This is a follow-up to my post about the Penetration Rate for Hive. Today instead of looking at countries and ranking them, I would like to examine a handful of cities and provinces where Hive appears to have a particular foothold.
The 15% penetration rate idea implies that, just as Facebook did in the early days of social networks, Hive should focus on reaching high penetration rates in a few smaller communities. For Facebook that was University campuses, for Hive it may be some cities where Hive has the potential to be particularly useful or attractive. If we can find even smaller communities, on the scale of University campuses where Hive is a perfect fit, then that can be even better.
Using the data collected for the Hive Power World Map of active users in March and their locations, I can rank particular locations to identify where we have clusters of users in a small location, eg. a city or province. I can then run another SQL query to count how many active users we have there, and use the same multiplier as in my previous post to estimate our full userbase there. Dividing that userbase by the cities metropolitan population (or of the full province), we get the local penetration rate.
These are the locations that stand out initially:
Caracas, capitol of Venezuela
Lagos, largest city in Nigeria
Aceh, province of Indonesia
Cumaná, city in Venezuela
Aragua, province in Venezuela including city of Maracay
Isla de Margarita, province in Venezuela.
Cebu, city in Philippines
I will also add Havana, capitol of Cuba, because in the last post it was shown that Cuba has the second highest penetration rate among countries.
Below are the estimated userbases in each of the top Hive cities/provinces, followed by the penetration rate once the local population is accounted for.
As we can see, Cumaná stands out even among cities with a high penetration rate for Hive. Initially I thought that this might be just because I am using an outdated population figure - however as best as I can tell it is likely that in the years since the last census, the population has declined rather than increased due to the Venezuelan migration crisis, so if anything the real penetration rate could be even higher.
Credit to @omarrojas, @omarcitorojas and many others who have worked to promote Hive in the region.
Cebu, Philippines also stands out as the highest penetration rate among anywhere outside of Venezuela.
Lagos, despite having a very large Hive community, does not have an especially high penetration rate and appears to be ranking highly primarily because of the sheer population of the city. It is expected to become the most populous city in the world by 2100.
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The @hivesucre team is doing a fantastic job. We have a series of events this week, hopefully we'll take those numbers higher. Let's gooo!
How nice @demotruk that you highlight where I live the city of Cumaná in Venezuela, where we even have HiverSucre at the level of our Sucre state in Venezuela, as in many places Hive grows every day. Success and thanks for your visits to my publications, I generally dedicate myself to doing Yoga. Successes
Totally grateful for the mention, here in Cumaná state Sucre Venezuela, every day that passes the promotion of Hive becomes more intense and we are working for it, in fact we have already confirmed the community @hivesucre, being the first state of Venezuela that has community as such. Greetings and we are active.
Wow que bonito saber que mi ciudad forma parte importante de éste gran movimiento. Se vienen nuevos tiempos en el mundo. Hive de seguro estará presente.
Lagos had a formidable penetration rate back in the steem days, but those guys are gone now, to the next shiny thing. But we now have a more stable hive population in other places in Nigeria. So I think the population has now been shared to cities like Abuja, Port Harcourt, Kaduna and Ibadan. The Lagos dominance seems to have dissipate. People are also moving out of Lagos to these cities because of high Cost of living.
Port Harcourt seems to be particularly ahead.
Exactly, I thought as much as well. It wasn't like that in the past.
Hive is growing faster in some of the poorer parts of the world, but then people can make a real difference to their income in those places. I know some of the big players are mainly interested in those who will invest a lot, but I love that it can really change lives.
If we can reach some critical mass then it can really take off in those areas. Word of mouth and personal recommendation count for a lot. I do not see it as a problem if English is not the main language here. Translation tools make language less of a barrier.
I live in multan pakistan. The way you shared this detail that you are getting many people using it inside Pakistan. Earlier people here didn't understand this technology but now they understand. This is my effort to bring all my friends on this platform. Thanks for sharing this valuable detail with us.
That's pretty cool that the Philippines got on the list. And amazing work with recruiting in venezuela.
Rate because of cumana is very high but here is a little question that how you figure out all these statistics of hive?? If i want to do all these statistics than can i also do this or not??
Yes, you can. You may need to learn SQL if you don't know it already.
https://hivesql.io/
Actually I'm a new on hive but it seems interesting to know about all these statistics especially how many people using hive and how many are active and many others??
I love these statistics and chart-based posts showing Hive usage. Keep it up! It is nice and encouraging to see that real organic growth is taking place. Would you be interested in maintaining a month-over-month comp as well? It would be interesting to see how Hive penetration has changed with these cities in Venezuela mentioned (as well as Cuba) since I'm commenting on this 3 months after origin!
I will come back to this topic again, but I don't think I will do it that regularly because I have to do a fair bit of manual work cleaning up data whenever I deal with locations (since users can write absolutely anything in that field).
Understandable! I guess any sort of metrics showcasing adoption and penetration rates is just helpful with keeping up morale and elevating the position of Hive in the global blockchain space
yes brother it is great to see how in #Venezuela a great work is carried out to promote #Hive everywhere thanks @HiveSucre in many more cities work has been done to take us to the next level and be accepted both by $hive and $hbd how form of payment in several establishments
Amazing
From the statistics and charts you provided, it appears that the estimated number of Hive users in the city of Cumana, Venezuela is very high.
Oh! I am glad to see Cebu City in the list of cities with high userbase and penetration rate. I wonder what Manila and Quezon City are doing?
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I seem to remember a story about shoes, where targeting areas where people had no shoes was the done thing 🤔
Long as we get the hive buzz going ...
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Go Cebu City!
I also hope to see Dasmariñas City in the graph.
It is very good to know about the growth of this platform in different locations. It is very important for the success of every platform that more and more people should know about it and take interest in it.