Calculating how much Santa Claus will work on Christmas Eve will be like this

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Christmas is December 25th. On the night before that, Santa Claus will deliver gifts to children in various places on Christmas Eve. However, it is not very human being to deal with overnight to children who do not know how many people are in the world. How does Santa Claus realize this?

Santa's Christmas Eve Workload, Calculated - Philip Bump - Technology - The Atlantic

I challenged this questionThe Atlantic. First of all, as a definition, "As a child of a 14-year-old Christian who can receive a present from Santa Claus", we will distinguish how many Christian children live in which region and longitude in which country. The problem is that there are no countries, etc., that emit demographics based on longitude. This problem was calculated using CIA's data on the population by age and population by faith, so we managed to calculate using the population distribution of young people and the population density of Christians.

as a result,Children who receive gifts for Christmas are 526, 85500It turned out that it was. As mentioned above, this is the number of children who satisfied the condition "being Christian" "under 14 years old". In other words,Santa Claus has to give gifts to 22 million people per hour on Christmas Eve. It is 365,000 people per minute, if it is seconds it is 6,100 people.

Philip Bump thought out the following distribution method.

Santa's deliveries, by time zone. | ​​Flickr - Photo Sharing!

As a way of thinking, "Santa Claus is going to distribute gifts to children in order from the east". The number on the left represents the value of a thin yellow bar, the number on the right represents the value of a thick orange bar, the upper graph is the number of children, and the lower graph is time.


The number falling under the graph is the time difference divided into 24. How about actually Santa Claus going around ...

First of all, we started from GMT + 12 region, New Zealand. There are 728,906 children who receive gifts in this area, which is 44.5% of the children in the whole area. 0.1% if it is proportion among children who receive gifts all over the world. We finish distributing Santa Claus here in two minutes.


Next I will go to GMT + 11, Solomon Islands and so on. Here we distribute gifts to about 180,000 children in 30 seconds.


Next I moved to GMT + 10 and GMT + 9.5 Australia etc. Here, a total of nearly 4.5 million children are waiting for Santa, so we will give out the present over 12 minutes and 30 seconds.


Santa going further west. Distribute gifts to approximately 4.8 million people in the GMT + 9 region including Japan. Because I'm staying for 13 minutes, I can not deny that there are many children who have never seen Santa Claus.


GMT + 8 area including Philippines with many Christians. Because there are over 42 million here, I will stay 1 hour 56 minutes.


As the area around GMT + 4 is Middle Eastern countries such as Iran, there are few Christians and the number of children receiving gifts is small for the size of the land. Even in the whole area, the number of Christian children is very small, 2.5% or 1%.


The most time-consuming area is GMT + 1 area including Europe and Africa. Distribute gifts to 98 million children over 4 hours 29 minutes.


In the GMT-4 region including Brazil and others, nearly 90% of the children are Christians.


Santa Claus who went around the earth finishes his journey in Samoa, GMT - 11.


Below are the different color-coded maps depending on how much we should distribute this trip in an hour. Santa travels a lot since the targeted child is few in the wide part, but because there are many children to be distributed in the narrow part, it is hard to go forward.


By the way, not all Christians celebrate Christmas on December 25th, for example in Russia, Georgia, Ukraine on 7th January we celebrate Christmas. Also, as in Japan, there are cases like celebrating Christmas even if it is not a Christian (getting a Christmas gift).

If you do not distribute gifts to 6100 people per second, how much Santa Claus must be a superman, and what reindeer who has to pay around 500 million gifts and go around the earth in 24 hours is what monster Is it ... ?.