11 February 2020

What's the most favourite geocaching country?

I'm not wondering in what country the most favourites are given. That is bound to be the country with the most caches: The United States has accumulated almost four hundred thousands favourites with overr one million caches.

When we look to the number of favourites per cache. We get the extreme results for countries with very few caches. The nine caches of Vatican City have accumulated almost three thousand favourites. We see also big numbers for Gibraltar, Sint Maarten, San Marino, Lichtenstein and Monaco.

At the other side, there's only one cache in Eritrea and Guinea-Bissau both have not gotten a favourite yet, and neither have the nine caches in Comoros.

When we look at only countries with a decent number of caches, where I define a decent number as at least ten thousands caches. The following list appears:
Netherlands29.3
Czechia20.5
Germany16.9
Belgium16.8
Switzerland16.7
Austria13.2
Finland11.3
Denmark10.5
Slovakia7.8
Portugal7.2
Ireland6.8
United Kingdom6.1
Sweden6.0
Norway5.0
Australia4.7
New Zealand4.4
Spain4.2
France4.0
Italy3.9
United States3.8
Canada3.4
South Africa3.0
Poland2.5
Japan1.0
The country with the most favourites is The Netherlands with an average of almost thirty favourites per cache. Followed by Czechia with more than twenty. Runners up are Germany, Belgium and Switzerland with almost seventeen favourites per cache.

The glorious winner of the absolute numbers end in the bottom five, only leaving behind Canada, South Africa, Poland and Japan.


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