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How large is the congress? What nations are under/over-represented? How strong is the Esperanto culture? Are there a lot of language dweebs or is it mostly peop
by fusiongyro 9y ago
How large is the congress? What nations are under/over-represented? How strong is the Esperanto culture? Are there a lot of language dweebs or is it mostly people who buy the vision? Is it growing?
- chillacy 9y ago1129 participants this year. The top 5 represented countries are: 1. S. Korea - 242 2. Japan - 186 3. China - 114 4. France - 85 5. Germany - 36 There's a pretty long tail of 61 countries this year. (they published stats in the kongresa libro - congress book) I find that most esperantists are europeans. The euorpean congresses tend to also be the biggest. Culturally, there seems to be an age gap. The older generation (of which there are a lot of, I'd say the majority for sure are over 50) tends to be more into people who buy into the vision of world peace and inter-cultural communication. The younger crowd tends to be a mixture of world-travelers, language nerds, programmers, kids of esperantists, and people looking for a subculture to latch on to. Not sure if it's growing, attendance seems to vary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Esperanto_Congress#/media/File:Attendance_At_Each_Universala_Kongreso_1905-2015.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Esperanto_Congress#/medi...