How big is your list of contacts? (Size does matter…)

Posted by Jim Stroud

September 3, 2006

A new study from Plaxo called “The Connected Index”, which ranks the level of connectedness between people, country by country, based on the average number of contacts in their address book. The survey, based on anonymous, aggregated data from over 10 million members, found that Argentina led the Index, with an average of 479 contacts per address book. The Argentinean average is nearly 100 contacts greater than second place Austria whose had an average of 384 colleagues, friends, family, or other contacts in their address book. The United States tied with the Dominican Republic for 29th place, with an average address book size of 293 contacts. If web-savvy and English-friendly Hong Kong is measured separately from China, Hong Kong would rise to second place with an average address book of 390 contacts.