I recently wrote about how Facebook is having phenomenal global growth and listed the top 30 countries by Facebook total users. However, some of the fastest growing countries are not included in the top 30 countries by total Facebook users.
Update - December 31st 2009 - Facebook usage statistics by country
Here is a list of the 20 countries with the fastest growing number of Facebook users:
Update - December 31st 2009 - Facebook usage statistics by country
Here is a list of the 20 countries with the fastest growing number of Facebook users:
| Rank | Country | Number of Facebook users July 2008 | Number of Facebook users July 2009 | 12 month growth % |
| 1 | Indonesia | 209,760 | 6,496,960 | 2997.2% |
| 2 | Romania | 9,060 | 230,600 | 2445.3% |
| 3 | Slovakia | 27,960 | 588,860 | 2006.1% |
| 4 | Czech Rep | 51,860 | 1,088,020 | 2005.3% |
| 5 | Italy | 491,100 | 10,218,400 | 1980.7% |
| 6 | Philippines | 162,640 | 2,719,560 | 1572.13% |
| 7 | Argentina | 417,980 | 4,906,220 | 1073.8% |
| 8 | Uruguay | 40,920 | 395,800 | 867.3% |
| 9 | Taiwan | 71,340 | 685,460 | 860.8% |
| 10 | Portugal | 48,180 | 425,680 | 783.5% |
| 11 | Brazil | 119,080 | 1,015,400 | 752.7% |
| 12 | Spain | 695,900 | 5,773,200 | 729.6% |
| 13 | Paraguay | 7,920 | 63,740 | 704.8% |
| 14 | Poland | 83,180 | 619,180 | 644.4% |
| 15 | Bulgaria | 60,240 | 436,480 | 624.6% |
| 16 | Austria | 111,060 | 728,800 | 556.2% |
| 17 | Slovenia | 53,740 | 343,320 | 538.9% |
| 18 | Lithuania | 24,320 | 153,160 | 529.8% |
| 19 | Thailand | 114,180 | 697,340 | 510.7% |
| 20 | Russia | 67,760 | 412,840 | 509.3% |
(*Facebook Usage Figures taken from Facebook - 1st July 2008 vs 1st July 2009)
It is interesting to see how many of these countries are not in the top 30 countries by volume of Facebook users. The rapid Facebook growth in the countries above also indicates that a new wave of Facebook usage expansion is imminent. In the Far East Facebook has started to take hold and Facebook is quickly growing in popularity in Eastern Europe.
The ones to watch though are the BRIC countries. Facebook is showing signs of hitting critical mass in Russia, Brazil has just passed the million Facebook users mark and India / China have had rapid growth in recent weeks.
It might not be too long before Facebook hits 300 million users......
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6 comments:
Nice info gan!
Your research is very useful, do you know by info about other social media such as twitter, friendster or Kaskus.us?
Hello Mr. Nick...
Thanks for sharing.
Great information!
it's really useful info for me, coz now im doing my dissertation about mobile VAS usage in Indonesia, and mobile Social Networking is one of the area that i discuss on it.
I am trying to figurate how to get a list of largest fanpages for a specific country and in local languages. Anyone here that have an idea how to?
Regards
Jonas
Great data. Will post it on FB. Thanks.
I have just posted the latest Facebook Usage statistics by country for July 2010 figures are compared to July 2009 and July 2008.
Please leave all questions about other countries on this new post.
Latest Facebook usage statistics by country now published here (April 2011)
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