Global Supers Demographics

[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?

 

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.

[Tamashii2000]

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

[Bartman]

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.

[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.

 

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.

[Doug McCrae]

Re: Global Supers Demographics

 

Originally posted by Bartman

43 Iran

6 Iraq

No wonder the Iraqis lost the war.

[Bartman]

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.

[Bartman]

Re: Re: Global Supers Demographics

 

Originally posted by Doug McCrae

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.

[Thirdbase]

Re: Global Supers Demographics

 

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.