Today, the Kiva Friends Stats box says the average number of loans per Kiva lender is 2.58. On the
Kiva Facts & Stats page, it reports 0.15 loans/lender. I assume these reports are using the same title to mean different things.
For Kiva, it's (Number of loans that have been funded through Kiva) / (Number of Kiva Lenders) = 41,616 / 280,864 = 0.15 loans/lender. Put another way, this means it takes 6 2/3 lenders to fund one average $515.98 loan (6 2/3 lenders/loan).
I assume/hope the Kiva Friends number means, "the average Kiva lender has made 2.58 loans." The way Kiva Friends reports it seems more intuitive than what Kiva reports for loans/lender. Am I reading these numbers correctly?
Knowing we have lots of Kiva lenders out there with more than just one or two loans, this also means we have
lots of "lenders" out there with zero loans on the books. It would be interesting to see a frequency distribution on this - e.g., how many lenders with 0, 1, 2, 3, ..etc. loans. The more interesting follow-up would be to try to lean why those who signed up haven't made any loans yet. Maybe the upcoming Kiva developers page will provide an opportunity to look into some more fine tuning questions like this.
