LEGO Statistics

legos4ever

Well, I know a couple. There are seven lego sets sold every second. There is more than 400 billon lego bricks in the world. Anyone else?

LegoFanTexas

Lego makes more tires than any other company in the world, some 300 million a year, out of real rubber...

thebrickster

2., 2 by 4's can be combined in to 24 different combinations

thebrickster

lego is in one of the top 5 toy manufactures in the world

LegoFanTexas

You can take 6 standard 2x4 studed bricks and combine them into

915,103,765

Possible combinations...

legos4ever

You can take 6 standard 2x4 studed bricks and combine them into

915,103,765

Possible combinations...

w0w

dougts

The LEGO bricks sold in one year would circle the world 5 times.

akunthita

I can't remember the exact numbers, but LEGO is the largest tire-manufaturer in the world!...:-D

legos4ever

I heard that there are so many bricks that every person on the earth could 75 lego bricks.

Coolsplash

In two years of stacking Lego bricks you can build yourself to the Moon, something I heard in the Nat Geo LEGO documentary :P

legos4ever

There is two million bricks made per hour...

The_Brick_Builder

-LEGO wasn't the first to invent the plastic bricks

- Children around the world spend 5 billion hours a year playing with LEGO bricks.

- More than 400 million people around the world have played with LEGO bricks.

- More than 400 billion LEGO bricks have been produced since 1949. Stacked on top of each other, this is enough to connect the Earth and the Moon ten times over.

- 7 LEGO sets are sold by retailers every second around the world.

- The LEGO bricks sold in one year would circle the world 5 times