Which is Einsteins most favourite geocaching country?

A few weeks ago we looked at which country had the most favourites per cache. But as Albert Einstein teached us: "Every thing is relative". So this week we don't look at the number of favourites an average cache scores, but to the favourites relative to the number of found logs in a country.

When we look at the numbers we see again the countries with few caches score the extremes. Yemen with only two caches with eighteen founds and five favourite ends in the first place with almost thirty percent favourites per log. Second are the Wallis and Futuna Islands which only cache collects with twenty five percent favourites. Third place for Tonga with just under twenty five percent favourites.

Again we look at the countries with at least ten thousands of  caches. Then we got the following result:

Switzerland	7.4%
Netherlands	7.0%
Belgium	6.8%
Germany	6.6%
Ireland	6.3%
Austria	5.8%
Denmark	5.8%
Norway	5.5%
Sweden	5.4%
United Kingdom	5.0%
New Zealand	5.0%
South Africa	4.9%
Finland	4.8%
Australia	4.7%
Italy	4.6%
France	4.5%
Canada	4.5%
Spain	4.5%
Slovakia	4.3%
Czechia	4.1%
Portugal	4.1%
United States	3.9%
Poland	3.2%
Japan	3.1%

Who would expect the country Einstein moved to in 1895 and became a citizen of in 1901 would be his favourite country.

When we compare this week top with that of a tree weeks ago, we see the Netherlands has dropped one place with seven precent. Belgium gained one place and Germany lost one. The last country with more than six percent favourites per log is Ireland.

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:

Netherlands	29.3
Czechia	20.5
Germany	16.9
Belgium	16.8
Switzerland	16.7
Austria	13.2
Finland	11.3
Denmark	10.5
Slovakia	7.8
Portugal	7.2
Ireland	6.8
United Kingdom	6.1
Sweden	6.0
Norway	5.0
Australia	4.7
New Zealand	4.4
Spain	4.2
France	4.0
Italy	3.9
United States	3.8
Canada	3.4
South Africa	3.0
Poland	2.5
Japan	1.0

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.