Accidentally (following the link in the post) I came across a resource like Kickstarter, where I noticed one project:

In no case am I going to advertise this product, especially since the fundraising campaign has been completed and quite successfully –1300 against the expected 500 ($ thousand).
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The project is quite specific and I was shocked by the number of buyers for the beginning - I never thought that there are more than 5 thousand people living on Earth who are so passionate about SDR that they are willing to pay, and not $ 15 for a fee on RTL, but $ 300 for a fairly advanced developer kit . Although, if you count, 1 set for 1.415 million inhabitants is sold, so there are not too many of these people.
But then I looked at the list of buyers, with the help of simple calculations I obtained interesting data, which I would like to present to the attention of a respected audience.
The customer list contains the name of the city and country, so we can analyze the distribution and get the following results:
Russia: population 147 million / 1.415 = 104 expected purchases, real purchases 96, of which
Moscow: population 12.3 million / 1.415 = 9 expected purchases, real purchases 34.
We obtain the SDR-isation coefficient for Russia 96/104 = 0.9 for Moscow 3.77 centralization 4.2.
Other results are calculated according to the same methodology, we will only look at the results.
In Ukraine, everything is bad 14/29 = 0.5 s 3/2 = 1.5 c = 3, which should especially please us (personally, I am not very happy, but probably I am a bad patriot).
Try to predict the world leader for this indicator, and then see how you guessed it ...
Some European states:
Russia 96/104 = 0.9 with 34/9 = 3.8 c = 4.2
Germany 216/56 = 3.85 with 18 / 2.4 = 7.5 c = 1.9
France 102/45 = 2.3 with 16/2 = 8 c = 3.5
Great Britain 213/46 = 4.6 s 23/6 = 3.8 c = 0.8
Italy 35/42 = 0.8
Poland 40/27 = 1.5 c 7 / 1.2 = 6 c = 4.0
Netherlands 74/12 = 6
Sweden 61/7 = 8.7
Switzerland 59/6 = 9.8 - here he is the leader, I am sure that you did not guess.
Let's go a little further:
Japan 53/89 = 0.6
China 101/971 = 0.1
(It is a little surprising that such a small number of purchases for the PRC are most likely those who are going to copy this fee and then sell it on the radio market in Shenzhen at a price 3 times less than all the other fellow citizens who are willing to wait 2 months)
Australia 123/17 = 7.2
Canada 103/12 = 4.1 with 12/3 = 4 c = 1.
New Zealand 22/3 = 7
But now it is time for riddles - a search for the US or the USA does not give anything that makes you think. And here is the answer - a search for Chicago gives Chicago, IL and then everything is simple - you need to set the name of the state. I was not interested in watching the population of individual states, so a short summary of IL = 27, TX = 89, MA = 53, WA = 67, AL = 11, etc.
And finally, the undoubted expected leader among the states
CA 242/27 = 8.9 is not bad, but they do not reach Sweden.
You can make your own conclusions about the degree of involvement of the Russian population (especially with the exception of the “capital of our homeland of the hero-city”) in the global SDR industry, I note that the total share of 96/5300 = 1.8% correlates well with the often found estimate of our contribution of 1.5% world economy.
That turned out to be not very funny (I don’t know how for whom, but she definitely didn’t please me) statistics. Of course, I immediately stated that a very narrow niche is being considered and the general state of affairs in electronics may differ from that considered, but the trend can be traced.