Infopirate.org

Summary of Second Life population statistics as at end of january 2007.

The size of virtual world : 361 square kilometers; //Residents with Premium Accounts increased 16% to more than 57.7 thousand; //Top five countries are the US, France, Germany, the UK, and the Netherlands //

This is a nifty little game and educational tool that has all of the world statistics collected about each country. It uses probable odds as to where you will be born, what gender you will be born as, and what events will happen to you throughout your life. Experience life anywhere, and make your own decisions that affect your livelihood.

Electric Sheep’s Giff Constable (Forseti Svarog in Second Life) has a breakdown of the April statistics released on Thursday by numbers maven Meta Linden. The numbers show that growth in unique Second Life users has been steadily slowing since a peak of nearly 50 percent per month in October, 2006.

When cleaning up my RSS Reader I came across this post by Om Malik from July 2006 where he quotes Reuben Steiger (Millions of Us) where he extrapolates the Second Life population to be 3.6 million by July 2007. While Om is a bit skeptic about the growth rate Reuben assumed (he was thinking about [...]