{
  "_note": "Aggregate ban census of the ArchiSteamFarm Steam Community group's non-limited members. Read 2026-09-23 via Steam Web API GetPlayerBans + GetPlayerSummaries over the public member list. Aggregate counts only; no per-account identifiers are published here. Reproducible from the raw scan with an_asf_bans2.py.",
  "method": {
    "source": "ArchiSteamFarm official Steam Community group member list (memberslistxml), non-limited members only",
    "apis": [
      "ISteamUser/GetPlayerBans/v1",
      "ISteamUser/GetPlayerSummaries/v2"
    ],
    "batch_size": 100,
    "read_date": "2026-09-23",
    "dedupe": "by SteamID64"
  },
  "population": {
    "scanned_non_limited_members": 10880610,
    "unique_banned": 1200011,
    "banned_rate_pct": 11.03,
    "never_banned": 9680599,
    "never_banned_pct": 88.97,
    "membership_note": "ArchiSteamFarm sets Statistics=true by default and auto-joins this group on first run unless the operator opts out, so non-limited membership approximates the running install base."
  },
  "geo_of_banned": {
    "_note": "Country is self-reported on the Steam profile (LocCountryCode) and may be blank, wrong or VPN-set; read as approximate. Share is of the located subset only.",
    "banned_rows_read": 1182811,
    "with_public_country": 100413,
    "with_public_country_pct": 8.5,
    "top_countries_pct_of_located": {
      "US": 15.51,
      "UA": 10.04,
      "CN": 9.37,
      "RU": 7.67,
      "CA": 5.21,
      "AU": 3.15,
      "JP": 2.24,
      "BR": 1.93,
      "DE": 1.68,
      "AF": 1.57,
      "GB": 1.56,
      "RO": 1.44,
      "FR": 1.35,
      "PH": 1.33,
      "IN": 1.2
    }
  },
  "ban_breakdown_unique": {
    "community_banned": {
      "count": 1197846,
      "pct_of_banned": 99.82,
      "pct_of_scanned": 11.009
    },
    "game_ban_ge1": {
      "count": 266239,
      "pct_of_banned": 22.19,
      "pct_of_scanned": 2.447
    },
    "vac_banned": {
      "count": 47094,
      "pct_of_banned": 3.92,
      "pct_of_scanned": 0.433
    },
    "vac_multi": {
      "count": 538
    },
    "economy_ban": {
      "count": 5214,
      "pct_of_banned": 0.43,
      "pct_of_scanned": 0.048
    },
    "community_only": {
      "count": 886119,
      "pct_of_banned": 73.8
    }
  },
  "registration_year_of_banned": {
    "detail_rows_unique": 1182811,
    "with_valid_creation_date": 1132852,
    "by_year": {
      "2003": 1401,
      "2004": 2891,
      "2005": 2009,
      "2006": 1890,
      "2007": 5736,
      "2008": 8614,
      "2009": 12194,
      "2010": 7794,
      "2011": 8209,
      "2012": 8513,
      "2013": 23113,
      "2014": 17562,
      "2015": 15109,
      "2016": 21205,
      "2017": 59175,
      "2018": 64082,
      "2019": 77119,
      "2020": 105821,
      "2021": 51701,
      "2022": 104641,
      "2023": 169439,
      "2024": 227030,
      "2025": 121070,
      "2026": 16534
    },
    "top_month_spikes": {
      "2023-04": 41661,
      "2024-03": 38696,
      "2022-06": 31137,
      "2019-02": 29927,
      "2025-03": 29911,
      "2020-04": 29396,
      "2024-04": 28733,
      "2024-02": 27766,
      "2020-01": 26028,
      "2025-02": 24085
    }
  },
  "store_entry_floor": {
    "claim": "Lower bound on what this population has already spent in the Steam store.",
    "rule_source": "https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/71D3-35C2-AD96-AA3A",
    "rule_quote": "Limited user accounts are prevented from ... Counting towards Steam group membership",
    "unlock_minimum_usd": 5.0,
    "unlock_exclusions": "retail keys, free weekends, received gifts, market proceeds, F2P titles",
    "members_counted": 10880610,
    "floor_usd": 54403050,
    "read_date": "2026-09-23",
    "limits": "A floor only. Spend above $5.00 is not observable through the public API, so the true total is higher. Not revenue attributable to farming and not a profit claim."
  },
  "age_at_ban": {
    "claim": "How old the account was when its most recent ban landed.",
    "derivation": "creation date (GetPlayerSummaries TimeCreated) subtracted from the ban date implied by GetPlayerBans DaysSinceLastBan, read 2026-09-23",
    "accounts_with_both_values": 293750,
    "of_total_banned": 1200011,
    "median_years": 0.8,
    "p10_years": 0.18,
    "p90_years": 5.0,
    "buckets_pct": {
      "under_6_months": 33.7,
      "6_to_12_months": 21.5,
      "1_to_2_years": 20.6,
      "2_to_5_years": 14.3,
      "5_years_plus": 10.0
    },
    "buckets_count": {
      "under_6_months": 98911,
      "6_to_12_months": 63045,
      "1_to_2_years": 60385,
      "2_to_5_years": 42090,
      "5_years_plus": 29350
    },
    "inside_first_year_pct": 55.1,
    "limits": "Computed only where both dates are present: 906,230 banned accounts report no days-since value and are omitted, not imputed. Read as the shape of the dated subset."
  }
}