Fun Facts About Lego

Did you know that LEGO is one of the five biggest toy manufactures on the planet? Here are some other fun facts about LEGO!
  • More than 400 million children and adults will play with LEGO bricks this year.
  • LEGO products are on sale in more than 130 countries.
  • If you built a column of about 40,000,000,000 LEGO bricks, it would reach the moon.
  • More than seven LEGO sets are sold each second.
  • Approx. 23 billion LEGO elements are made every year at the factory in Billund – equivalent to approx. 2.4 million elements an hour or 40,000 a minute.
  • In 2010 the LEGO Group expects to achieve a global production of more than 31 billion elements – equivalent to 60,000 elements a minute or 1,000 elements every second.
  • If all LEGO sets sold in a year were stacked on top of each other, they would fill a football field to a height of 150 m.
  • Laid end to end, the number of LEGO bricks sold in a year would reach more than ten times round the world.
  • On average, every person on earth owns 70 LEGO bricks. The eight robots and 15 automatic cranes that work in the LEGO warehouse in Billund can shift 660 crates of bricks in and out every hour.
  • The world’s children spend 5 billion hours a year playing with LEGO bricks.
  • With a production of over 300 million tires a year, the LEGO Group is the world’s largest tyre manufacturer.
  • In the manufacture of LEGO bricks the machine tolerance is as small as 10 my (0.01 mm).
  • The LEGO Club has 3.2 million members worldwide.
  • Over the years, approx. 485 billion LEGO elements have been manufactured.