Feature Request: Statistics which show where Geocaching is most popular

Question

Right now, we have "Caches per Area". It is good to see how many caches are hidden in each (part of a) country. If you leave the filter blank it will show you how many caches are there in each country of the world. That's great.

To find out, where geocaching is most popular, you have to take the size of each country and the population into account.

As done here in 2014: http://www.cacheology.net/2014/07/11/what-are-the-top-ten-geocaching-countries/

Would be nice if project-gc had a "TOP Geocaching areas" feature to get up to date results.

Answer 1

Those stats are if I understand the request correctly already implemented as checker and more tools as checkers exist at http://project-gc.com/forum/read?9,109

Number of caches by country (percapita and area) (Not a checker) 

Cache per km2 and per population 
http://project-gc.com/Challenges//22565 cacher per km2 
http://project-gc.com/Challenges//22482 cacher per 100 000 people

Thes checker will also display the problem with those stats if more filtering are not applied. The result is that caching is most popular in Vatican City State or South Georgia and Sandwich Islands depending if you go by area or population

The only county on the list that are not small by area or small poopulation Norway is the only  large counry that are on the per capita top 10

EDIT: I forgot to read the liked post and noticed that their ranking also used number of active Geocachers and number of event. The checker generator cant do active Geocachers. Event might be possible but I dont remeber the API limitation. A proper PGC stat could include both. 

The linked page are not looking at all countiries since it has Luxemburg as #1 for caches per area where it is reality on #10. If the linked stats are only looking per area they will result in scewed result if you dont include population density in som because countries have large onpopulated aread. Are caching more popular in Denmark or Canada? the caches per capite is cacada is 1.18 times the Denmark but per area it is 0,03. So some compentation has to be done for dencisy, The other way to becayse placs like Hong-Kong wil have  huge population but it is small and there is likly a lack of hiding places there,

Ordred per km^2

#	Country	nr caches	Per 100 000	Population	Per km2	Area km2	Population Density
1	Vatican City State	12	1425.178	842	27.273	0.44	1913.636
2	Monaco	28	72.917	38400	14.000	2	19200.000
3	Guernsey	448	711.122	62999	5.744	78	807.679
4	Bermuda	302	487.458	61954	5.593	54	1147.296
5	Jersey	379	369.036	102700	3.267	116	885.345
6	Macau	88	13.487	652500	3.143	28	23303.571
7	Gibraltar	17	51.298	33140	2.429	7	4734.286
8	Isle of Man	1084	1282.886	84497	1.895	572	147.722
9	Hong Kong	1828	24.882	7346700	1.650	1108	6630.596
10	Liechtenstein	237	629.934	37623	1.481	160	235.144

Sorted per capita

#	Country	nr caches	Per 100 000	Population	Per km2	Area km2	Population Density
1	South Georgia and Sandwich Islands	5	16666.667	30	0.001	3903	0.008
2	Antarctica	48	4800.000	1000	0.000	14000000	0.000
3	Pitcairn Islands	2	3571.429	56	0.043	47	1.191
4	Niue	43	2925.170	1470	0.165	260	5.654
5	Falkland Islands	70	2731.174	2563	0.006	12173	0.211
6	Svalbard and Jan Mayen	57	2157.456	2642	0.001	62045	0.043
7	Norfolk Island	43	1867.941	2302	1.194	36	63.944
8	Norway	77449	1478.930	5236826	0.239	323802	16.173
9	Vatican City State	12	1425.178	842	27.273	0.44	1913.636
10	Aland Islands	396	1364.905	29013	0.255	1552	18.694
11	Isle of Man	1084	1282.886	84497	1.895	572	147.722

Comments

Thanks for your answer. I will take a look at the checker, but still think that a proper stats page would be better.

We already have a Cache per area stat page, so it should not be too difficult to add the rest.