Total Facebook Users

There are very couple of apps that is as popular and also previously owned day-to-day as the Facebook app. For many people it's the next app to inspect after a weather condition app in the early morning to see what's up with the buddies, family, many number of brand names they comply with and, of course, information. The influence of Facebook on lives of thousands of millions has reached the point when a number of severe problems have popped up in Facebook media coverage as well as academic study, such as a dependency to the system, data personal privacy violations and publicity influence.

In 2010, 3 years after Apple presented cutting edge iPhone as well as later on in 2008 the Application Store, Facebook developed a mobile application for both iphone (apple iphone just, the iPad version was launched later in 2011) as well as Android systems. Originally the iphone app wasn't indigenous and was infamously sluggish on mobile yet in August of 2012 Facebook finally introduced the iphone native application and it carried out twice as quick as its predecessor. Because that year the apps have experienced around 60 versions and also have actually turned into one of one of the most feature-reached apps on mobile platforms.

Today, there are approximately 2 billion smart devices in operation worldwide and also out of that stunning number 85% of mobile phone owners utilize Facebook app. Among all Facebook users 47% gain access to it via mobile (in United States this number reaches 68%). As a matter of fact about 6% of ALL digital time is spent on Facebook and also this figure grows steadily. Such special range of adoption and also usage have actually resulted in degrees of splitting up in between Facebook customers equal to 4, indicating every Facebook user is gotten in touch with all other Facebook customers via 3 people.

Facebook iOS app user interface
Total Facebook Users

Now let's see how the most significant mobile application on the earth can be defined with Facebook use, customer and also revenue stats.

Facebook application has individuals in mostly all edges of the world, below is a quick picture of how the app is prominent in various parts of the globe.

Facebook Trick information factors:

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

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

  • Variety of Facebook individuals in US and also Canada-- 241 million

  • Variety of Facebook customers in Europe-- 377 million

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

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

  • Time individuals spend on Facebook daily-- 35 mins

  • Facebook Total Earnings in 2018-- $12 billion


Individuals as well as their social communications are in the heart of the Facebook platform, right here is what we can claim regarding the app's individual statistics.

Facebook User Statistics

Through having greater than a 2,2 billion of individuals, Facebook application is the one that has one of the most varied individual profile. It is available globally, except 10 nations where Facebook and also consequently its mobile applications are prohibited.

In United States and also Canada alone Facebook has greater than 240 million signed up users, India has 270 million individuals, 140 Indonesian people are on Facebook and also Brazil comes 4 on this chart with 130 million signed up users. Because the social network has been banned in China, just 1% of all social shares are being generated on Facebook. 70% of Argentinian mobile phone web customers make use of the Facebook application. 21% of Japanese smartphone owners use Facebook application on a regular monthly basis.

Leading nations based upon variety of Facebook users since April 2018, in millions
Total Facebook Users

When we look at the split in between female and male Facebook customers for various age groups, we see the complying with photo. Generally, 56% of Facebook users are male as well as 44% are women. Among various age, these 56% of male customers presented with 18% amongst 25-34 years of ages one, as well as 16% amongst 18-24 years of ages one. Overall the only age group where lady have a lot more customers is 55-64 years old.

Facebook users distribution by age as well as gender, 2018
Total Facebook Users

Facebook Usage Stats

As of April 2018 there are greater than 2,2 billion Facebook regular monthly energetic users. Every day 1,5 billion people check out their preferred social media network and more than 989 numerous them do it through the mobile app. In US alone individuals invest 35 mins a day in the Facebook mobile app, worldwide an ordinary time individuals invest in Facebook has to do with 20 mins.

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

On a day-by-day basis concerning 1,5 billion individuals around the world faucet on the Facebook app icon on their apples iphone and also Android smartphones to examine their feed, upload an upgrade, an image, share their present mood, location and more. When we compare Q1, 2016 numbers versus Q1, 2018, we see the biggest development in Asia-Pasific-- 200 million. We must remember that Facebook is forbidden in China, implying this growth should only be attributed to other areas in the area-- South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Australia as well as others. And the slowest development in USA as well as Canada-- only 12 million new users. This doesn't come as a surprise since the majority of people that wanted to sign up already did so but new customers aren't truly ready to participate masses and also specifically after the recent Cambridge Analytica information breach.

Number of daily active Facebook users globally 2016-2018, in millions
Total Facebook Users

Facebook Earnings

As we can see from on graph from the Facebook Q1, 2018 Outcomes report, the lion look of the Facebook earnings was produced with advertising and marketing. The Facebook application has actually been one of one of the most, if not the most, efficient platform to drive mobile app sets up in quantity. Among the significant factors to profits that Facebook has actually been producing with marketing are mobile app installs. By 2014 the complete variety of downloads produced through advertisements positioned inside Facebook mobile applications reached 350 million. Certainly, mobile app sets up existing just a solitary kind of items that businesses promote on Facebook.

Facebook advertisement earnings by customer geography, in millions
Total Facebook Users

Facebook Messenger

In 2011 Facebook made a decision to select a messaging function right into a standalone application-- Facebook Messenger and also 3 years later on the firm introduced that messaging included will certainly be gotten rid of from Facebook application entirely therefore all individuals will certainly need to download and install the Facebook Messenger app to be able to send immediate messages on Facebook. Following the path of building a platform on the basis of a messaging app, initial blazed by WeChat, Line, Viber as well as other preferred IM applications, in March 0f 2015, Facebook included a function to the app, which permitted customers to send cash to their good friends, it's currently only offered in the United States only. In springtime of 2016 Facebook released chatbots solution for Facebook Carrier that permitted services to develop a communication channel with their customers using Facebook Messenger. Since April, 2017 the overall number of the application has actually gotten to 1,2 billion individuals.

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

Conclusion

The appeal and also the growth roadmap of the Facebook app has actually been determined by the appeal of Facebook as a social media network. The most up to date pattern for the application is that its companion application Facebook Carrier becomes a platform to implement attributes that typically cause a standalone application. Such features as mobile repayments, chatbots as well as numerous plugins are viewed as the way to increase people's experience of communication with Facebook and also enable people to do more on Facebook. It fits completely to the Facebook strategy to cover all people needs they typically satisfy on mobile websites or applications.

Another interesting prospect for the Facebook mobile application is to acquire Virtual Reality output/input capacities, as Oculus Break, the Virtual Reality headset developer and also maker, gotten by Facebook for $2 billion in 2014, continues to enhance the headset as well as over time the app might turn into one of its applications.