How Many Stamps Were Issued Between 1840 and 1940? Part 2

When I was making my count of stamps in the 2007 Scott Classics catalog, I kept the totals in an Excel spreadsheet. Not to let this go to waste, I'm doing some sorts on the data that may be of interest.

Here are the top 25 countries ordered by number of stamps issued between 1840 and 1940. This count includes all of the various types of stamps in the Scott catalog, regardless of whether they are represented in the "Blue" International. Please do not place too much trust in the totals--for reasons outlined in the Part 1 of this post, I would expect these counts to be off by a percentage point or two.

2523 UNITED STATES
1656 COLOMBIA
1464 NICARAGUA
1409 HUNGARY
1296 TURKEY
1238 SPAIN
1197 MEXICO
1126 SALVADOR, EL
1034 IRAN
1027 AUSTRIA
996 RUSSIA
982 BELGIUM
957 ARGENTINE REPUBLIC
937 GERMANY
924 ROMANIA
865 URUGUAY
843 ITALY
817 ECUADOR
783 ALBANIA
764 BRAZIL
720 PORTUGAL
681 FRANCE
674 PARAGUAY
660 SWITZERLAND
636 GREECE

You may be surprised that Colombia ranks number 2 but remember all the hundreds of SCADTA airmails. To see whether there were any other "anomalies," I decided to run the sort again looking at only Regular Issues/Commemoratives. But while the rankings changed, most of the first group of countries were still in the second sort, just in a different order. Perhaps the surprise in the second list is the addition of Portuguese India with some 450 regular/commems.

UNITED STATES
IRAN
TURKEY
RUSSIA
MEXICO
SPAIN
NICARAGUA
PORTUGAL
SALVADOR, EL
HUNGARY
ROMANIA
URUGUAY
BRAZIL
GERMANY
COLOMBIA
ARGENTINE REPUBLIC
PHILIPPINES
PORTUGUESE INDIA
CHINA
GREECE
FRANCE
ECUADOR
ITALY
ARMENIA
AUSTRIA

It is harder to do a meaningful bottom group because most of the entries are along the lines of Yugoslavia's Carthinia Plebiscite. Nevertheless, here are the countries (as opposed to occupied areas, states, etc.) with the fewest stamps issued between 1840 and 1940:

3 IONIAN ISLANDS
4 FAROE ISLANDS
4 KIONGA
5 COCHIN-CHINA
6 STELLALAND
8 PITCAIRN ISLANDS
8 SASENO
9 ANNAM AND TONGKING
11 BARBUDA
11 NEW BRUNSWICK
11 PORTUGUESE AFRICA

For my next post, I'll look at whether there have been more postage dues than newspaper stamps and similar burning stamp collecting questions. I'm thinking that Pneumatic Post Stamps are going to rank pretty high. What about you?