Before I begin my usual presentation of new user statistics for January 2026, I need to issue an unusual disclaimer. When collecting data for January 2026, I noticed that 1,640 user accounts were created over a two day period (January 7th and 8th) whose user names all shared a common prefix ("coin_" or “Notice” or some form of “Verify”) followed by a numerical sequence, or some cases an alphanumeric string. None of these accounts selected a nation, and none of them added any items at all to their collections. I suspect that these accounts were created by an automated process. Since these accounts are unlikely to represent actual human users, I have omitted them from this month's statistics.
5,665 new user accounts were created on Numista in January 2026, increasing the total member tally by 1.7%. This was the highest monthly increase in Numista's history, besting the previous record of 5,056 set in January 2025.
This January's new members added 152,000 items into their collections. 20% of January's new users appear to be active and 11% are not publicly visible.
5,235 of January's new members selected a nation. 154 nations are represented this month, and 88 of those nations have at least one active new account. Of January's new users, 895 are American, 757 are French, 252 are Indian, 239 are British, 238 are Canadian, and 226 are Spanish.
There were notable surges in memberships from Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, UK, USA and Venezuela. (That's more European nations than usual.)
Alderney, Andorra, Anguilla, Bahamas, Benin, Botswana, Cayman Islands, Congo, Cook islands, Djibouti, Dominica, Eritrea, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Isle of Man, Kuwait, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritius, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Oman, Paraguay, Rwanda, Tristan da Cunha, Tuvalu, Uganda, Western Sahara, and Zimbabwe each gained one new member.
Germany passed Brazil for 11th rank.
Of the top 30 nations, Germany grew the fastest in January (3.6% increase), while Malaysia grew the slowest (0.9%). The USA grew by 1.5% and France grew by 1.7%.
User Participation rates for January (how many new users are actively cataloging items):
43% Australia
37% Russia
36% Poland
34% Greece
33% Portugal, Czech Republic, Germany, Ukraine
32% Canada
30% Spain, Hungary
29% UK, Netherlands
27% Switzerland, Italy
26% Romania
25% Bulgaria
24% Austria, Brazil
22% USA, Bangladesh, Croatia
21% France, Belgium, Chile
20% Colombia
19% Turkey
15% Mexico
11% South Africa, Venezuela, Argentina, Philippines
9% Pakistan
8% India
7% Indonesia
4% Morocco
