World Post- facts all should know

Postal services employ close to 5.5 million people,
making the Post one of the largest employers in the world.

• The industrialized countries employ almost half of all postal employees.
• The United States of America, with 803,000 employees,
and China, with 688,000, have the largest numbers of
postal employees in the world.
• Ascension Island and the Falkland Islands have only
four and six postal employees respectively.
• The average number of people served per employee
is 338 in the industrialized countries and 1,960 in the developing countries.

More than 665,000 permanent post offices worldwide
make the Post one of the most extensive networks on the planet.

• The Asia/Pacific region heads the list with 46.8%
of the world’s permanent post offices. 26% are located in
the industrialized countries, close to 17% in Eastern and
Central Europe and the CIS, 5.6% in Latin America and
the Caribbean, 2.6% in the Arab countries and just over
2% in Africa.
• Globally, India has the largest number of permanent
offices (155,516),

while Ascension Island and Norfolk Island have only one each.