Two days after the PC launch of Angry Birds Seasons Rovio posted a great video on YouTube to announce its latest milestone: 500 million downloads worldwide! You can watch the video below.
Let’s run through some of the statistics listed in the video.
That’s just mind-boggling. But to give it some perspective, roughly 1 out of every 14 people on the planet have downloaded an Angry Birds app.
Again, by perspective, Apple’s AppStore is openly available in 102 countries, that I can find. Angry Birds is the #1 app in over 77% of “Apple-applicable” countries
On average, each person on Earth has played 38 levels, which is more than Chapter 1 of Poached Eggs.
By comparison, bird experts (as in ornithologists, not manu malin) estimate the aviary population of the world to be around 100 billion birds.
There are roughly 200 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, so for every 4 or 5 stars in the Galaxy, a user has earned a star in Angry Birds.
That’s over 570 years of gameplay each day. By comparison, the Blarney Stone was set into the Blarney Castle (Country Cork, Ireland) in 1446 — 565 years ago.
By comparison, the earliest Homo sapiens that are known originated in east Africa at most 200,000 years ago.