Consumer Electronics Estimated number of allen keys in the world today

[quickstraw]

I have 2 million of them sitting in my back shed. Every time I buy something that needs to be assembled it comes with an allen key. I got 153 of them today with my xmas presents.

Can this rate of allen key manufacturing continue? How long until we exhaust all resources in producing allen keys? Are we past the top of the bell curve?

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/9643122/Ikea-25-facts.html
From an article on 25 years of Ikea in the UK (2012)

Last year it distributed 2.5 billion little wooden dowels, which hold its furniture together, and 50 million Allen keys

 

[Dan Moody]

 

[Scotland]

I reckon I've probably got a few dozen, yet whenever a cupboard door or a table leg etc. is loose and needs tightening I can never find one of the effing things.

 

[MarcusP2]

Usually I find several the wrong size.

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[Upgrayedd]

None when i cannot find mine.

 

[Pie eyed]

I have 2 million of them sitting in my back shed. Every time I buy something that needs to be assembled it comes with an allen key. I got 153 of them today with my xmas presents.

Can this rate of allen key manufacturing continue? How long until we exhaust all resources in producing allen keys? Are we past the top of the bell curve?

Allen informs me that he has.... actually...got all his keys and that you probably just have a large collection of extremely short bits of hexagonal wire.

Cheers.

 

[JoondalupJ]

I have 2 million of them sitting in my back shed. Every time I buy something that needs to be assembled it comes with an allen key. I got 153 of them today with my xmas presents.

Can this rate of allen key manufacturing continue? How long until we exhaust all resources in producing allen keys? Are we past the top of the bell curve?

I suspect 3 allen keys per person , so that adds to 21 billion, plus your 2 million , gives us this figure= 21.002 BILLION.