<div><div>Assuming that a portion of these hard science papers were written in LaTeX (using the percentages of LaTeX penetration from Table 1) we find that <b>in 2014: 418,732 out of 2,253,230 articles (18%) were written using LaTeX</b>.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The number of LaTeX articles was calculated as follows:&nbsp;<br></div><ul><li><div>Mathematics and Statistics: 151,085 (92% LaTeX = 138,998)<br></div></li><li><div>Physics and Astronomy: 274,287 (60% LaTeX = 164,572)<br></div></li><li><div>Computer Science: 255,916 (45% LaTeX = 115,162)<br></div></li></ul><div>What do you think? Do you have other ideas on how to estimate how many people use LaTeX? Let me know by commenting on this post.<br></div><br></div>