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

Country Issues %issues United States 245,534 24% United Kingdom 173,178 17% Germany 79,515 8% Sweden 56,714 6% Italy 55,699 6% Mexico 55,355 6% Norway 49,346 5% France 39,404 4% Belgium 36,385 4% Netherlands 36,006 4% Spain 31,632 3% Brazil 28,655 3% Australia 24,228 2%

Country Indexed %issues United States 150,922 74% Norway 15,269 8% Italy 7,830 4% United Kingdom 5,692 3% Germany 4285 2% Netherlands 3,401 2%

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.

Country Issues Indexed %complete United States 245,534 150,922 61% Norway 49,346 15,269 31% Canada 11,710 2,299 20% Italy 55,699 7,830 14% Netherlands 36,006 3,401 9% Belgium 36,385 2,448 7% Australia 24,228 1,487 6% Germany 79,515 4285 5% Sweden 56,714 2,928 5% France 39,404 1,849 5% Mexico 55,355 1,901 3% United Kingdom 173,178 5,692 3% Denmark 14,412 290 2% Portugal 11,892 224 2% Spain 31,632 578 2%

Country Covers %covers United States 253,014 51% Germany 45,780 9% United Kingdom 30,423 6% Norway 28,367 6% Sweden 21,715 4% Spain 18,469 4% France 13,719 3% Australia 11,590 2% Mexico 11,005 2% Netherlands 10,623 2% Italy 9,341 2% Brazil 9,144 2% Belgium 8,516 2% Canada 7,966 2%

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.