Facebook User Count

There are really few apps that is as preferred and also pre-owned day-to-day as the Facebook app. For many individuals it's the following application to inspect after a weather app in the early morning to see what's up with the pals, family, many number of brands they comply with and also, certainly, news. The impact of Facebook on lives of thousands of millions has gotten to the factor when a variety of serious issues have popped up in Facebook media coverage as well as scholastic research, such as a dependency to the platform, information privacy violations and propaganda impact.

In 2010, three years after Apple introduced innovative apple iphone and also later on in 2008 the Application Shop, Facebook created a mobile app for both iphone (iPhone just, the iPad variation was released later on in 2011) and Android systems. Originally the iphone app had not been native as well as was infamously slow-moving on mobile but in August of 2012 Facebook lastly released the iOS indigenous application and it executed two times as fast as its precursor. Since that year the apps have experienced about 60 versions as well as have actually turned into one of the most feature-reached apps on mobile systems.

Today, there are approximately 2 billion smartphones being used on the planet and also out of that sensational number 85% of mobile phone owners utilize Facebook app. Amongst all Facebook customers 47% access it through mobile (in United States this number reaches 68%). As a matter of fact regarding 6% of ALL electronic time is spent on Facebook as well as this number expands steadily. Such special scale of fostering and also use have actually resulted in levels of separation in between Facebook individuals equal to 4, implying every Facebook customer is gotten in touch with all various other Facebook customers via 3 individuals.

Facebook iOS application interface
Total Facebook Users

Currently let's see how one of the most significant mobile application on the planet can be explained with Facebook usage, user and revenue stats.

Facebook app has customers in almost all corners of the globe, below is a fast snapshot of exactly how the application is prominent in different parts of the globe.

Facebook Trick data points:

  • Number of Facebook month-to-month active individuals-- 2,2 billion

  • Variety of Facebook daily energetic users-- 1,5 billion

  • Variety of Facebook users in US and Canada-- 241 million

  • Variety of Facebook customers in Europe-- 377 million

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

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

  • Time individuals spend on Facebook daily-- 35 minutes

  • Facebook Overall Revenue in 2018-- $12 billion


Individuals and also their social interactions remain in the heart of the Facebook system, here is what we can state regarding the app's individual statistics.

Facebook User Statistics

By virtue of having greater than a 2,2 billion of customers, Facebook app is the one that has one of the most diverse user account. It is available around the world, except 10 countries where Facebook as well as therefore its mobile applications are outlawed.

In United States and Canada alone Facebook has more than 240 million registered users, India has 270 million users, 140 Indonesian individuals get on Facebook and Brazil comes four on this graph with 130 million signed up customers. Since the social network has actually been banned in China, just 1% of all social shares are being generated on Facebook. 70% of Argentinian smart device net users use the Facebook application. 21% of Japanese smart device proprietors use Facebook app on a regular monthly basis.

Leading countries based upon number of Facebook customers as of April 2018, in millions
Total Facebook Users

When we take a look at the split between female and male Facebook users for different age groups, we see the adhering to photo. As a whole, 56% of Facebook customers are male and also 44% are women. Amongst various age groups, these 56% of male individuals provided with 18% among 25-34 years of ages one, as well as 16% among 18-24 years of ages one. In general the only age group where female have a lot more customers is 55-64 years of ages.

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

Facebook Use Stats

Since April 2018 there are greater than 2,2 billion Facebook regular monthly energetic customers. On a daily basis 1,5 billion people check out their favorite social media network and also more than 989 countless them do it via the mobile app. In United States alone individuals invest 35 mins a day in the Facebook mobile app, worldwide an average time individuals invest in Facebook is about 20 minutes.

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

On a day-by-day basis about 1,5 billion individuals around the world tap on the Facebook app icon on their iPhones as well as Android smart devices to inspect their feed, upload an update, a photo, share their present mood, location and so on. When we compare Q1, 2016 numbers against Q1, 2018, we see the largest growth in Asia-Pasific-- 200 million. We need to keep in mind that Facebook is restricted in China, implying this development must just be attributed to various other regions in the region-- South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Australia as well as others. And the slowest growth in USA and also Canada-- only 12 million brand-new individuals. This does not come as a shock since the majority of people that wished to register already did so but brand-new users aren't actually ready to participate in masses as well as specifically after the current Cambridge Analytica data violation.

Number of daily energetic Facebook users worldwide 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 marketing. The Facebook application has actually been just one of one of the most, if not the most, effective system to drive mobile application sets up in volume. Among the significant factors to revenue that Facebook has been generating with advertising are mobile application installs. By 2014 the total number of downloads produced using ads positioned inside Facebook mobile applications got to 350 million. Obviously, mobile application sets up present just a single type of products that organisations market on Facebook.

Facebook advertisement revenue by user geography, in millions
Total Facebook Users

Facebook Carrier

In 2011 Facebook decided to single out a messaging attribute right into a standalone application-- Facebook Carrier as well as 3 years later the business introduced that messaging featured will certainly be removed from Facebook app totally therefore all customers will have to download the Facebook Carrier application to be able to send out immediate messages on Facebook. Complying with the path of building a platform on the basis of a messaging application, first blazed by WeChat, Line, Viber and also other prominent IM apps, in March 0f 2015, Facebook added a feature to the app, which enabled individuals to send out cash to their close friends, it's presently just available in the United States just. In springtime of 2016 Facebook launched chatbots remedy for Facebook Messenger that enabled businesses to construct a communication channel with their clients by means of Facebook Messenger. As of April, 2017 the total number of the app has gotten to 1,2 billion individuals.

Variety of regular monthly active Facebook Carrier users 2014-2017, in millions
Total Facebook Users

Verdict

The appeal as well as the advancement roadmap of the Facebook application has actually been determined by the appeal of Facebook as a social media. The most recent fad for the application is that its companion application Facebook Messenger ends up being a system to apply features that normally lead to a standalone application. Such attributes as mobile payments, chatbots and also numerous plugins are seen as the way to boost individuals's experience of interaction with Facebook and allow people to do even more on Facebook. It fits perfectly to the Facebook method to cover all individuals requires they normally please on mobile websites or applications.

An additional interesting possibility for the Facebook mobile app is to gain Virtual Reality output/input capacities, as Oculus Rift, the Virtual Reality headset developer and maker, gotten by Facebook for $2 billion in 2014, remains to improve the headset as well as with time the application may turn into one of its applications.