How Many Facebook Users are there | Update 2019
By
Herman Syah
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Friday, December 27, 2019
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Total Facebook Users
In 2010, 3 years after Apple introduced cutting edge iPhone and also later in 2008 the App Store, Facebook created a mobile app for both iOS (iPhone only, the iPad variation was released later in 2011) as well as Android platforms. Initially the iOS app wasn't indigenous as well as was infamously sluggish on mobile but in August of 2012 Facebook finally launched the iOS indigenous application as well as it executed twice as fast as its precursor. Since that year the applications have actually gone through around 60 iterations as well as have become one of one of the most feature-reached apps on mobile platforms.
Today, there are roughly 2 billion mobile phones in use on the planet and out of that sensational number 85% of smartphone proprietors make use of Facebook app. Among all Facebook customers 47% gain access to it via mobile (in United States this number gets to 68%). As a matter of fact regarding 6% of ALL digital time is invested in Facebook and this figure expands steadily. Such grandiose scale of fostering and also usage have resulted in levels of splitting up in between Facebook individuals equal to 4, suggesting every Facebook individual is gotten in touch with all various other Facebook customers via 3 individuals.
Facebook iOS app user interface
Currently let's see just how the most prominent mobile application on the earth can be described with Facebook use, individual as well as revenue data.
Facebook app has individuals in nearly all corners of the globe, below is a quick photo of just how the application is popular in different parts of the world.
Facebook Trick data factors:
- Variety of Facebook monthly active individuals-- 2,2 billion
- Variety of Facebook daily energetic users-- 1,5 billion
- Number of Facebook users in United States as well as Canada-- 241 million
- Number of Facebook customers in Europe-- 377 million
- Variety of Facebook individuals in Asia & Pacific-- 873 million
- Variety Of Facebook Messenger individuals-- 1,2 billion
- Time individuals spend on Facebook daily-- 35 mins
- Facebook Total Earnings in 2018-- $12 billion
People and their social interactions are in the heart of the Facebook system, here is what we can claim concerning the app's user statistics.
Facebook User Statistics
By virtue of having more than a 2,2 billion of users, Facebook application is the one that has the most diverse user account. It is readily available worldwide, except 10 nations where Facebook and also therefore its mobile apps are prohibited.
In United States and Canada alone Facebook has greater than 240 million registered individuals, India has 270 million users, 140 Indonesian people are on Facebook and Brazil comes 4 on this chart with 130 million registered customers. Due to the fact that the social network has been prohibited in China, just 1% of all social shares are being generated on Facebook. 70% of Argentinian mobile phone internet customers make use of the Facebook app. 21% of Japanese smart device proprietors utilize Facebook app on a monthly basis.
Leading countries based on number of Facebook users as of April 2018, in millions
When we look at the split in between women and also male Facebook users for different age, we see the complying with photo. Generally, 56% of Facebook customers are male and 44% are female. Amongst various age, these 56% of male users presented with 18% among 25-34 years of ages one, and also 16% among 18-24 years old one. Generally the only age group where female have more individuals is 55-64 years old.
Facebook users distribution by age and gender, 2018
Facebook Usage Statistics
As of April 2018 there are more than 2,2 billion Facebook monthly energetic customers. On a daily basis 1,5 billion individuals take a look at their preferred social media network as well as more than 989 numerous them do it by means of the mobile application. In US alone people spend 35 mins a day in the Facebook mobile application, worldwide a typical time individuals invest in Facebook is about 20 mins.
Facebook monthly active individuals 2016-- 2018, by area, in millions
On a day-by-day basis about 1,5 billion people around the globe tap on the Facebook app icon on their apples iphone and Android smartphones to examine their feed, upload an update, an image, share their current state of mind, area and so on. When we compare Q1, 2016 numbers versus Q1, 2018, we see the greatest growth in Asia-Pasific-- 200 million. We must keep in mind that Facebook is forbidden in China, suggesting this development needs to only be credited to other areas in the area-- South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Australia as well as others. And also the slowest growth in USA and Canada-- only 12 million brand-new customers. This doesn't come as a shock since the majority of people who wanted to sign up currently did so however new individuals aren't really happy to take part masses as well as specifically after the recent Cambridge Analytica information violation.
Variety of day-to-day energetic Facebook individuals worldwide 2016-2018, in millions
Facebook Income
As we can see from on chart from the Facebook Q1, 2018 Results report, the lion look of the Facebook revenue was generated with advertising and marketing. The Facebook app has actually been just one of one of the most, otherwise the most, effective platform to drive mobile app mounts in quantity. One of the major factors to earnings that Facebook has been creating with advertising are mobile application installs. By 2014 the overall number of downloads produced via advertisements placed inside Facebook mobile apps reached 350 million. Of course, mobile application sets up present just a solitary kind of products that services market on Facebook.
Facebook advertisement earnings by customer geography, in millions
Facebook Carrier
In 2011 Facebook decided to distinguish a messaging feature right into a standalone application-- Facebook Carrier as well as three years later the company introduced that messaging included will be removed from Facebook application totally therefore all individuals will have to download the Facebook Carrier app to be able to send instant messages on Facebook. Following the path of constructing a system on the basis of a messaging application, very first blazed by WeChat, Line, Viber and also various other preferred IM apps, in March 0f 2015, Facebook added a function to the application, which allowed customers to send money to their buddies, it's currently only available in the US only. In spring of 2016 Facebook introduced chatbots option for Facebook Carrier that enabled companies to construct a communication channel with their consumers using Facebook Messenger. As of April, 2017 the complete number of the app has gotten to 1,2 billion customers.
Variety of regular monthly energetic Facebook Messenger customers 2014-2017, in millions
Final thought
The popularity and also the growth roadmap of the Facebook app has been dictated by the popularity of Facebook as a social network. The most up to date pattern for the application is that its companion application Facebook Messenger becomes a platform to apply functions that normally lead to a standalone application. Such functions as mobile repayments, chatbots as well as various plugins are seen as the way to raise individuals's experience of interaction with Facebook and also permit individuals to do even more on Facebook. It fits completely to the Facebook strategy to cover all individuals needs they typically please on mobile web sites or apps.
An additional interesting possibility for the Facebook mobile app is to acquire Virtual Reality output/input capabilities, as Oculus Break, the Virtual Reality headset developer and also maker, obtained by Facebook for $2 billion in 2014, continues to improve the headset as well as in time the application might turn into one of its applications.