Latest Facebook usage statistics by country - 12 months of extraordinary global growth

I have been monitoring Facebook usage statistics and the last 12 months has seen extraordinary global growth.

New - July 2010 Facebook usage statistics by country compared to July 2009 and July 2008 here

(Also check fastest growing countries on Facebook here)

- On 1st July 2008, Facebook were reporting 82,451,680 active users, Facebook figures now show that Facebook has 233,864,820 global users.

- Facebook growth has come everywhere. USA Facebook users have increased by 41,567,420, but Facebook has also seen a growth rate of 3000% in Indonesia!

- In July 2008 11 countries had more than 1 million Facebook users, now 33 countries have more than 1 million Facebook users.

- Explosion in Facebook users numbers was seen in Western Europe (France, Spain etc) and South America (eg Chile) in the second half of 2008 (though numbers are still growing).

- More recently the fastest growing Facebook markets have been in Eastern Europe (eg Czech Republic), the Far East (Indonesia etc) and, significantly for Orkut, Brazil and India

Here are the Top 30 countries with highest number of Facebook users (2nd July 2009 - data from Facebook):

Rank	Country	Number of Facebook users	12 month growth %	6 month growth %
1	USA	69,378,980	149.5%	64.9%
2	UK	18,711,160	67.5%	25.3%
3	Turkey	12,382,320	257.4%	56.1%
4	Canada	11,961,020	24.3%	10.1%
5	France	10,781,480	338.1%	63.7%
6	Italy	10,218,400	1980.7%	82.9%
7	Indonesia	6,496,960	2997.3%	624.3%
8	Australia	6,053,560	88.2%	39.8%
9	Spain	5,773,200	729.6%	122.3%
10	Colombia	5,760,300	138.8%	58.6%
11	Argentina	4,906,220	1073.8%	117.5%
12	Chile	4,830,680	129.4%	16.3%
13	Mexico	3,644,400	249.5%	153%
14	Venezuela	3,578,740	270.2%	91%
15	India	3,236,140	354.8%	202.1%
16	Germany	3,136,680	407.5%	149.9%
17	Philippines	2,719,560	1572.1%	596.1%
18	Belgium	2,372,460	346.2%	43.3%
19	Sweden	2,287,240	100.3%	34.8%
20	Hong Kong	2,087,580	149.1%	43.1%
21	Malaysia	1,995,040	342.8%	134.6%
22	Denmark	1,961,880	152.4%	10.5%
23	Norway	1,853,840	58.4%	27.3%
24	South Africa	1,720,820	96%	87%
25	Greece	1,638,980	224.6%	64%
26	Egypt	1,618,040	106.5%	96.7%
27	Switzerland	1,491,940	280.1%	32.9%
28	Israel	1,433,540	142.2%	66.4%
29	Singapore	1,384,760	198%	87.1%
30	Finland	1,097,600	109.9%	19.4%

If you want to know the latest Facebook usage statistics for another country, leave a comment in the post below and I will post the relevant data.

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