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Planet Money
3:53 pm
Mon December 24, 2012

Without Magic, Santa Would Need 12 Million Employees

Credit Lam Thuy Vo and Chana Joffe-Walt / NPR
Source: FedEx

There are 760 million Christian children in the world, according to the Pew Research Center. Suppose Santa delivers one gift to each child. What kind of delivery workforce would Santa need?

We couldn't get an interview with Santa. But we did get Paul Tronsor from FedEx and Mike Mangeot from UPS. They helped us go through the numbers.

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