how many polar bears are in the north pole currently

Question: how many polar bears are in the north pole currently
- Keywords:
  animal,
  polar bears
Asked by anon-223703 to Adam on 14 Nov 2019.
- Adam Wootton answered on 14 Nov 2019:
  
  It’s actually really difficult to find out the answer to that question! The North Pole is a very big place, and accurately counting the number of polar bears is very expensive and quite dangerous, so people don’t look at it very often. Ten years ago we think that there were around 20,000.

Question: how many polar bears are in the north pole currently