[Milsurplus] Radios per population, 1947

[Hubert Miller]

Flipping thru a volume of 'Tele-Tech' magazine, still trying to cull the paper around here, I saw in March 1947 an interesting page on "Density of Radio
Receivers Throughout the World".  Some of the stats were still from WWII years; newer stats apparently unavailable in those cases. But for 3 countries,
Netherlands, Norway, and Belgium, it's clear, that even by this 1947 date, those countries ownership of radios was still down by 25-50% from prewar,
radio per-thousand-inhabitants population. I take it that's the result of German occupation forces confiscation of radios. ( I don't know if this applies also
to France; seems that would have been a project of a truly massive scale. )
Some numbers, radios per 1000 population, by rank:
1 USA  425
6 U.K  217
9 Germany 168  ( 1944 )
20 Japan 93         ( 1943 )
23 Norway 68     ( 145.5, 1941 )
24 Russia  62       ( 1941 )
26 Cuba 52
27 Chile 48
32 Puerto Rico 32
67 Poland 6
78 Haiti  1.3
79 China 1.2
Iran 0.2
Afghanistan 0.1

via: Hue Miller



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