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Reproduced here is an email I received from Ludmilla Figueiredo, in charge of the Entrepreneurial Culture section of the Endeavor Institute, regarding Global Entrepreneurship Week. (Startupi was involved, with myself as official tweeter and in co-organizing an event.)

“Everything we built together will continue through the year. We are ready to plan the events for 2010. Thanks to you all, we mobilized 5,321,000 people! See the breakdown below.

It’s worth saying we did much better than all 78 nations that participated in 2008, which involved 3.06 million people! =)

Below are our stats, given in the format they use for the Rio Carnival stats. We have a lot to celebrate. Our goal for the Week this year was to get 1% of Brazil’s population involved - some 2 million people. Remember that we are in some uncertain times, what with the global financial crisis.

Midway through the process we upped our goal to 4 million people (2% of the population), and we exceeded even that, attracting 5,321,000 participants.

Some stats:

• 5,321,000 participants
• 1,355 activities
• 404 partners

Partners and event organizers came from the following sectors:

• 634 - education
• 58 - government
• 48 - internet/social networks
• 39 - media
• 367 - business
• 205 - non-profit/NGO

Types of events:

• 55 - online events
• 58 - competitions
• 69 - festivals/expos
• 30 - film/theater or music
• 20 - games/sports
• 384 - workshops/classes
• 567 - speakers/seminars or debates
• 162 - other

Themes of the events:

• 60 - sustainability
• 186 - creativity/innovation
• 74 - finance/access to capital
• 200 - ideas/opportunities
• 19 - law/tax law
• 136 - leadership/personnel
• 102 - marketing/sales
• 273 - other
• 84 - business plans
• 28 - production/operations

Events by age of participants:

• 7 - over 60 years old
• 36 - up to 14 years old
• 244 - 15 to 24 years old
• 869 - 24 to 35 years old
• 199 - 36 to 59 years old

Number of events by state in Brazil:

• Acre - 24
• Alagoas - 3
• Amazonas - 65
• Amapá - 34
• Bahia - 56
• Ceará - 74
• Distrito Federal - 33
• Espirito Santo - 14
• Goiás - 50
• Maranhão - 4
• Minas Gerais - 52
• Mato Grosso do Sul - 6
• Mato Grosso - 7
• Para - 5
• Paraiba - 14
• Pernambuco - 19
• Piaui- 4
• Paraná - 154
• Rio de Janeiro - 85
• Rio Grande do Norte- 3
• Rondônia - 30
• Roraima - 113
• Rio Grande do Sul - 81
• Santa Catarina - 68
• Sergipe - 25
• São Paulo - 333

We are so overjoyed, this is right in line with what we hoped for this year, to engage more youth, schools, and universities with the themes! We should all be celebrating this achievement together!!!!!

Cheers, Lud”

Information reproduced from an email sent by Ludmilla Figueriedo, in charge of the Entrepreneurial Culture section of the Endeavor Institute. For more information check out the official blog of Global Entrepreneurship Week. The English site is here.