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To me, those still sound like droplets in a sea. Giving a Ribbon to someone else doesn't change their total amount, and even the Aqua Ribbons are rare and sought after.Lila comes to mind, the woman who was Dawn's mother's rival from before; I believe she quit Contests at four Ribbons, and came back to try to get her 5th from Dawn on a whim.
There's also the fact that people can be gifted Ribbons too, like Princess Salvia did to Jessie, and that there are inter-regional Ribbons like the Wallace Cup, that can be used anywhere; these aforementioned things do complicate the estimation of how many actual Contests occur within a year in a given region.