SL Facts

Review of 2006

PERMANENT RESIDENTS
236,562 (Residents who logged in at least once in the last 60 days)

AVERAGE AGE
3.6 months (Skews young due to high birthrate; oldest living resident: 4.5 years)

AVERAGE TIME SPENT IN-WORLD
40 hours per month

MAJOR ETHNIC GROUPS
Blingtards, Elves, Furries, Geeks, Goreans, Goths, mechas, Steampunks, grad students looking for a grant project

MAJOR CRIME CATEGORIES
Pushgun assaults, retail fraud, cyberterrorism, mafia racketeering

TOTAL AREA
About 83 square miles, growing daily

LANDOWNERS
16,908

AVERAGE PRICE PER SQUARE METER OF LAND, SECONDARY MARKET
L$6

LOCAL CURRENCY
Linden dollar (L$); convertible to $US at secondlife.com/currency

EXCHANGE RATE
L$309 : US$1

ECONOMY
Free market

COMPATIBILITY
Windows XP, windows 2000, and mac 0s X (Linux client in alpha)

TAXATION
Caste-based: Basic accounts pay no monthly fee; Premium accounts pay US$9.95 per month and up, receive L$400 stipend per week

MONTHLY TRANSACTION VOLUME
L$1.93 billion.

Travel Advisory: Second Life is a rapidly expanding and mutating world. Stats true as of August 2006.

Data reproduced from Wired magazine - October 2006