Meaningless (?) statistic of the day
Sep. 1st, 2005 03:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trixtahAround 78% of New Zealanders have passports. 83% of British people have a passport (gosh! all those kids under 16 with passports). I can only get a rough figure for passports in Australia, but the figure cited is a million issued a year. Given 10 years for a passport's validity, that gives us 10 million passports, or around 50% of the population.
Approximately 17% of USAians have passports.
Food for thought, eh?
(of course, the discrepency in numbers between the percentage of passports issued to kiwis and those to Aussies would be explained by Australians as representing the number of us NZers cluttering up their fair land...)
ETA: Some of my numbers are a bit off; check my comment below for updates. The proportions are roughly the same; my point hasn't changed.
Approximately 17% of USAians have passports.
Food for thought, eh?
(of course, the discrepency in numbers between the percentage of passports issued to kiwis and those to Aussies would be explained by Australians as representing the number of us NZers cluttering up their fair land...)
ETA: Some of my numbers are a bit off; check my comment below for updates. The proportions are roughly the same; my point hasn't changed.
