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They are serious collectors of items like coins
and bank notes, stamps, precious stones, etc.
They constantly expand their collections by
subscribing to catalogs and magazines that cater
to collectors, attending exhibitions and
networking with collectors of similar interests.
About 40% of these people indulge in their
collection as a hobby, 30% as a form of
investment for future gains, and 30% as a source
of supplementary income.
Region:
Western Europe 269,963
Eastern Europe 51,451
North America 107,436
Central America 11,536
Caribbean 11,686
South America 22,296
Far East 138,540
South Asia 13,507
Central Asia 9,434
Middle East 24,573
Oceania 31,025
Africa 20,806
Geographical:
Western Europe-
191 Aland Islands
85 Andorra
11,583 Austria
199 Azores
13,534 Belgium
3,503 Cyprus
12,419 Denmark
185 Faroe Islands
11,862 Finland
26,908 France
27,862 Germany
104 Gibraltar
10,469 Greece
127 Guernsey
366 Iceland
11,026 Ireland
110 Isle of Man
26,072 Italy
129 Jersey
210 Liechtenstein
3,275 Luxembourg
3,364 Malta
171 Monaco
14,648 Netherlands
10,747 Norway
13,812 Portugal
49 San Marino
15,484 Spain
13,255 Sweden
14,369 Switzerland
23,843 United Kingdom
2 Vatican
Eastern Europe-
71 Albania
752 Belarus
1,413 Bosnia-Herzegovina
3,155 Bulgaria
2,249 Croatia
6,498 Czech Republic
2,597 Estonia
6,359 Hungary
43 Kosovo
2,458 Latvia
2,528 Lithuania
78 Macedonia
682 Moldova
207 Montenegro
6,777 Poland
3,015 Romania
7,125 Russia
926 Serbia
1,901 Slovakia
1,761 Slovenia
856 Ukraine
Northern Africa-
1,831 Algeria
180 Canary Islands
181 Ceuta
70 Chad
4,339 Egypt
49 Libya
195 Madeira
40 Mali
43 Mauritania
182 Melilla
1,622 Morocco
45 Niger
47 Sudan
407 Tunisia
4 Western Sahara
North America-
40 Aleutian Islands
47,526 Canada
410 Greenland
3,503 Mexico
72 St Pierre et Miquelon
55,885 United States
Central America-
371 Belize
2,388 Costa Rica
1,943 El Salvador
1,831 Guatemala
1,608 Honduras
1,497 Nicaragua
1,898 Panama
South America-
2,918 Argentina
834 Bolivia
6,289 Brazil
2,489 Chile
1,998 Colombia
2,121 Ecuador
69 Falkland Islands
202 French Guyana
227 Guyana
374 Paraguay
2,305 Peru
17 South Georgia & The South Sandwich
Is
233 Surinam
405 Uruguay
1,815 Venezuela
Caribbean-
134 Anguilla
178 Antigua and Barbuda
115 Aruba
242 Bahamas
233 Barbados
84 Bermuda
189 British Virgin Is
174 Cayman Islands
352 Cuba
148 Dominica
2,305 Dominican Republic
153 Grenada
545 Guadeloupe
1,919 Haiti
839 Jamaica
537 Martinique
35 Montserrat
149 Netherlands Antilles
2,262 Puerto Rico
139 St Kitts-Nevis
150 St Lucia
126 St Vincent and the Grenadines
515 Trinidad and Tobago
35 Turks and Caicos
128 US Virgin Islands
Far East-
1,274 Brunei
374 Cambodia
18,437 China
87 East Timor
293 Guam
17,992 Hong Kong
8,741 Indonesia
11,304 Japan
318 Laos
828 Macau
9,075 Malaysia
197 Mongolia
717 Myanmar
315 Northern Marianas
14,982 Philippines
15,762 Singapore
9,633 South Korea
8,518 Taiwan
19,106 Thailand
584 Vietnam
Oceania-
179 American Samoa
18,549 Australia
34 Christmas Island
33 Cocos (Keeling) Is
113 Cook Islands
1,079 Fiji
545 French Polynesia
265 Kiribati
177 Marshall Islands
315 Micronesia
49 Nauru
527 New Caledonia
5,676 New Zealand
35 Niue
35 Norfolk Island
92 Palau
1,631 Papua New Guinea
16 Pitcairn
399 Samoa
454 Solomon Islands
35 Tokelau
303 Tonga
48 Tuvalu
380 Vanuatu
56 Wallis and Futuna
Central Asia-
717 Armenia
1,051 Azerbaijan
873 Georgia
1,876 Kazakhstan
828 Kyrgyzstan
917 Tajikistan
784 Turkmenistan
2,388 Uzbekistan
Middle East-
1,876 Bahrain
772 Iran
2,611 Israel
466 Jordan
199 Kuwait
1,201 Lebanon
1,815 Oman
312 Qatar
6,289 Saudi Arabia
294 Syria
300 Turkey
8,128 United Arab Emirates
306 Yemen
South Asia-
664 Bangladesh
20 Bhutan
4 British Indian Ocean Terr
9,633 India
98 Maldives
206 Nepal
823 Pakistan
2,054 Sri Lanka
Sub-Saharan Africa-
128 Angola
72 Benin
53 Botswana
127 Burkina Faso
89 Burundi
163 Cameroon
32 Cape Verde
53 Central African Rep
33 Comoros
53 Congo
605 Cote d'Ivoire
225 Democratic Rep of the Congo
33 Djibouti
32 Equatorial Guinea
69 Eritrea
242 Ethiopia
36 Gabon
37 Gambia
185 Ghana
89 Guinea
37 Guinea-Bissau
204 Kenya
53 Lesotho
53 Liberia
147 Madagascar
126 Malawi
37 Mauritius
30 Mayotte
168 Mozambique
494 Namibia
327 Nigeria
34 Reunion
91 Rwanda
30 Sao Tome and Principe
108 Senegal
28 Seychelles
70 Sierra Leone
5,732 South Africa
8 St Helena
36 Swaziland
204 Tanzania
70 Togo
191 Uganda
110 Zambia
717 Zimbabwe
Media: Publishers of collectors' catalogs and
magazines, collectors associations
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