Thursday, October 8, 2009

#24 - Christmas Island?

Below are the top ten countries, ranked by the number of loans per country. (I'd rather use the dollar amount loaned, but that information is not available.)



Country# Loans%
United States1,603,06270.1%
Canada200,5548.8%
United Kingdom78,7353.4%
Australia66,3192.9%
Germany44,8152.0%
Netherlands39,5751.7%
France29,4791.3%
Norway28,0391.1%
Sweden21,9051.0%
Belgium21,7561.0%

The list is kind of what you would expect for an organization based in America, and mostly in English. But there are a few surprises. Since the lender's country is self-reported, there is certainly some bad data. For example, Antarctica is #91, with 62 loans from two people. The oddest result is Christmas Island, #24 with 3,408 loans, between Poland and United Arab Emirates. However, all of these loans are from one person, and based on his lender page I think
it's safe to say he's not from Christmas Island. It's interesting how much a single person can affect some of the metrics. With a minimum of $25 per loan, this is over $85,000 from a single lender! (More of top lenders later...)