Metrics

In December 2006 Linden Labs began offering economic metrics on the Second Life website. This data is restricted to SL residents.

In February 2007 Linden Labs increased the number of data points available and began offering this in spreadsheet here.

Population

Report Date	Last 7	Last 14	Last 30	Last 60	Total
2007-03-16	411,745	612,262	1,041,102	1,639,252	4,680,948
2007-03-02	462,377	661,961	1,038,267	1,518,394	4,208,259
2007-02-16	345,876	520,019	837,760	1,195,222	3,659,699
2007-02-09	326,483	487,651	787,693	1,122,586	3,423,414

Land

Land Size

Calendar	Date Mainland
1/31/2007	102.72
2/31/2006	87.35
11/30/2006	84.59
10/31/2006	83.97

Notes:

A region is 65,536 sqm A private island region costs either $195 per month or $295 per month depending upon when it was bought Mainland pricing ranges from $3 per 1000 sqm to $10 per 1000 sqm A km2 equals 1,000,000 sqm Manhattan Island is approximately 60 km2 Publised starting in February 2007.

Land Sales by Resident

2007-02-09

Month	Total Square Meters Sold by Residents
March 2007 - MTD	37,482,384
February 2007	61,886,272
January 2007	46,087,808
December 2006	?
November 2006	?

Land for Sale Today

Date	Residents	Parcels
2007-03-16	4,125	21,206
2007-03-02	3,680	16,273
2007-02-16	3,344	14,141
2007-02-09	3,213	13,603

The expanded column headings from the above table are

Date the information a gloamed from the SL website Residents With Parcels for Sale Total Parcels For Sale Total Square Meters for Sale

Islands Added

Month	Total Islands Owned
March 2007 - MTD	5096	633
February 2007 - MTD	4,463
January 2007	3,889

Square Meters Auctioned

This is a significant metric in measuring the health of the SL land economy. Land is auctioned when the land owner fails to make Tier payments and occaisionlly, when new sims are added to the mainland and LL does not feel the need to make First Land available to qualifying residents.

There are a finite number of reason why land would become available for auction

The owner inadvertently selects to abandon land using the About Land box. The owner intentionally selects to abandon land using the About Land box. The billing information for the parcel owner's account is incorrect or does not allow the Tier billing to post The parcel owner cancel's their SL account. The normal course of action for a person who no longer wanted to play SL, but had significant land holdings would be to sell \ transfer them. If they cannot sell them before the next Tier payment is due, then one reason would be that they were asking too much.

Therefore its reasonable to assume that the Square Meters Auctioned metric is another indication of inflated land prices in SL.

Month
2007 March - MTD
2007 February
2007 January

Linden Dollars

Lindex Rate

Date Recorded	Average
2007-03-16	L$268.9876 / US$1.00
2007-03-02	L$269.1925 / US$1.00
2007-02-16	L$268.3733 / US$1.00
2007-02-09	L$268.9049 / US$1.00

Total L$ Supply

Total L$ Supply (L$):

Date Recorded	L$
2007-03-16	1,940,946,658
2007-03-02	1,941,405,173
2007-02-16	1,732,523,055
2007-02-09	1,710,330,058

Estimated In World Business Owners

The Positive Monthly Linden Dollar Flow (PMLF) is a complete misnomer. From the SL website "PMLF (Positive Monthly Linden Flow) looks at the flow of Linden Dollars into a unique user's account BEFORE Linden Lab Charges are applied to the account."

Residents who support Tier above the numbers here would still be net contributors to Linden Labs.

Month	<10	10-50	50-100	100-200	200-500	500-1K	1K-2K	2K-5K	>5K
FEB 2007	13,490	6,625	1,690	1,289	1,165	496	283	211	116
JAN	11,396	5,671	1,489	1,119	1,018	386	263	188	97
DEC	9,000	4,535	1,239	921	823	350	229	140	90
NOV	7,098	3,592	1,010	797	671	289	179	94	58
OCT	6,285	3,402	866	692	563	263	160	92	41
SEP	5,180	2,770	760	566	524	228	125	77	37
AUG	4,754	2,641	684	507	489	192	117	75	36

< $10 USD $10 to $50 USD $50 to $100 USD $100 to $200 USD $200 to $500 USD $500 to $1,000 USD $1,000 to $2,000 USD $2,000 to $5,000 USD > $5,000 USD Total Unique Users with PMLF