An estimated 10% of the world population watched Sunday’s World Cup final in South Africa in which Spain defeated the Netherlands 1-0 to capture the World Cup, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

FIFA says that 700 million people (out of the around 7 billion in the world) watched the match. The two biggest percentages, of course, came in the home countries. 91% of the audiences in both Spain and the Netherlands watched the game, that’s about 16.8 million people in Spain and over 8.5 million in the Netherlands.

The Hollywood Reporter article has more information so be sure to click over there. Personally, I’m not a huge soccer fan but I watched a lot of this World Cup and the final was a can’t miss event. There’s just a special fantastic feeling about watching a dramatic event along with the entire world. Even the Olympics, while it might be a world competition, has so many different events, that it can’t hold the entire world in the palm of its hand, all watching the same thing at the same time, like the World Cup can.

Do we really have to wait another four years?