Usually, I'm very excited about statistics, but here, I don't know... The reason why we have so many finnish covers is simply due to a very active editor and user (no offense to both). I miss Isa btw for her mostly french input and PG for all things Italian.
I've posted this observation elsewhere, but it seems that some nationals (e.g. Finns) are more likely to include original English sub-titles and writing credits in Discogs entries than other nationals, making adaptions easier to spot (by me at least), later confirm, and ultimately submit. If there are some applicable cultural differences here (e.g. the French can be notorious anglophobes), these could also account for disproportionate SHs entries by language.
Walt & VV, you both know that I am the active editor for all things Finnish (and Swedish, and Croatian, and Spanish, and Greek and - recently Polish (see Kazik Staszewski 26 times!) and German, and if I feel like it, even Dutch!).
Your problem, VV, is you totally rely on Discogs and the reason why there are so many Finnish and Swedish covers on site is related to the countries' PROs: I relied heavily - for Finnish covers - on Suomen äänitearkisto (Database of The Finnish Institute of Recorded Sounds), which is not active anymore, now www.fono.fi and for Sweden SMDB
The advantage of these databases is that they not just give you the one Finnish cover of a foreign original, but all of them! So in one go you sometimes can enter five or even ten covers of a work. By five or even ten different artists. For Sweden it is easy to find the first recorded performance even if it is in 1927 and not available in Discogs or 45 Worlds - 78RPM.
But this does not work for Germany (GEMA), ISWC (the whole world?), SGAE (Spain) and the situation in The Netherlands, Italy, Norway and Denmark is totally hopeless as far as their PROs are concerned.
Walt, you can mourn the fact that Isa and PG are not very active anymore, but I have seen wonderful entries of French and Italian covers coming from our talented new group of editors
And yes, if I feel like doing some Greek submissions I know where to find the CC, who might provide them...............
And, Discogs, ach ja.................. I think I have another try at Don't Dream It's Over....
Thom