Download Day World Rankings

Ranking	Country	Population	Firefox Downloads	%age
N/A	TOTAL	6,466,585,288	8,151,257	0.13
1	Lithuania	3,361,100	236,177	7.03
2	Iceland	316,252	4,581	1.45
3	Slovenia	2,025,768	23,597	1.16
4	Norway	4,767,520	50,407	1.06
5	Finland	5,312,353	54,935	1.03
6	Faroe Islands	48,547	484	1
7	Switzerland	7,619,800	75,450	0.99
8	Estonia	1,340,600	11,910	0.89
9	Netherlands	16,426,371	144,506	0.88
10	Austria	8,334,325	72,925	0.87
11	USA	304,367,000	2,591,270	0.85
12	Germany	82,244,000	679,033	0.83
13	Hungary	10,043,000	82,601	0.82
14	Sweden	9,201,650	65,159	0.71
15	Canada	33,294,100	224,720	0.67
16	Spain	45,200,737	299,794	0.66
17	Australia	21,328,050	134,220	0.63
18	Czech Republic	10,403,136	60,768	0.58
19	Bulgaria	7,640,238	40,910	0.54
20	Ireland	4,339,000	23,199	0.53
20	Poland	38,115,967	203,350	0.53
20	Belgium	10,584,534	55,911	0.53
23	UK	60,587,300	297,610	0.49
23	New Zealand	4,267,000	20,770	0.49
25	Latvia	2,269,600	10,874	0.48
26	France	64,473,140	292,266	0.45
26	Israel	7,282,400	32,510	0.45
28	Italy	59,536,507	245,678	0.41
29	Slovakia	5,402,273	21,212	0.39
30	Portugal	10,623,000	38,927	0.37
31	Iran	71,208,000	259,153	0.36
32	Chile	16,598,074	57,328	0.35
33	Croatia	4,555,000	14,906	0.33
34	Japan	127,690,000	403,895	0.32
35	Taiwan	22,990,000	70,150	0.31
36	Romania	21,438,000	62,405	0.29
37	Greece	11,147,000	31,648	0.28
38	Cyprus	855,000	2,031	0.24
39	Greenland	58000	113	0.19
40	United Arab Emirates	4,380,000	6,778	0.15
40	Macedonia	2,038,000	3,102	0.15
40	Argentina	41,000,000	61,487	0.15
43	Puerto Rico	3,991,000	5,589	0.14
44	Trinidad & Tobago	1,333,000	1,568	0.12
44	Bahamas	331000	388	0.12
46	Serbia	9,858,000	10,800	0.11
47	Turkey	70,586,256	72,353	0.1
47	Brazil	187,047,836	185,996	0.1
47	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3,935,000	3,820	0.1
50	South Korea	48,224,000	44,621	0.09
51	Mexico	106,682,500	85,106	0.08
51	Mauritius	1262000	992	0.08
51	Russia	141,927,900	107,710	0.08
54	Venezuela	27,908,875	19,682	0.07
54	Panama	3,343,000	2,281	0.07
54	Falkland Islands	3000	2	0.07
54	Moldova	3,794,000	2,470	0.07
58	Columbia	44,090,118	28,439	0.06
58	Ukraine	46,287,138	29,449	0.06
58	Peru	28,750,770	18,173	0.06
61	Belarus	9,690,000	5,290	0.05
61	Montenegro	598,000	308	0.05
61	Dominican Rep.	9,760,000	4,954	0.05
64	Vietnam	87,375,000	38,766	0.04
64	Thailand	63,038,247	26,663	0.04
64	Suriname	458,000	188	0.04
64	South Africa	47,850,700	18,891	0.04
64	Tunisia	10,327,000	3,695	0.04
69	Mongolia	2,629,000	848	0.03
69	Ecuador	13,341,000	4,245	0.03
69	Philippines	88,574,614	27,874	0.03
69	Guyana	738,000	219	0.03
69	Guatemala	13,354,000	3,862	0.03
69	Bolivia	9,525,000	2,651	0.03
69	Lebanon	4099000	1,025	0.03
76	Jordan	5,924,000	1,452	0.02
76	Reunion	793000	194	0.02
76	Oman	2595000	613	0.02
76	Armenia	3002000	576	0.02
76	Georgia	4,395,000	840	0.02
76	Nicaragua	5,603,000	1,070	0.02
76	Kazakhstan	15,422,000	2,545	0.02
83	Morocco	31,224,000	4,624	0.01
83	Namibia	2074000	285	0.01
83	Honduras	7106000	957	0.01
83	China	1,324,443,000	173,513	0.01
83	Nepal	28,196,000	3,562	0.01
83	Sri Lanka	19,299,000	2,154	0.01
83	Botswana	1882000	207	0.01
83	Cuba	11,268,000	1,141	0.01
83	Algeria	33,858,000	3,256	0.01
83	Indonesia	231,627,000	21,489	0.01
83	Guadeloupe	408000	36	0.01
83	Bhutan	658000	55	0.01
83	Egypt	75,498,000	5,888	0.01
83	Azerbaijan	8467000	646	0.01
83	Gabon	1331000	97	0.01
83	India	1,134,260,000	80,245	0.01
83	Senegal	12379000	732	0.01
100	Kyrgyzstan	5,317,000	229	0
100	Libya	6160000	246	0
100	Kenya	37,538,000	1,253	0
100	Pakistan	163,579,000	5,157	0
100	Syrian Arab Republic	19929000	626	0
100	Ghana	23478000	681	0
100	Cote D'Lvoire	19262000	470	0
100	Uzbekistan	27,372,000	595	0
100	Cambodia	14444000	286	0
100	Zimbabwe	13349000	191	0
100	Bangladesh	158,665,000	2,232	0
100	Madagascar	19683000	272	0
100	Angola	17024000	230	0
100	Haiti	9598000	128	0
100	Mauritania	3124000	41	0
100	Zambia	11922000	154	0
100	Solomon Islands	506992	6	0
100	Mozambique	21397000	244	0
100	Nigeria	148,093,000	1,655	0
100	Tajikistan	6736000	70	0
100	Iraq	28993000	293	0
100	Cameroon	18549000	175	0
100	Myanmar	48798000	438	0
100	Sudan	38560000	344	0
100	Yemen	22389000	189	0
100	Papua New Guinea	6,331,000	51	0
100	Benin	9033000	68	0
100	Togo	6585000	43	0
100	Mali	12337000	79	0
100	Tanzania	40454000	254	0
100	Uganda	30884000	187	0
100	Afghanistan	27145000	148	0
100	Rep. Of Congo	3768000	13	0
100	Eritrea	4851000	14	0
100	Ethiopia	77127000	200	0
100	Turkmenistan	4965000	12	0
100	Niger	14226000	27	0
100	Guinea	9370000	17	0
100	Somalia	8699000	13	0
100	Demo. Rep. Of Congo	62636000	71	0
100	Sierra Leone	5866000	6	0
100	Liberia	3750000	2	0
100	Chad	10781000	2	0
100	Western Sahara	480000	0	0
100	North Korea	23790000	0	0
100	Guinea-Bissau	1695000	0	0
100	French Guiana	209,000	0	0

