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About 15 years ago Model Railroader shared some of the results of a survey they commissioned (no doubt for their own planning purposes, and nothing wrong with that). Don't remember the exact issue, but they estimated at that time about 200,000 "active" U.S. modellers - people who had a layout, worked on a club layout, or were actively assembling models. I concur with Rick Nicholson: Germany / Switzerland / Austria undoubtedly has the highest number of active model railroaders per capita. I believe that the UK (where I lived for seven years) also has more active model railroaders per capita than the U.S., though not as high as Germanic region. My impression, though, is that the hobby is rarely practiced in the rest of Europe. Japan is hard to gauge: model railroad models are popular, I think owning them is more common than in the U.S., but active modelling? Its my impression that the Japanese are much more likely to stick to pre-assembled and ready-to-run, and use Kato track for temporary set-ups. In any event, add a few more Commonwealth countries (Canada, Australia, New Zealand) to the list and I bet you cover 99.9% of all model railroaders.
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