Second Life Stats
This document has visualized & analyzed the data
provided by Linden Lab on 2/2/2007. Please double
check all data in case any errors were made.
I am not perfect.

Overview
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Total hours used by all residents
January 2007
10,817,668 hrs
September 2003
51,699 hrs
Hours Used

Land size (km2)
1,500
1,125
750
375
0
Mainland
Islands
Total Land (km2)
Notes:
10/31/2006 11/30/2006 A region is 65,536 sqm
A private island region costs either $195 per month or $295 per month depending upon when it was bought
Mainland pricing ranges from $3 per 1000 sqm to $10 per 1000 sqm
12/31/2006 1/31/2007 A km2 equals 1,000,000 sqm
Manhattan Island is approximately 60 km2

L$ user to user transactions
User to User Transactions
6,500,000,000
January 2007
L$ 6,067,902,049
4,875,000,000
3,250,000,000
1,625,000,000
December 2005
0
L$ 1,052,133,319

Currency exchanged
January 2007 January 2007
$5,000,000
$1,341,270,320
$3,750,000
$1,005,952,740
$2,500,000
$670,635,160
$1,250,000
$335,317,580
12/05
12/05
$0
L Exchanged US$ Exchanged

Currency trading
200,000
1/07
150,000
100,000
May ’06 - Second Life
50,000 graces the cover of
05/06
Business Week. I would
have thought there would
12/05 have been a bigger jump
0 in currency trading in
May/June of 06 b/c of
this.
Buy Sell

Population snapshot
3,500,000.000
2,916,666.667 Country % of Residents
United States 31.19%
2,333,333.333
France 12.73%
1,750,000.000
Germany 10.46%
1,166,666.667 United Kingdom 8.09%
583,333.333 Netherlands 6.55%
Spain 3.83%
0
Brazil 3.77%
Unique Total Registrants
Canada 3.30%
Belgium 2.63%
Age % of Active The top 3 countries
Italy 1.93%
accounting for over 50%
13-17 1.24%
of the active users speak
18-24 27.46% Australia 1.48%
3 totally different
languages; English,
25-34 38.79% French and German.
How is communication
35-44 21.00%
hindered in-world?
45+ 11.52%

M/F vs. time
January 2007
65.00%
June 2005
48.75%
September 2003
32.50%
16.25%
Interesting tidbit on this
slide:
0% What occured in June 2005
Female Male that brought the gender so
close together?
Then something opposite
occurred....

The end.
You can find the raw data available from Linden Lab at:
http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/02/09/state-of-the-virtual-world-%e2%80%93-key-metrics-january-2007/#more-747
Please do not hesitate to contact me regarding this PDF
Compiled by Darren Herman (www.darrenherman.com) on February 9, 2007