How many Amiga users are left?

[lsmart]

I don´t like the term "Amiga-Like", but I am an active UAE & Amiga OS4 user. I prefer using my Amiga 3000 to UAE, but desk space is limited and classic Amigas  arent portable, so UAE has to stand in as a replacement.

All my friends who had an Amiga in the 80s have completely abandoned the platform and aren´t likely to return. They basically are sane people. I guess you have to be a little funny to even read Amiga.org

[lsmart]

There are some users that still believe that there are thousands of Amiga users out there around the world, but I really doubt it.  What do you think?

Thousands, yes. But perhaps not more than 70,000. In Germany you will find maybe five users for every big city (average). There are about 100 of these cities which would mean that there are 500 users, by a conservative estimate. If Amigas were sold in 100 countries that have about the same following we´d have 50,000 users worldwide. This is just a wild guess and most of them will just be playing old video games.

[lsmart]

Remember that I am asking about "Active" users who boot up and use an Amiga/Amiga-Like system at least once or twice "every" week and use it for at least 15 to 30 minutes "every" week.  Not just people that own an Amiga/Amiga-Like system and turn it on once a month or less.

Right. I was also thinking about people who treasure their old box, but wouldn´t dream about reading in a forum or getting updates/repairs. They won´t turn on the machine in any regular interval. However I think they do matter and belong to the community in a way.