Where in the World Am I Popular?

Subscribers to SteveSailer.net are most numerous per capita in the Anglosphere, followed by the Nordic countries.

I went public with this Substack, SteveSailer.Net, about 10+ weeks ago in early June and have seen steady growth in subscribers, both paid and free, ever since. My thanks to everybody who has signed up, especially the paid subscribers.

Substack tells me: “Steve Sailer is read across 50 US states and 80 countries.”

So, I’ve made a graph of where I have the most total subscribers (paid plus free) per capita in the world. I can only find 76 countries on Substack’s map, but I probably have a subscriber or two in some tiny nations I can’t find on the map like Bermuda, Jersey, Liechtenstein, Mauritius, or Monaco.

I need more New Zealand content to reward my avid New Zealand readers! (Or possibly to offend and lose my New Zealand readers. Who knows how this work? I’m two dozen years out of the market research business, so I certainly don’t have a clue anymore.)

Ireland, too.

Perhaps there are small sample size problems propelling New Zealand and Ireland to the top of the per capita list. But both have approaching 30 subscribers, so it’s fairly safe to say that I’m big in Aukland.

Not surprisingly, my top half dozen countries per capita are all in the Anglosphere.

Sweden as my #1 per capita country with an official language that isn’t English is hardly surprising. I’ve long had many Nordic readers from whom I’ve learned a lot. Unlike most American conservatives, whom I can recall declaring since the 1970s that the Swedish “socialist” economy (home of that paradigm of Marxism, Ikea) will no doubt collapse Real Soon Now, I try to treat the Nordic countries, with all their strengths and weaknesses, as interesting and important places that are worthy of close study.

At the other end of the list, the anti-New Zealand, is China. To my lone subscriber in China: thanks!

Am I blocked by the Great Firewall of China?

That raises the question of whether: Do I have few subscribers in China because I seldom write about China, or do I seldom write about China because I have so few subscribers there to clue me in to what’s really going on? In contrast, I have long had a number of Hong Kong readers, so I’ve learned a lot from my commenters about Hong Kong over the years.

I also have extremely few subscribers in Russia, an important country that I’d like to know more about. I have quite a few more subscribers in absolute terms in both small Serbia and Croatia than in large Russia.

In relative terms, I have very few subscribers in India, but the population is so large that it’s not bad in absolute terms.

I don’t do that well in Romance language countries, other than Portugal, Spain (which might be boosted by northern European retirees), and Romania. I like Italy and France, but they don’t much like me. Oh, well.

My particular appreciation to my one subscriber in Mauritania, who boosts my per capita figure in that Sahel country to higher than Italy’s.