per capita version of Firefox download figure

On June 28th, 2008 Liz M says:

I and colleagues are trying to contact whoever at or affiliated with Firefox built the page at http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord. Does anyone know whom to contact?

We are hoping someone can be persuaded to remake that map in terms of per capita instead of absolute downloads, even just as a single static figure, for publication and for use in lobbying on the state of internet connectivity in Africa. The Firefox download stats are a good empirical demonstration of the lack of connectivity; they have been discussed widely in the African internet activist community. We would like to use these data in a figure in a policy paper to be released before the July G8 meeting, at which African connectivity is now on the agenda. We have little manpower right now to remake the figure from scratch, though, & if anyone at Firefox or in this group could be persuaded to that we would give full credit (and the publicity cannot be bad for Firefox, incidentally)

I'd appreciate any help we could get, or information on how to contact the appropriate people.

For more information on this issue, please see http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/320/5881/1261
for a recent op-ed in Science(you may have to register - free - to see this), or for broader information, our website www.arp.harvard.edu/AfricaHigherEducation, and click on the "online" link for internet issues.

We would also appreciate, incidentally, support in spreading this website and encouraging further links to drive up its Google ranking(it sits at #11 currently when Googled on "Africa Higher Education")

thanks
Liz Moyer
University of Chicago

current numbers?

On June 19th, 2008 lwd says:

Hey, are the numbers in http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord downloads in 24h or overall?

re:lithuania

On June 19th, 2008 lwd says:

I don't know if these numbers are correct. Lithuania had about 15 000 2 hours before deadline and in just 2 hours their score went up to 230 000. So yeah, I want to know what happened there also.

BTW, Firefox downloads map and Firefox pledges map.

Here are a few countries

On June 18th, 2008 ottodv says:

Here are a few countries missing from the list, while they scored pretty high percentages:

Country Downloads Population Percentage

Luxemburg 5,912 480,222 1.23%
Liechtenstein 412 35,365 1.16%
Denmark 48,393 5,475,791 0.88%
Singapore 31,320 4,588,600 0.68%
Andorra 446 71,822 0.62%
Hong Kong 42,232 6,963,100 0.61%
Malta 1,957 402,000 0.48%
Antigua & Barbuda 276 85,000 0.32%
Turks and Caicos Islands 60 26,000 0.23%
Maldives 701 306,000 0.23%
Costa Rica 9,166 4,468,000 0.21%
Brunei 632 390,000 0.16%
Malaysia 30,600 27,170,000 0.11%

I used these numbers, plus the extra ones for the missing countries to create a download map.

- Otto - SOS

A lot of missing countries

On June 18th, 2008 meximese says:

Just wanted to point out that there are a lot of countries missing from this list. There are also a handful of non-countries included on the list/map. If you look at the flash map at world-record headquarters page, you might notice that most countries in Micronesia and Polynesia don't exist. Also, Reunión gets a place on the map, but just north Seychelles is nowhere to be found. Reunión is just a French territory!

Just a thought.

"Germany had 712 821

On June 18th, 2008 Ynot82 says:

"Germany had 712 821 Downloads. Is the table accurate?" probably not, no Figures are taken about 20mins after the cut off time (taken 19:35 (ish) UK local time)

I don't think there's a lot of point quibbling over the precise download figures

The population figures are likely to be out of date, and more inacurrate, anyway

it's just a bit of fun - don't read too much into the table

This table is not accurate

On June 18th, 2008 misch says:

Hi,
Germany had 712 821 Downloads.

Is the table accurate?

This list makes a lot more