Christmas tree statistics

USA
•36 million – Estimated number of real Christmas trees to be sold in 2006
•46 million – Households that plan to use an artificial tree in 2006 >

UK
Around eight million trees are sold in this country every year. Most of these trees are grown in the UK. Currently, around a third of homes buy a real Christmas tree, around a third have an artificial Christmas tree and around a third have no tree at all. According to the BCTGA, the market is dominated by the Nordmann fir, of which more than four million are sold every year. >

DE
28 Millionen Christbäume wurden 2008 in Deutschland gekauft. >

Television viewing

A survey for 2009 by Media Control shows how much TV Germans watch:

Average TV viewing per day: 212 minutes (3 1/2 hrs)
Age 14-49: 182 minutes (3 hrs)
Highest rise - Saxony: 182 minutes (3 hrs), 18 minutes longer than 2008.
Most watching - Brandenburg: 262 minutes (4 hrs 22 mins)
Over-50s in Berlin: 333 minutes (5 1/2 hrs)
Age 3-18 in Berlin: 75 minutes (1 hr 15 mins)

An Ofcom report for 2008 shows that the average number of TV watching minutes in the Uk in 2008 was 225, and in Germany 207. (USA: 277)
It also shows that a TV licence cost £140 in the UK and £163 in Germany, also in 2008.

The CHILDWISE Trends Report 2009 reports that British children age 5-16 watch an average of 2.7 hours per day, up from a low of 2.4 hours in 2006.