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Countries with the most membership change

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I saw an interesting discussion on LinkedIn asking about what areas experienced the most membership growth — or loss.  I modified my club type script and ran it against the 2009-10 data, and got some interesting data.

First, to no great surprise, the country with the greatest loss was Haiti, down 323 members (net change, July 1, 2009, to June 30, 2010).  Not far after that was Taiwan (down 166), Netherland Antilles (down 47), and Kuwait (down 29).

The biggest gains were United States with 1,962 members (net increase), Canada (up 1,079 members), India (920 members, no surprise there!), China (881 members), Australia (620), and Malaysia (481).

Within the US, Virginia had the biggest net membership loss (down 197 members), Alabama (down 116), and Indiana (down 103).  The biggest increases were California (up 1,962 members!), Texas (up 1,219), Florida (up 935), New York (up 766), and Illinois (up 504).

Here’s a graphic showing the data — brighter green is more total members added in 2009-10 (NOT adjusted for population!).

More Toastmasters maps

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Here’s another map comparing the number of Toastmasters clubs in a state to the population.  Darker green means more clubs per 100,000 residents.  Interestingly, Minnesota (and generally the northwest USA) has the highest density of clubs, while the southeast has the lowest.  West Virginia has the lowest number of clubs per capita, and Kentucky and Maine are close behind.

This is as of 2007 census data, and July 2010 club data.  Unfortunately, census data for other countries is hard to get (not included with MapPoint anyway).

Mapping out Toastmasters

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Here’s some interesting maps showing how strong the DCP is by country, state, or province for several regions of interest.  The darker green, the higher average DCP score for each club in 2009-10.  Click on a map for full size.

US/Canada by state/province (Nevada and Quebec have the best-performing clubs, Wyoming and Vermont the most opportunity for improvement):

Europe (UK and Scotland are the strongest):

Australia by state (Northern Territory may seem strongest, but they only have two clubs!):

Southern Africa by country (District 74):

South Africa by province:

This was done using Microsoft MapPoint 2010, very interesting tool!