Global Supers Demographics

So all this recent talk about demographics got me thinking, what would the world look like demographic wise? So I came up with a simple calculation. The base was 1 super per million population I then multiplied this by GDP(in $US)/10000. This gave provided a focus of supers in industrialized nations. All in all I'm pretty happy with the numbers and distribution, so I figured I'ld post it here for comments. What do you all think?

Supers Country

(174) Africa
18 Algeria
1 Angola
1 Benin
1 Botswana
1 Brunei
1 Burkina Faso
3 Cameroon
1 Chad
3 D. R. Congo
3 Cote d'Ivoire
26 Egypt
5 Ethiopia
1 Gabon
4 Ghana
2 Guinea
3 Kenya
1 Lesotho
4 Libya
1 Madagascar
1 Malawi
1 Mali
1 Mauritania
1 Mauritius
12 Morocco
2 Mozambique
1 Namibia
1 Niger
11 Nigeria
1 Rwanda
41 South Africa
5 Sudan
2 Tanzania
1 Togo
6 Tunisia
3 Uganda
1 Zambia
3 Zimbabwe

(1487) Americas
45 Argentina
1 Bahamas
2 Bolivia
130 Brazil
88 Canada
15 Chile
26 Colombia
3 Costa Rica
3 Cuba
5 Dominican Republic
4 Ecuador
3 El Salvador
5 Guatemala
1 Haiti
2 Honduras
1 Jamaica
93 Mexico
1 Nicaragua
2 Panama
3 Paraguay
13 Peru
4 Puerto Rico
1 Trinidad and Tobago
1018 United States
3 Uruguay
15 Venezuela

(1751) Asia
2 Afghanistan
1 Armenia
2 Azerbaijan
1 Bahrain
23 Bangladesh
6 Burma
2 Cambodia
552 China
18 Hong Kong
261 India
69 Indonesia
43 Iran
6 Iraq
12 Israel
345 Japan
2 Jordan
10 Kazakhstan
2 Korea, North
87 Korea, South
3 Kuwait
1 Kyrgyzstan
1 Laos
2 Lebanon
20 Malaysia
4 Nepal
2 Oman
31 Pakistan
34 Philippines
2 Qatar
25 Saudi Arabia
2 Senegal
11 Singapore
6 Sri Lanka
5 Syria
39 Taiwan
1 Tajikistan
41 Thailand
45 Turkey
2 Turkmenistan
5 United Arab Emirates
6 Uzbekistan
17 Vietnam
2 Yemen

(1218) Europe
1 Albania
22 Austria
8 Belarus
27 Belgium
1 Bosnia and Herzegovina
5 Bulgaria
4 Croatia
15 Czech Republic
15 Denmark
1 Estonia
13 Finland
152 France
2 Georgia
218 Germany
19 Greece
12 Hungary
1 Iceland
11 Ireland
140 Italy
2 Latvia
3 Lithuania
2 Luxembourg
1 Macedonia
1 Malta
1 Moldova
41 Netherlands
14 Norway
34 Poland
17 Portugal
15 Romania
120 Russia
6 Slovakia
3 Slovenia
76 Spain
22 Sweden
23 Switzerland
20 Ukraine
148 United Kingdom
2 Yugoslavia

(56) Pacific
47 Australia
8 New Zealand
1 Papua New Guinea

* As a note all countries with 0 supers were left off of the list.

Hmm, would this be all the superheroines with powers? Or are the batman/ironman types left off?

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Originally posted by Tamashii2000
Hmm, would this be all the superheroines with powers? Or are the batman/ironman types left off?

My idea was for all 'supers' to be included.

Heck, that's a lot!

1751 supers in Asia?

In such a campaign, supers become almost a commonsight. It's also harder to keep track of the main heros/vilains. Makes for a somewhat "Kingdom Comish" feel. But it's alright I guess.

I play a somewhat more epicurian campaign. I think it's kinda cool that as a super, your regularly cross paths with some regulars. Here are my numbers;

Africa: 1 SH per 10 millions people, for ± 65 SH.
North America: 1 per 750 000 inhabitants, about ± 490 SH.
South America : 1 per 1.7 millions inhabitants, for ± 146 SH.
Asia: 1 per 8 millions, ± 388 SH.
Europe: 1 per 1,3 millions, so ± 538 SH.
Oceania: 1 per 1,5 millions, about ± 19 SH.
Arctic, Antarctic; Negligible.

Those numbers are not only about population density, but modernity, civil background and economic/strategic importance. They include truly innovative tech-users, Immortals and Alien beings, but exclude run-of-the-mills tech and mundane (but talented) Martial artists.

Re: Global Supers Demographics

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Originally posted by Bartman
43 Iran
6 Iraq

No wonder the Iraqis lost the war.

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Originally posted by Nucleon
Heck, that's a lot!

1751 supers in Asia?

In such a campaign, supers become almost a commonsight. It's also harder to keep track of the main heros/vilains. Makes for a somewhat "Kingdom Comish" feel. But it's alright I guess.

It may be a lot but it is still slightly under Champion Universe's numbers. In the official universe there are about 6,000 supers world wide.

Re: Re: Global Supers Demographics

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Originally posted by Doug McCrae

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Originally posted by Bartman
43 Iran
6 Iraq

No wonder the Iraqis lost the war.

Yeah, I though that was interesting as well. But it makes sense. Iran has nearly 3 times the population (67 million to 24 million) and over twice the per capita income ($6400 to $2500). Although I think during the war they were closer on both.

Re: Global Supers Demographics

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Originally posted by Bartman
So all this recent talk about demographics got me thinking, what would the world look like demographic wise? So I came up with a simple calculation. The base was 1 super per million population I then multiplied this by GDP(in $US)/10000. This gave provided a focus of supers in industrialized nations. All in all I'm pretty happy with the numbers and distribution, so I figured I'ld post it here for comments. What do you all think?

I assume that you meant Per Capita GDP, since the formula didn't work otherwise. The only problem with that is that:

Pop/1,000,000xPer Capita GDP/10,000 =
Pop/10,000,000,000xGDP/Pop =
GDP/10,000,000,000

Population is eliminated from your equation.