Medicare Enrollment

December 7, 2011 — The Editors

Medicare Enrollment stats

Today is the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Today is also the final day of the Medicare annual election period. Only one of these topics lends itself to a market size post. Worth noting—and by way of tying these two things together a little—is the fact that anyone (now an American citizen) who was around on the day that Pearl Harbor was attacked, is now eligible for Medicare.

Today’s market size is the number of people enrolled in the Medicare health insurance system in the United States in 2010. The graphic provides data on enrollment from 1970 to 2010 and shows how this population relates to the total U.S. population over this period.

Geographic reference: United States
Year: 2010
Market size: 47.2 million
Source: “Table I.1 Medicare Enrollment Trends,” part of the statistical offerings on the federal government’s CMS web site here.
Original source: Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. Department of Human Health and Services
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Visitors to Midtown Detroit

July 28, 2011 — The Editors

In recent years, Midtown Detroit has seen an economic revival. The area is a major destination for visitors to Detroit. The number one destination is the main branch of the Detroit Public Library, followed by The Detroit Institute of Arts across the street. Data show the annual number of visitors.

Geographic ref.: Midtown Detroit, Michigan
Year: 2010
Market Size: Nearly 1.9 million people
Source: Doug McInnis, “Talk of the Town: Midtown Detroit Undergoes an Economic Revival,” Wayne State, July 2011, pages 10-19
Original Source: University Cultural Center Association.
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Crude Oil Supply

May 13, 2011 — The Editors

Based on report recently issued by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the supply of crude oil for U.S. energy needs, from all sources, is anticipated to decline between 2009 and 2025. On a per capita basis this decline is rather large, 15.3%. This is because the population is projected to increase by 16.4% between 2009 and 2025 while the supply of crude oil is forecast to decline by 1.39%. Obviously, new sources of petroleum supply will be (are) in high demand, not to mention all other forms of energy.

Today’s market size is the daily supply in millions of barrels per day (mbpd) of crude oil in the United States, for 2009 and projected for 2025.

Geographic reference: United States
Year: 2009 and 2025
Market size: In 2009, 14.33 mbpd and in 2025, 14.13 mbpd
Source: “Table C4. Liquid Fuel Supply and Disposition,” Annual Energy Outlook 2011, with Projections to 2035, page 175, April 2011, available online here.
Original Source: U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration

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Catholic Population

March 9, 2011 — The Editors

For this Ash Wednesday market size post, we looked up the size of the worldwide Catholic population, presented below. According to the source, half of all Catholics (49.4%) live in the Americas, a region of the world that contains about 14% of total world population.

Geographic reference: World
Year: 2009
Market size: 1.181 Billion.
Source: “World Catholic population growing; mixed results on priestly, religious vocations,” CatholicCulture.org, February 21, 2011, available online here.
Original Source: Annuario Pontifico, 2011 edition, The Vatican.

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Midwives in the United States

November 24, 2010 — The Editors

In honor of a friend of ours, on her birthday, we thought we’d post a market size about the number of births in the United States that are attended to by midwives. Many people believe that midwives deliver primarily babies born outside of hospitals but this is not true. The vast majority of the births attended to by midwives (96.7%) are hospital births. Overall, in 2006—the most recent year for which data are available—off the total number of births registered in the United States, 8.7% were attended to by a midwife. In Europe, by way of comparison, that percentage tends to be in the 75% range. Our friend, she is midwife practicing at a hospital in France.

Geographic reference: United States
Year: 2006
Market size: Births attended by a Midwife in the United States, 336,347 or 8.7% of all registered births
Source: “Trends and Characteristics of Home and Other Out-of-Hospital Births in the United States, 1990-2006,” National Vital Statistics Report, Volume 58, Number 1, March 3, 2010, available online here.
Original source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics

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Muslim Population

November 17, 2010 — The Editors

Today is Eid al Adha, an important Muslim holiday which marks the end of Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. The name of this holiday is usually translated as “Festival of Sacrifice”. With a nod of recognition of this holiday we look today at the size of the muslim population worldwide. We have always used the term “market” quite broadly on this site, measuring everything from the size of the market for cement to the size of the voting population and the size of the demand for pumpkins, jack-o-lanterns, and candy around Halloween.

The population size presented here is taken from a Pew Research Center report which provides a great deal of interesting information about Muslims around the word. A link to that report is provided in the source note below.

Geographic reference: World
Year: 2009
Market size: 1.57 Billion
Source: “Mapping the Global Muslim Population; A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World’s Muslim Population,” The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, October 7, 2009, available online here.
Original source: Pew Research Center

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Veteran Population

November 11, 2010 — The Editors

Military Population

The number of military veterans in the United States is our focus on this Veterans Day.

The chart we present here shows three population figures over more than a half century: Active Duty Military, Military Veterans, and the overall population, by way of comparison. The veterans population is shown as the dark blue columns along the bottom of the chart.

We offer our sincere thanks to all those who have served—or are serving—this country in one of our military branches.

Geographic reference: United States
Year: 1980 and 2008
Market size: 28.6 Million and 23.2 Million respectively
Source: Statistical Abstract of the United States, editions 1980, 1990 and 2010. Recent editions are available online here.
Original Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census

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Registered Voter Population

November 2, 2010 — The Editors

On election day we look back to the last national election day to measure the size of the voting population in the United States. Worth noting is the fact that 2010 is a congressional election year but not a presidential election year. Throughout our history, voter turnout is higher in presidential election years than in midterm election years.

Geographic reference: United States
Year: 2008
Market size: Number of voting age citizens: 206.1 Million
Market size: Number of registered voters: 146.3 Million
Market size: Number of people who actually voted: 131.1 Million or 63.7% of citizens of voting age and 89.7% of the registered voter population.
Source: “Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2008″, Current Population Reports, May 2010, [Online] here. This is a most interesting report, full of details about the voting age population in 2008, measured and assessed by a number of demographic aspects: age; educational attainment level; race; ethnicity; gender, etc.
Original Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census

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