[bars] Hams as % of population

Tue Sep 5 14:05:44 EDT 2023

The IARU at one time kept an updated list of hams worldwide which is probably no easy task.  I am not sure that is available presently.

Tom K1TW

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https://www.city-data.com/aradio/lic-Bedford-Massachusetts.html 

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On Tuesday, September 5, 2023, 12:06 PM, Kristie Connolly via bars <bars at w1hh.org <mailto:bars at w1hh.org> > wrote:

Hi Tim,

I went through and counted only the ones that hadn’t expired yet. 

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On Tuesday, September 5, 2023, 11:34 AM, Tim KC1RET <kc1ret.radio at gmail.com <mailto:kc1ret.radio at gmail.com> > wrote:

Active or licensed?  Those numbers, sadly, can be quite different.

73,

T.

On 05-Sep-23 11:17, Kristie Connolly wrote:

Hi Tim,  

That’s so cool. I have been looking for that information. I seem to work Brazil a fair amount.  It has mostly been the countries that you listed though. 

I just went through a website that has over 60 active Ham radio operators in Bedford, MA. 

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On Tuesday, September 5, 2023, 10:37 AM, Tim KC1RET  <mailto:kc1ret.radio at gmail.com> <kc1ret.radio at gmail.com> wrote:

I was ruminating the other day about the relative percentage of hams in various countries.  I seem to work A LOT of Italians, Spaniards and Germans.  So a quick Google search led me to Wikipedia.  It has a listing of hams by country ( https://bit.ly/3sI2aeR ).

The Top Ten by % of Population

10: United Kingdom: 

0.114

9: New Zealand:

0.120

8: Norway: (seriously?)

0.125

7: Spain:

0.127

6: Thailand:

0.147

5: Denmark

0.152

4: Canada:

0.187

3: US:

0.233

2: Japan:

0.304

1: Slovenia:

0.317

Germany was 15 at 0.073% and Italy 21 at 0.049%.

Slovenia was a bit of a surprise but it is a small country so a relatively small population of hams (6,500 as of 2000) can tip the scale pretty easily.  Same with Norway with 6,818 hams as of 2022.  US had almost 780,000 as of 2021.

So we hams are a relative rarity, population wise - approx. 1 in 500 in the US.  We are LEET! ( https://bit.ly/45DwgyC )

73,

T.

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