In all seriousness, in both my home country and the country I live in, the number of downloads surpasses the population numbers which is kinda insane.
I think they count every download of every package, every version, every time. It's not the number of unique users or even packages.
If you install 3 apps you might need to download 3 versions of graphics driver, 3 versions of desktop environment libraries and so on, It won't count as one user installing 3 apps, it will show up as 10 -20 downloads. And that's just the initial install, every time you update them it counts another 10-20.
It could be simple download requests, rather than MAC or IP address downloads.
Interesting...
In all seriousness, in both my home country and the country I live in, the number of downloads surpasses the population numbers which is kinda insane.
I think they count every download of every package, every version, every time. It's not the number of unique users or even packages.
If you install 3 apps you might need to download 3 versions of graphics driver, 3 versions of desktop environment libraries and so on, It won't count as one user installing 3 apps, it will show up as 10 -20 downloads. And that's just the initial install, every time you update them it counts another 10-20.
It could be simple download requests, rather than MAC or IP address downloads.
It is per download not per person.