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Pete L writes:
Anybody have an idea how many people are employed worldwide directly
as forecasters? My guess is 200-400k

I just need a ball park figure to use in a talk.......

I was wondering how you arrived at that figure. Depending a bit on your
definition of "forecaster", I would have thought that the number in the
UK would only be in the hundreds rather than the thousands. There are of
the order of a couple of hundred countries in the world, but the less
developed ones are likely to have comparatively few forecasters. OTOH,
the US - in particular - will have a lot more than the UK. My own guess
for the worldwide figure would be in the region of 50k, but I wouldn't
be surprised if that turned out to be an overestimate.
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