Worldly Rise Year End Stats -- 2018 Edition

I always look forward to doing these posts. I like to see how far I’ve come and what I actually did this year. This is such a long project, so it’s nice to reflect. And… 2019 will be my last full year of this project. I’m slated to end halfway through 2020 (and that’s including the three non-UN countries that I added at the end). Here’s what I did this year and where we are in this thing:

— In 2018, I started with St. Kitts & Nevis and ended with South Korea (there are TON of countries that start with S!).

— At the end of 2018, I completed the 160^th country for this blog. This now makes me 81.6% finished with this project.

— Of all the countries I have completed so far,

46 (28.75%) have been in Africa

43 (26.88%) have been in Europe

21 (13.13%) have been in Asia

12 (7.5%) have been in the Middle East

12 (7.5%) have been in the Caribbean

11 (7.04%) have been in Oceania

9 (6.88%) have been in South America

7 (4.38%) have been in Central America

2 (1.25%) has been in North America

           

— Of the 160 countries I have completed so far, 382 languages are represented in some capacity, either as an official language or at some kind of national/regional/vernacular level. Here are the ones who hold some level of status in three or more countries.  

English: 57

French: 36

Arabic: 22

Spanish: 19

German: 13

Russian: 10

Croatian: 9

Romany/Romani: 9

Italian: 8

Portuguese: 8

Albanian: 7

Armenian: 7

Hungarian: 7

Serbian: 7

Ukrainian: 7

Bulgarian: 6

Greek: 5

Rusyn: 5

Slovak: 5

Swahili: 5

Garifuna: 4

Romanian: 4

Slovene/Slovenian: 4

Turkish: 4

Azerbaijani: 3

Belarusian: 3

Berber (Tamazight): 3

Bosnian: 3

Chinese (Mandarin): 3

Danish: 3

Fula: 3

Malay (Bahasa Malaya): 3

Mandinka: 3

Occitan: 3

Polish: 3

Somali: 3

Tatar: 3

Urdu: 3

Wolof: 3

— As of December 31, 2018 at 5:30 p.m. EST, I have had a total of pageviews 661,691 (an increase of 132,721 from this time last year) and have been read by at least one person in 181 countries (an increase of 11 countries). I have posted 710 blog posts (an increase of 74 posts) since I started in February 2012 and now have 28 followers (I gained 1 more follower this year).

— Here are the top ten countries based on the number of pageviews (of all time):

            1. United States

            2. Philippines (number 3 last year)

3. Russia (number 2 last year)

            4. Canada (number 5 last year)

5. United Kingdom (number 4 last year)

            6. Germany

            7. France

            8. Australia (number 9 last year)

9. Ukraine (number 8 last year)

            10. India

— If everything goes as planned for 2019 (which may or may not happen), I will start with South Sudan and end with the United Kingdom. 

Have a happy new year!