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1129 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
by chillacy 9y ago
1129 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...