3,000,000 Observers!
This week, we achieved a significant milestone on iNaturalist: passing 3 million observers!
A crucial 5%
While it might not appear so at first glance, the observer community on iNaturalist actually represents a small percentage of the total audience. For instance, this March, approximately 4.5 million people visited the iNaturalist website or used the iNaturalist or Seek mobile apps. Out of these, 600k (13%) had iNaturalist accounts, and only 245k people (~5%) posted observations.
Mapping observers
The maps show the location of first observations for a sample of about 15% of all observers around the globe. About 60% of all observers are in North America. In contrast, South America has about 6% of all observers.
Europe has the second largest number of observers followed by Asia. Africa has the least number of observers of any continent except Antarctica with most observers in the southern part of the continent.
Outsized Oceania
With an area of around 8.5M square kilometers, Oceania is the smallest continent. But it has an outsized number of observers thanks to the active observer communities in Australia and New Zealand.
Thank you!
If you're one of these 3 million observers, thank you for helping us reach this milestone! And if you'd like to join the even smaller, crucial group of iNaturalist supporters (0.05%), you can become one by clicking the link below!