Reader statistics: Myanmar and Cuban readers gain internet connectivity

French readership entered the top ten "Feast or Famine" audience replacing readers from the Netherlands. French readers entered the top ten briefly in July 2011, with a six-monthly increase of 259%, ousting Chinese readership, but dropped out a month later. From mid-2012 they appeared to have settled into tenth position.

The top ten readers (January 2013) were from: (1) USA, (2) Georgia, (3) Russia, (4) United Kingdom, (5) Australia, (6) India, (7) Germany, (8) Canada, (9) Pakistan, and (10) France.

Over the past year, United Kingdom readers dropped from third to fourth position, Indian readers dropped from fourth to sixth, and German readers dropped from sixth to seventh position. In addition to French readers, increased readership included Russian readers (from seventh to third position) and Pakistan readers (from tenth to ninth position).

The greatest increases over the past year from January 2012 to January 2013 are: (1) Papua New Guinea (93.8% increase, mainly due to my work in the country in 2012), (2) Russia (89.5%), (3) Taiwan (87.1%), (4) Norway (85.7%), (5) Nigeria (81.3%), (6) Vietnam (80.0%), (7) Australia (75.0%), (8) USA (73.6%), (9) Pakistan (73.2%), and (10) India (69.2%). Nepal also made a substantial increase of 68.2%, with France at 66.7%. Other upward moving readerships include Peru (66.7%), Colombia (63.6%), Hungary (63.6%), Turkey (59.3%), Thailand (53.3%), Singapore (39.4%), Azerbaijan (37.5%), and Ukraine (34.5%).

Newcomers during the year, from January 2012 to January 2013, were readers from Aruba, Cook Islands, Cuba, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Laos, Mali, Moldova, Myanmar, Senegal, Slovakia, Somalia, Syria, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, and Zimbabwe.

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