How Many People On Facebook

There are very few applications that is as preferred and used day-to-day as the Facebook app. For lots of people it's the next app to examine after a climate application in the morning to see what's up with the friends, family members, numerous variety of brands they adhere to and, certainly, news. The impact of Facebook on lives of numerous millions has actually reached the factor when a variety of significant problems have actually popped up in Facebook media insurance coverage as well as academic study, such as a dependency to the system, data privacy breaches and propaganda influence.

In 2010, 3 years after Apple introduced revolutionary iPhone and later in 2008 the Application Shop, Facebook produced a mobile app for both iOS (iPhone just, the iPad version was released later on in 2011) and Android systems. Initially the iphone application wasn't native and also was infamously sluggish on mobile but in August of 2012 Facebook finally introduced the iphone native app and it performed twice as quick as its predecessor. Because that year the apps have actually experienced about 60 versions and also have become one of one of the most feature-reached applications on mobile platforms.

Today, there are about 2 billion mobile phones in use on the planet and out of that stunning number 85% of smart device proprietors make use of Facebook application. Among all Facebook users 47% accessibility it by means of 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 grows steadily. Such special range of adoption and usage have actually resulted in levels of separation between Facebook individuals equal to 4, implying every Facebook individual is gotten in touch with all various other Facebook customers by means of 3 individuals.

Facebook iphone application interface
Total Facebook Users

Currently allow's see exactly how one of the most significant mobile application on the planet can be described with Facebook usage, individual and also earnings stats.

Facebook application has individuals in mostly all corners of the world, right here is a fast snapshot of how the application is popular in different parts of the globe.

Facebook Key information points:

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

  • Number of Facebook daily active users-- 1,5 billion

  • Number of Facebook individuals in United States as well as Canada-- 241 million

  • Variety of Facebook users in Europe-- 377 million

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

  • Number of Facebook Carrier individuals-- 1,2 billion

  • Time individuals spend on Facebook daily-- 35 minutes

  • Facebook Total Amount Earnings in 2018-- $12 billion


People and also their social communications remain in the heart of the Facebook system, here is what we can say regarding the app's customer data.

Facebook User Statistics

Because of having greater than a 2,2 billion of individuals, Facebook app is the one that has the most diverse individual profile. It is offered internationally, except 10 countries where Facebook as well as therefore its mobile applications are outlawed.

In US as well as Canada alone Facebook has more than 240 million registered individuals, India has 270 million customers, 140 Indonesian individuals are on Facebook and also Brazil comes four on this graph with 130 million signed up users. Since the social network has been prohibited in China, only 1% of all social shares are being generated on Facebook. 70% of Argentinian smartphone net individuals make use of the Facebook app. 21% of Japanese smartphone proprietors utilize Facebook application on a month-to-month basis.

Leading nations based upon number of Facebook customers since April 2018, in millions
Total Facebook Users

When we consider the split in between female as well as male Facebook customers for different age groups, we see the complying with image. Generally, 56% of Facebook users are male as well as 44% are female. Among various age, these 56% of male individuals offered with 18% among 25-34 years old one, as well as 16% amongst 18-24 years old one. In general the only age where female have a lot more users is 55-64 years of ages.

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

Facebook Usage Data

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 as well as more than 989 countless 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 individuals 2016-- 2018, by area, in millions
Total Facebook Users

On a day-by-day basis concerning 1,5 billion individuals around the globe tap on the Facebook application icon on their iPhones and Android mobile phones to inspect their feed, post an upgrade, an image, share their current state of mind, location and so on. When we contrast Q1, 2016 numbers against Q1, 2018, we see the largest growth in Asia-Pasific-- 200 million. We have to remember that Facebook is restricted in China, meaning this development must just be attributed to various other counties in the region-- South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Australia as well as others. And also the slowest growth in USA as well as Canada-- just 12 million new customers. This doesn't come as a shock because the majority of people who intended to register currently did so however new users aren't actually going to join in masses and especially after the current Cambridge Analytica data breach.

Variety of day-to-day active Facebook individuals globally 2016-2018, in millions
Total Facebook Users

Facebook Revenue

As we can see from on graph from the Facebook Q1, 2018 Results report, the lion gaze of the Facebook revenue was created with advertising. The Facebook app has been one of one of the most, if not one of the most, efficient system to drive mobile application sets up in volume. One of the significant factors to earnings that Facebook has actually been creating with advertising are mobile app installs. By 2014 the complete number of downloads produced through ads positioned inside Facebook mobile applications reached 350 million. Of course, mobile app installs present only a solitary sort of products that businesses promote on Facebook.

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

Facebook Carrier

In 2011 Facebook decided to distinguish a messaging function into a standalone application-- Facebook Carrier and also three years later on the business revealed that messaging featured will certainly be eliminated from Facebook app entirely and so all individuals will certainly need to download and install the Facebook Messenger app to be able to send instant messages on Facebook. Complying with the course of constructing a platform on the basis of a messaging application, very first blazed by WeChat, Line, Viber and various other popular IM applications, in March 0f 2015, Facebook added a feature to the application, which allowed individuals to send cash to their buddies, it's presently only available in the US just. In springtime of 2016 Facebook launched chatbots service for Facebook Messenger that enabled organisations to construct a communication channel with their clients by means of Facebook Carrier. Since April, 2017 the complete variety of the application has actually gotten to 1,2 billion users.

Number of monthly active Facebook Messenger users 2014-2017, in millions
Total Facebook Users

Final thought

The popularity as well as the advancement roadmap of the Facebook app has been dictated by the appeal of Facebook as a social media network. The most recent trend for the app is that its friend application Facebook Carrier comes to be a system to implement functions that usually lead to a standalone application. Such functions as mobile settlements, chatbots as well as different plugins are viewed as the way to raise people's experience of communication with Facebook as well as permit people to do even more on Facebook. It fits perfectly to the Facebook approach to cover all people requires they typically please on mobile sites or applications.

One more interesting possibility for the Facebook mobile application is to get Virtual Reality output/input abilities, as Oculus Break, the Virtual Reality headset designer and manufacturer, gotten by Facebook for $2 billion in 2014, continues to boost the headset and also with time the application might become one of its applications.