How many artists in the ...
 

In the United States at 200-odd million population - 3,5 million artists.
Australia 22 million population - 250 thousand artists.
Approximately 10-15 artists per 1000 population. Frightening.
Could anyone have statistics for other countries?

Do not be afraid ... let people draw better than vodka drink or drugs, God forbid, baluetsya ...

And I get 1,75 to 100 in the first case and 1.14 in the second. On average, it turned out as in a cartoon "The country unlearned lessons" - "half quarryman ":))))

Soglasen, nado bylo pisat 'na tysiachy naseleniia. Oshibka v arifmetike.

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Vsio ravno 1 hudoznik na sto chelovek!
Mogut li sto chelovek (srednestatisticheskih) podderzat 'zizn' odnogo hudoznika?

Competition is not only among artists.

Ia ne o konkurentsii, a o prakticheskoi storone.

In my opinion, from the practical side, the artists do not need for the average population, which it is not supported (no material or moral) ... Chaim vegetable stalls or John with any gas station to a great artist Fenya, whether Dali, or someone else.
Another thing is that a couple of times in life they can buy any picture often print to decorate the interior. So from the practical side of the artist is not something that a dentist or a plumber or a hairdresser ... benefit from it in any economy!

A kak ze so "vsenarodnoi liubov'iu"?

Forget not dream ...

And how much per capita has chinovnikov.Skazhem - in Izraile.Tma.Ukraina also not herding zadnih.Vsya this horde of mindless and greedy individuals with their inquiries and permission-Negotiation eats budget Aki sarancha.Pro corruption silent. And the whole European Union - ETOGES eldorado for idlers. There is a world city officials. Washington, Brussels ....
And the 20 artists in 1000 - minuscule compared with the horde of stupid and conceited chinush.Ya - for 100,200,1000 in 1000, artists and let them be and hairdressers and builders of houses and dentists iprepodavateli in schools and universitetah.Odnim-word all who need to briefly human life was bright and pleasant.
Art does not happen much.