Lego numbers
By gimena on 18 November 2003
LEGO is the fourth largest toy manufacturer in the world in terms of sales.
Since 1949 LEGO has produced 203 billion bricks.
On average each person on earth owns 52 LEGO bricks.
There are 102.981.500 different ways of combining six eight stud bricks.
With an annual output of 306 million tires LEGO is the world's largest tyre manufacturer.
The accurancy when manufacturing a LEGO brick is measured to 2/1000 of a mm.
Moulding takes place in Denmark and Switzerland. Take a step by step interactive tour of the manufacturing process here.
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