The real scoop on Firefox download pledges

Since Firefox gets a lot of positive karma, some people have began to use pledge numbers as a measure of civilization advancement. The thing is, the data provided by the official download page is not amortized over population. It's really unfair to compare the downloads that China makes with those of Iceland for example.

Ofcourse this is still not a measure of civilization, and propably wouldn't effect the way you choose your vacation destinations, but still it's means something to a lot of people.

I've taken some time to calculate the download pledges per capita. The sources are:

1. The HTML from http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/ as extracted at 19th of June 2pm GMT+2 time.
2. Population information from Wikipedia here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population

In order for the numbers to look nice, I've cut out the entry for Lithuania. Their percentage is a real wow 10% of the population. Way to go Lithuania :) !

Either they really really really love Firefox, or they've put some serious botnet love into action.

You can get the original Excel workbook (07) as well as the CSV for your own use here:

And the rest of the list follows: