How Many Caches and How Many Cachers

[+Trav'lin Two]

Been looking for info to use during an upcoming presentation I have to give. Have looked all over the Groundspeak site but haven't found what I'm looking for. Probably there someplace.

 

How many active caches are there world wide?

 

How many active cachers are there world wide?

[+Touchstone]

The website hit 2 million a couple of years ago:

 

https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2013/02/2-million-geocaches-the-infographic/

 

I'm not sure what the current number is. It used to be on the home page, but things got kind of rearranged, so I'm not sure where they keep it nowadays.

 

Groundspeak has never (to my knowledge) stated the number of registered or "active" users on the site.

[+Trav'lin Two]

The last info I have is that in Aug of '13, there was a little over 2.1 mil caches but I can't find any updates

[+Ambrosia]

Groundspeak just sent out an email a week ago that gave some great statistics.

 

GEOCACHING IN THE STATS

 

1,056,774

geocachers found at least one geocache.

 

2,420,857

geocaches were logged.

 

233,740

new geocaches were placed.

 

14,815

geocaching events occurred.

 

32,930

geocachers helped clean up the planet at CITO Events.

[+Ambrosia]

Sorry, those stats were just for 2016.

 

The email said that there are 2.7 million caches worldwide.

[+Ambrosia]

Here is a recent blog post that talks all about some of these things, and the history of geocaching. Celebrating Geocaching’s Sweet 16!

 

The odd thing, is the blog post says that there are over 2.8 million caches, and the email said just 2.7.

[+The Jester]

Premium members can just hit the magnify glass button on the search page (enter nothing) and get a total number of caches. Just now there are 2,873,261 caches.

[+Beach_hut]

When is your presentation? You might be able to get some stats and probably some other cool material to use if you email HQ?

[+HHL]

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How many active caches are there world wide?

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Have a look with the NewSearch.

 

Hans

[+OwenfromKC]

Cacherstats.com lists 393,792 cachers but that is only people with more than 200 finds. That number may tend to be currently more active. Active is a relative term.

Edited June 5, 2016 by OwenfromKC

[+cerberus1]

Cacherstats.com lists 393,792 cachers but that is only people with more than 200 finds. That number may tend to be currently more active. Active is a relative term.

I was under the impression those third-party stat sites only count those participating/contributing to them.

Is that not true?

[+AnnaMoritz]

Cacherstats.com lists 393,792 cachers but that is only people with more than 200 finds. That number may tend to be currently more active. Active is a relative term.

I was under the impression those third-party stat sites only count those participating/contributing to them.

Is that not true?

 

Cacherstats has almost all finders with more than 200 finds (with rare exeptions). 200 because they assume interest in statistcs only after finding more than a few caches. The numbers don't differ too much from project-gc's numbers:

 

country cacherstats.com project-gc.com (cachers with min. 200 finds, numbers for project-gc only if <10000) / cachers with min. 1 find in 2015 / proportion cachers2015 to cachers>200

 

1. Germany 113.960 - / 308892 / 2.71

2. USA 93.972 - / 644574 / 6.86

3. Czech Republic 28.152 - / 82568 / 2.93

4. United Kingdom 21.966 - / 132291 / 6.02

5. Netherlands 16.477 - / 57130 / 3.47

6. Canada 16.198 - / 90895 / 5.61

7. Sweden 10.483 - / 55618 / 5.31

8. France 9951 9943 / 99876 / 10.04

9. Finland 9862 9913 / 43209 / 4.38

10. Austria 8138 8088 / 27161 / 3.34

11. Belgium 7267 7251

12. Portugal 6835 6914

13. Switzerland 6816 6812

14. Australia 6252 6255

15. Norway 5151 5173

16. Denmark 4262 4155

17. Spain 2949 2937

18. Slovakia 2653 2693

19. New Zealand 1964 1949

20. Poland 1624 1662

21. Latvia 1414 1465

22. Luxemburg 869 929

23. South Africa 800 810

24. Hungary 568 573

25. Ireland 558 563

26. Japan 552 564

27. Italy 544 527

28. Lithuania 444 468

29. Slovenia 384 390

30. Estonia 205 67

31. Romania 105 104

32. Hong Kong 104 101

South Korea 81 77

Puerto Rico 78 78

Croatia 76 69

Bulgaria 63 64

Greece 53 50

China 34 20

Mexico 29 32

Thailand 26 17

Brazil 24 22

Israel 23 25

Russia 20 21

Turkey 17 18

 

other countries - 529

 

There are differences between cacherstats and pgc in determining the country of a cacher, but the sum France-Turkey is similar, 80795 compared to 80799. So 383792 seems quite realistic, even though a few are missing, I would believe <1%.

 

In areas with very few caches one can hit 200 only while traveling, so 200 might be a bit high for such areas.

 

Last year 1,917.042 cachers had found at least one cache, this is five times the number of cachers with more than 200 finds. The proportion differs significantly depending on country.

[+Trav'lin Two]

When is your presentation? You might be able to get some stats and probably some other cool material to use if you email HQ?

 

The presentation is on the 24th in Oregon so I do have a few days to wrap things up

[+noncentric]

You might find useful info on this page: https://www.geocaching.com/press/faq.aspx

 

At the bottom is a "pr" email address where you could probably reach someone to provide you with additional info.

[curlingfan11]

A lot of new cache get published each day, and some get archived, so it's really hard to keep track.

[RuideAlmeida]

During this video, Jeremy says 3 millions of caches and 5 millions geocachers.

Edited June 10, 2016 by RuideAlmeida