The Archive · 1938

World's Listeners

According to statistics, the United States still heads the list in respect of the number of radio receivers used in the country. There is one wireless set to every four citizens. Great Britain, Denmark and Sweden follow in the proportion of one to five; Belgium, one to six; Germany, one to seven; Switzerland, one to eight: and France, one to nine head of population. In Czechoslovakia only one person in thirteen is a registered licence holder; Finland, one in fourteen; Lithuania, one in sixteen; Hungary, one in 22; Japan, one in 27; Poland, one in fifty; Rumania, one in 72; Portugal, one in 88; and Jugoslavia, one in 114 inhabitants.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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