Canada's statistics are he
http://www.tc.gc.ca/civilaviation/ge...s/stats005.htm

Approximately 70,000, but you have to read the page carefully to pull out
things like balloonists, student-permits, etc., if you do not want those in
your count.


"john smith" wrote in message
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In the USA, we now have between 500,000 and 600,000 pilots (down from
700,000 20 years ago).
For the international viewers of this group, how many pilots does your
government report?