Sunday, September 21, 2014

A look at our International Statistics

The GCD reached two significant milestones over the last few months during its 20th Anniversary.  The first occurred on July 20th when Canadian Peter Croome indexed the 200,000th issue (Archie Comics #318).  On August 25th, the GCD hit 1,000,000 issues when Mexican indexer Ruben Cortes added John Constantine Hellblazer #2 from publisher Editorial Televisa (click here to see our press release).

Neither of these achievements were possible without the support of every indexer and editor over the last 20 years! Since 1994, over 1,000 volunteers from around the world have contributed information about comics from 53 countries to create the largest comics database on the web. We've seen is a lot of work from our international volunteers, and I asked myself "How does this break-down?"  I grabbed the International Statistics from the GCD page on 13 September 2014 and put them into a nice little spreadsheet for some analysis.  I am throwing a few set of numbers at you, so stick with me.

Total Number of Issues: 1,003,730
The GCD now lists over 1,00,000 issues in the database.  The European comics represent an impressive 60% of all issues in the database.  Here is the breakout of the top 13 countries












CountryIssues%issues
United States245,53424%
United Kingdom173,17817%
Germany79,5158%
Sweden56,7146%
Italy55,6996%
Mexico55,3556%
Norway49,3465%
France39,4044%
Belgium36,3854%
Netherlands36,0064%
Spain31,6323%
Brazil28,6553%
Australia24,2282%

CountryIndexed%issues
United States150,92274%
Norway15,2698%
Italy7,8304%
United Kingdom5,6923%
Germany42852%
Netherlands3,4012%
Total Number of Indexed Issues: 202,726
Another number that we focus on is the total number of "Indexed" comics (those issues in which at least 40% of the pages count has been indexed).






"Completion Rates"
I was very curious to see how the "completion rate" for each company (number of indexed issues / number of total issues).  I removed the countries with less than 10,000 issues and then looked at the number of indexed issues / number of total issues.  Based on the numbers above, it wasn't surprising to see the US leading in this category, but it was good to see more countries represented.
 







CountryIssuesIndexed%complete
United States245,534150,92261%
Norway49,34615,26931%
Canada11,7102,29920%
Italy55,6997,83014%
Netherlands36,0063,4019%
Belgium36,3852,4487%
Australia24,2281,4876%
Germany79,51542855%
Sweden56,7142,9285%
France39,4041,8495%
Mexico55,3551,9013%
United Kingdom173,1785,6923%
Denmark14,4122902%
Portugal11,8922242%
Spain31,6325782%

CountryCovers%covers
United States253,01451%
Germany45,7809%
United Kingdom30,4236%
Norway28,3676%
Sweden21,7154%
Spain18,4694%
France13,7193%
Australia11,5902%
Mexico11,0052%
Netherlands10,6232%
Italy9,3412%
Brazil9,1442%
Belgium8,5162%
Canada7,9662%
Covers: 492,467
One final set of numbers that typically interest many members and users.  We are quickly approaching 500,000 covers.  Since I was in the numbers, I figured I would take a peek and share.














 

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