Following on from my previous post, European Natural History Collections – What’s Missing, it is simple to create a ranked list of countries and an estimate of the number of specimen records they have in GBIF. Countries with a score of zero don’t appear in the list.
| Country | Specimens |
| Spain | 2,277,428 |
| France | 2,081,208 |
| United Kingdom | 1,038,133 |
| Germany | 747,159 |
| Poland | 304,798 |
| Netherlands | 263,655 |
| Belgium | 217,417 |
| Denmark | 161,163 |
| Slovenia | 160,757 |
| Finland | 146,845 |
| Switzerland | 86,675 |
| Austria | 82,861 |
| Portugal | 63,218 |
| Norway | 34,498 |
| Total | 7,665,815 |
I am still looking for a flaw in how I have calculated these numbers and would welcome suggestions.