average of 5917 copies in each) if we agree with the current Mediatraffic figure of about 7520M, which covers 'nearly 95%' of worldwide album sales - that's 7044M + 1M = 8044M (est.) 'officially' sold worldwide.
However, as you, beLIEve, & others, have already mentioned I would think that HTDAAB has 'unofficially' sold another 1-2M due to illegal sales & unreported sales data - so that's 8044M + 1-2M = 9-10M (est.) 'unofficially' sold in these 194 countries.