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Amateur Radio Licenses World Map

Countries Resized Relative to the Number of Amateur Radio Licenses

This amateur radio world map resizes the countries based on the number of licensed operators. The data comes from the IARU (International Amateur Radio Union). I was able to create this map with the assistance of the folks at SHOW/Mappingworld.

The table below shows the top 100 countries by ham radio population.

Rank	Country	Amateur Radio Licenses
1	Japan	1296059
2	USA	679864
3	Thailand	141241
4	RO Korea	141000
5	Germany	79666
6	Chinese Taipei	68692
7	Spain	58700
8	UK	58426
9	Canada	44024
10	Russia	38000
11	Brazil	32053
12	Italy	30000
13	Indonesia	27815
14	France	18500
15	Ukraine	17265
16	Argentina	16889
17	Poland	16000
18	Australia	15328
19	Netherlands	14529
20	Sweden	10817
21	India	10679
22	Venezuela	10600
23	Denmark	10060
24	Hungary	9000
25	Czech Rep.	7086
26	Mexico	7059
27	Chile	7054
28	Slovenia	6500
29	Colombia	6500
30	Austria	6214
31	South Africa	6000
32	Finland	5900
33	Switzerland	5500
34	New Zealand	5464
35	Norway	5302
36	Belgium	5295
37	Paraguay	5085
38	Bulgaria	4950
39	Portugal	4200
40	Philippines	4000
41	Uruguay	3980
42	Romania	3500
43	Peru	3080
44	Greece	2952
45	Dominicana	2354
46	Panama	2024
47	Ecuador	2006
48	Cuba	1870
49	Bosnia	1758
50	Ireland	1658
51	Hong Kong	1508
52	Croatia	1410
53	Bolivia	1385
54	Belarus	1359
55	Israel	1225
56	Turkey	1200
57	Estonia	1000
58	Costa Rica	937
59	Slovakia	930
60	Lithuania	810
61	China	800
62	El Salvador	703
63	FYR Macedonia	620
64	Cyprus	578
65	Nicaragua	564
66	Luxembourg	525
67	Cote d'Ivoire	500
68	Malta	470
69	Trinidad	445
70	Morocco	391
71	Guatemala	386
72	Malaysia	381
73	Yugoslavia	354
74	Honduras	298
75	Pakistan	214
76	Lebanon	205
77	Sri Lanka	200
78	Moldova	192
79	Latvia	190
80	Tanzania	173
81	Fr. Polynesia	172
82	Grenada	168
83	Nigeria	158
84	Barbados	150
85	Iceland	140
86	Jordan	133
87	New Caledonia	130
88	Kuwait	126
89	Haiti	100
90	Zimbabwe	96
91	PNG	95
92	Singapore	95
93	Andorra	94
94	Oman	94
95	Suriname	93
96	Montserrat	92
97	Faroe Is.	90
98	Bermuda	90
99	Namibia	88
100	Jamaica	84