15 Jul 2011 at 17:48 | Published by: JJM | Views: 14175 | News search

Map of the world.  (Photo by CIA 2011, Public Domain)

According to the latest statistics, World Minigolfsport Federation has 16,037 officially registered, active competition players in 31 countries and 4 continents.

16,037 worldwide
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Europe:
    13,391 players
    in 23 countries
Asia:
    1,478 players
    in 6 countries
South America:
    840 players
    in 1 country
North America:
    328 players
    in 1 country
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5060 Germany
2387 Sweden
1962 Austria
1101 Iran
840 Mexico
754 Portugal
641 Switzerland
446 Italy
404 Netherlands
345 Czech Republic
328 USA (not including PPA)
198 Great Britain
183 Russia
147 Finland
146 Denmark
131 Slovakia
124 Hungary
122 Belgium
110 Japan
107 Taiwan
80 France
74 China
62 India
52 Luxembourg
47 Liechtenstein
42 Poland
42 Romania
38 Norway
24 Latvia
24 Thailand
16 Slovenia
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0 Australia
0 Canada
0 Cyprus
0 Estonia
0 Moldova
0 New Zealand
0 Serbia
0 Singapore
0 Ukraine

WMF expects to add three new member countries at the Delegates Conference in Stockholm, Sweden on 21 August 2011: Croatia, Israel, and Turkey. Other new interested countries, which are not ready for full WMF membership yet, are Ireland, Kosovo, Mongolia, Pakistan and Spain.

However, some current WMF member countries have lost all minigolf competition activity in recent years (as can be seen in the statistics above). WMF will have to cancel the membership of some countries in future, for example these countries, which no more have any competition players or contact persons who would continue discussions with WMF: Australia, Cyprus, Moldova, New Zealand, Singapore, and Ukraine. Also some previously interested registrar countries need to be cancelled, for the same reason: Brazil, Nigeria, and South Africa.

The balance of these expected changes in WMF member countries is slightly on the negative side: three new member countries coming in, six current member countries going away in near future, and three more member countries no longer have any competition activity. Five new interested registrars coming in, and three current registrars going away.

» more info: documents for WMF Delegates Conference 2011 in Stockholm

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