[PW] Total Number of Households

[Brian Whatcott]

At 08:03 AM 6/26/2008, you wrote:
>Hello,
>I'm looking for the total number of households in the world (by region),
>and who knew it would so difficult to find? I've tried the UN, the OECD,
>the international database of the US Census, and even the World Bank. It
>was easy to find the total number of households in the US (thank you,
>Dept. of Commerce!) but I'm not sure where I should go next to find
>global numbers. I'm finding out that it's not really population data I'm
>looking for, and I keep finding figures for the number of people that
>make up a household per country instead of what I need.
>Can anyone help?
>
>TIA,
>
>Namiko Suga
>
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>
>

Ah! I see it is time for the Department of Sweeping Generalizations
to spring into action. This publication [below] notes the household size
varies from 5.6 for North Africa and the Near East to
4.8 in Latin America.    These estimates are intended to size the
developing nations.
  <http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/wp/144.pdf>

The first world countries have largely exchanged (comparitive)
  wealth and longevity for fecundity, so their households are settling
towards  a size of  4.1

The World population was given as 6,602,224,175 for July 2007
and 6,704,845,726 for June 21 2008

I therefore sense that best estimates of world wide household capitation
will be in the range of 1,343,656,458 +/-  81,234,567 for a particular
time frame, which is:   2 pm GMT June 26th 2008, increasing
exponentially.
   Extension of these data by region is left as an exercise.

You are welcome.

Dir Gen: Dept Sw Gen:


Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka!