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Re: How many clarinetplayers in the world?

Author: bill28099
Date: 2009-10-07 15:08

I love these kinds of riddles. There are currently 6.7 billion people on this planet but only the top 10% can even afford a clarinet so our pool of possible players is 670,000,000. Now if I use my high school as an example there were 1250 students in the school, 100 were in band or string players and about 25 were clarinet players, or 2.0% of total student population. In the US ~ 11.7% of the population is in grades 7 through 12 and 2.0% of those are clarinet players, hence, at least .23% of the US population actively plays the clarinet. If you apply that to the world pool of possible players you get at least 2 million players (grades 7-12).

Now to that pool you must add the adults who continue to play after graduating from high school. Here is a good question. Out of 88 members of our band I'm the only one I know who currently is still playing but that is subject to a huge margin of error so let us assume that 2% of the kids who play in school continue to play as adults. Further, at least 75% of the population is over the age of 18, i.e., no longer in school. Hence, we have .0046% of the adult population plays the clarinet which world wide nets you another 23,000. Likely way less then the margin of error of this study.

So if I have to take a guess I'll say there are ~2,000,000 active clarinet players on planet earth. How many in the universe, only God knows.

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