All PROGARCHIVES artist distribution by country!

Many thanks!

I see this thread is giving some fruit...so far the bands from El Salvador and Sri Lanka were mentioned...and I'm doing my own little research of Africa, Middle East and some other small countries!

I'll suggest Ovni to a Neo Team.

All hail Scandinavia!

We should add to the vikings' merits from the Jedi vs Knight vs. Samurai vs. Viking poll the fact that after one millenium they are the most busy making prog.

I will bother you with one more list I just made: a list of  prog density

It's based on a number of inhabitants of a certain country, and number of artists listed on ProgArchives. I am aware this is far from being perfect, and the figures are just a rough estimation. Also adding just one artists into a "less inhabitated" country ("less inhabitated" from prog point of view) could change the things drastically.

Let's say you have a country with 1 000 000 citizens and ten artist listed. Roughly, it means you will stumble upon  a prog artist after 100 000 people. It is ridiculous and not very reliable, I know. But I've made it for fun, and perhaps for some conclusions to be drawn.

If a prog band accidentally forms in a smallish country, you will get a very high ratio. Hence the, in my opinion, unrealistic high positions for Andorra and Monaco.

But -- some conclusions can be made. Needles to say, prog is more "dense" in developed countries than in Third World countries and so on. This list shows how much a country is "busy" or "lazy" in prog rock context.

For example, a Japan is a prog giant - everybody knows that. But it's interesting to see how it has been "overtook" by some smaller countries.

The final result -look at the top countries  - is giving some very interesting results...

Countries without prog artists on PA are excluded (their ratio will be infinite).

So here it goes. Smaller the number, bigger the prog density.

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China             1 332 470 000
India               583 915 000
Pakistan            167 208 500
Bangladesh          162 221 000
Philippines          46 111 330
Iran                 37 098 000
Ghana                23 837 000
Syria                21 906 000
Indonesia            20 905 909
Colombia             15 017 331
Guatemala            14 027 000
Turkey               10 216 714
Bolivia               9 863 000
Ukraine               9 228 740
Uzbekistan            9 162 667
South Africa          8 116 167
Cuba                  5 602 000
Tunisia               5 163 900
Turkmenistan          5 110 000
Georgia               4 382 100
Lebanon               4 224 000
Bosnia and Herzegovina3 767 000
Ecuador               3 507 293
Panama                3 454 000
Serbia                3 283 333
Belarus               3 223 967
Russia                3 152 555
Mexico                2 757 710
Peru                  2 648 365
Costa Rica            2 289 500
Venezuela             2 187 632
Brazil                2 154 191
Macedonia             2 048 620
Romania               1 954 420
Bulgaria              1 901 638
Armenia               1 615 050
WORLD IN TOTAL        1 506 333
Latvia                1 128 650
Uruguay               1 120 333
Japan                 1 028 871
Bahrain                 791 000
Slovakia                773 364
Greece                  703 580
Slovenia                681 529
Puerto Rico             663 667
Argentina               590 212
Poland                  577 283
Croatia                 554 382
New Zealand             540 013
Portugal                531 363
Yugoslavia              500 000
Czech Republic          498 454
Austria                 491 486
Spain                   468 668
Malta                   413 627
Ireland                 402 009
Australia               397 855
Chile                   353 167
United States           342 075   
Hungary                 303 976
Israel                  285 923
France                  233 910
Canada                  231 171
Germany                 203 588
Belgium                 173 460
Denmark                 167 256
Luxembourg              164 500
Switzerland             161 067
Netherlands             141 274
Italy                   126 993
Estonia                 111 701
United Kingdom           97 215
Andorra                  86 000
Finland                  66 779
Norway                   49 306
Faroe Islands            48 869
Sweden                   46 931
Iceland                  39 916
Monaco                   33 000










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Ah! The mighty Scandinavia!


If we imagine the prog density in China on a level of United Kingdom, China would have 13000 bands...

Nothing to be sorry about clarke2001. I was just pedantic and very annoying. 

Keep up your good work !!

ClemofNazareth wrote: clarke2001 wrote: First of all, a list of countries that are not even included on PA countries list, and hence, without artists: Antigua and Barbuda Congo (Democratic Republic) Dominica Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Sao Tome and Principe Seychelles Solomon Islands Somalia Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Timor-Leste Vanuatu   You forgot Pitcairn Island.

Here is entire Pitcairn population:




You think some of them might form a prog rock band?

But you're absolutely right, I forgot them
 

Alright, I updated it using clarke's suggestion of using colors to show intensity by using colors in the range of reds. Hopefully this makes it more intuitive. And thanks for the corrections, toroddfuglesteg! I also added blue to the bodies of inland water to make the geography a bit easier to discern.




Edited by Kestrel - August 17 2009 at 12:48

clarke2001 wrote: This is AWESOME!!  How did you do it? My only suggestion is to colour areas with various shades of a certain colour morphing to another one,  so it can be more intuitive... ..oh, and tiny little Croatia should be yellow, not brown. I'm working on painting it blue in the near future:)

I just downloaded a map from Google Image search and used the bucket option in MSPaint... pretty simple, haha.

I did think of your suggestion but I don't see the point with such a low-res image. I would definitely work on it if i could find a high-res map to color in because yeah, I totally agree that it isn't intuitive.

And sorry about Croatia. For one, I unfortunately don't have much knowledge of Eastern Europe and for two, I was not sure what to do about Yugoslavia and its related areas, so I just colored the whole area brown. Admittedly, Yugoslavia has 48 bands according to the list so the area shouldn't be brown at all, but dark blue! I will fix this soon.

Kestrel wrote: 48 from Switzerland? Weird. Also, what's the deal with Yugoslavia? The former nation and its successor states are both in here, or is Yugoslavia for the bands which existed in its duration?

Sort of..but not entirely. This issue has been brought out two or three times before.  I disagree with Yugoslavia entry (not strongly disagree, however),  I wasn't making an issue of it. As it appears, it lists bands that were formed /released a debut within the country's existence, but even here things are little hazy..and can get even hazier if some late 80's bands will be included. Also, there's short-lived "Serbia and Montenegro", but I haven't listed it here (although Progarchives' country_ID exists) because, as you've said, successor countries are here.

48 from Switzerland? Weird.

Also, what's the deal with Yugoslavia? The former nation and its successor states are both in here, or is Yugoslavia for the bands which existed in its duration?


Edited by Kestrel - August 17 2009 at 00:19

Interesting list, good work!