Top Facebook Users In the World

There are extremely couple of apps that is as popular and used daily as the Facebook application. For many people it's the next application to inspect after a weather condition app in the morning to see what's up with the good friends, household, many number of brand names they follow and, obviously, news. The impact of Facebook on lives of numerous millions has reached the point when a number of major issues have turned up in Facebook media coverage and academic study, such as an addiction to the system, data privacy breaches and publicity impact.

In 2010, three years after Apple introduced revolutionary apple iphone and later in 2008 the App Store, Facebook created a mobile application for both iphone (iPhone just, the iPad version was introduced later on in 2011) and also Android systems. Originally the iphone application had not been indigenous and also was notoriously slow on mobile however in August of 2012 Facebook lastly released the iphone indigenous app as well as it executed two times as fast as its predecessor. Since that year the applications have undergone around 60 iterations as well as have turned into one of the most feature-reached apps on mobile platforms.

Today, there are about 2 billion smart devices in operation on the planet as well as out of that magnificent number 85% of smart device proprietors make use of Facebook app. Amongst all Facebook customers 47% gain access to it through mobile (in US this number gets to 68%). In fact concerning 6% of ALL electronic time is spent on Facebook as well as this figure expands steadily. Such magnificent scale of fostering and use have lead to levels of splitting up in between Facebook customers equal to 4, implying every Facebook individual is connected with all other Facebook customers via 3 individuals.

Facebook iphone app user interface
Total Facebook Users

Now let's see exactly how the most significant mobile app on the earth can be described with Facebook usage, customer and revenue statistics.

Facebook app has customers in mostly all edges of the world, here is a fast snapshot of how the app is prominent in different parts of the globe.

Facebook Key data points:

  • Variety of Facebook month-to-month active users-- 2,2 billion

  • Variety of Facebook daily active customers-- 1,5 billion

  • Number of Facebook customers in US as well as Canada-- 241 million

  • Number of Facebook users in Europe-- 377 million

  • Variety of Facebook individuals in Asia & Pacific-- 873 million

  • Variety Of Facebook Messenger customers-- 1,2 billion

  • Time individuals spend on Facebook daily-- 35 minutes

  • Facebook Overall Earnings in 2018-- $12 billion


Individuals as well as their social interactions remain in the heart of the Facebook platform, here is what we can say regarding the application's individual stats.

Facebook User Statistics

Because of having greater than a 2,2 billion of individuals, Facebook application is the one that has one of the most diverse customer profile. It is available worldwide, except 10 countries where Facebook as well as as a result its mobile apps are banned.

In US and Canada alone Facebook has greater than 240 million signed up users, India has 270 million individuals, 140 Indonesian people get on Facebook as well as Brazil comes four on this chart with 130 million registered users. Due to the fact that the social media has been prohibited in China, only 1% of all social shares are being generated on Facebook. 70% of Argentinian mobile phone web customers make use of the Facebook app. 21% of Japanese mobile phone owners make use of Facebook application on a monthly basis.

Leading countries based on variety of Facebook users as of April 2018, in millions
Total Facebook Users

When we take a look at the split in between women and also male Facebook users for different age groups, we see the adhering to picture. As a whole, 56% of Facebook customers are male as well as 44% are women. Among various age, these 56% of male users offered with 18% among 25-34 years of ages one, and also 16% among 18-24 years of ages one. Generally the only age where woman have a lot more users is 55-64 years old.

Facebook customers distribution by age and also sex, 2018
Total Facebook Users

Facebook Usage Statistics

As of April 2018 there are more than 2,2 billion Facebook month-to-month active individuals. On a daily basis 1,5 billion individuals check out their favorite social media and greater than 989 numerous them do it using the mobile app. In United States alone people spend 35 minutes a day in the Facebook mobile application, worldwide a typical time people invest in Facebook has to do with 20 minutes.

Facebook monthly energetic users 2016-- 2018, by region, in millions
Total Facebook Users

On a day-by-day basis concerning 1,5 billion individuals around the globe faucet on the Facebook application symbol on their apples iphone and Android smart devices to examine their feed, upload an update, a photo, share their present mood, place and so forth. When we compare Q1, 2016 numbers against Q1, 2018, we see the biggest development in Asia-Pasific-- 200 million. We have to remember that Facebook is restricted in China, meaning this development ought to just be attributed to various other areas in the region-- South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Australia as well as others. And the slowest growth in USA as well as Canada-- only 12 million brand-new customers. This doesn't come as a shock due to the fact that most of people that intended to sign up already did so yet brand-new individuals aren't actually going to participate in masses and also specifically after the recent Cambridge Analytica data breach.

Number of day-to-day active Facebook users around the world 2016-2018, in millions
Total Facebook Users

Facebook Profits

As we can see from on graph from the Facebook Q1, 2018 Results report, the lion look of the Facebook earnings was generated with advertising. The Facebook app has actually been one of the most, if not one of the most, reliable platform to drive mobile app installs in quantity. One of the major contributors to income that Facebook has actually been producing with advertising are mobile app installs. By 2014 the complete number of downloads generated via advertisements positioned inside Facebook mobile applications reached 350 million. Of course, mobile app installs existing only a solitary type of items that companies market on Facebook.

Facebook ad profits by user location, in millions
Total Facebook Users

Facebook Carrier

In 2011 Facebook made a decision to distinguish a messaging attribute into a standalone app-- Facebook Messenger and also three years later the business revealed that messaging included will be removed from Facebook app entirely and so all users will have to download and install the Facebook Carrier app to be able to send instant messages on Facebook. Adhering to the path of constructing a platform on the basis of a messaging app, initial blazed by WeChat, Line, Viber and other prominent IM applications, in March 0f 2015, Facebook added a feature to the application, which permitted customers to send out loan to their good friends, it's presently only offered in the US just. In spring of 2016 Facebook released chatbots option for Facebook Messenger that permitted organisations to construct a communication channel with their consumers by means of Facebook Carrier. Since April, 2017 the complete variety of the app has actually gotten to 1,2 billion individuals.

Variety of regular monthly energetic Facebook Carrier individuals 2014-2017, in millions
Total Facebook Users

Final thought

The popularity as well as the advancement roadmap of the Facebook application has been dictated by the appeal of Facebook as a social media. The latest pattern for the application is that its friend app Facebook Carrier comes to be a platform to execute features that typically lead to a standalone app. Such features as mobile repayments, chatbots as well as various plugins are viewed as the way to boost people's experience of communication with Facebook and also enable individuals to do even more on Facebook. It fits perfectly to the Facebook technique to cover all individuals requires they usually satisfy on mobile internet sites or apps.

An additional remarkable prospect for the Facebook mobile application is to obtain Virtual Reality output/input abilities, as Oculus Rift, the Virtual Reality headset developer and producer, gotten by Facebook for $2 billion in 2014, remains to improve the headset and also gradually the app might turn into one of its applications.