4,239 new users joined Numista in December 2024, increasing the total member tally by 1.6%.
This December's new members added 114,000 items into their collections. 18% of December's new users appear to be active and 9% are not publicly visible.
4,034 of December's new members selected a nation. 685 are American, 546 are French, 322 are Indian, 162 are British, and 154 are Filipino. 151 nations are represented this month, and 84 of them have added at least one item to their collections.
There were notable surges in memberships from Aruba, Australia, Austria, China, Cyprus, Falkland Islands, Fiji, Greece, Iran, Ivory Coast, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Latvia, Martinique, Morocco, Mozambique, Netherlands, Switzerland and Syria.
Ascension Island, Bahrain, Benin, British Virgin Islands, Burundi, Cayman Islands, Ethiopia, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Guam, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho, Luxembourg, Mauritania, Montenegro, Namibia, New Caledonia, Oman, Pitcairn Islands, Sudan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad & Tobago, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe each gained one new member.
Morocco passed Turkey for 25th rank.
Of the top 20 nations, Mexico grew the fastest in December (4.0% increase), while Italy grew the slowest (0.7%). The USA grew by 1.4% and France grew by 1.5%.
User Participation rates for December (how many new users are actively cataloging items):
39% Bangladesh
35% UK
32% Romania
30% Germany
29% Belgium
27% USA
26% Canada
25% Brazil
24% Australia
21% Portugal, France, Greece
19% Spain, China
18% Argentina, Netherlands
12% Ukraine
10% India
9% Morocco, South Africa, Philippines, Egypt
5% Mexico
I'm starting to wonder how many of the idle accounts, the ones who never catalog a coin or make a forum post, are bot generated.