Over the last year Facebook has continued to grow significantly, with the fastest growing markets now being seen in Asia. There has also been strong growth in Mexico, Eastern Europe, Brazil and India - can Facebook keep growing like this through 2011? (Russia is one to watch too - currently at number 31 in the list and showing 2 year growth of +2519% with 3.2m Facebook users now.)
Latest Facebook usage figures - Dec 2011 here
The table below shows the top 30 countries by number of active Facebook users with end of year 2010 Facebook user information compared to end of year 2009 and end of year 2008 Facebook usage statistics (leave a comment if you want to know statistics for other countries.)
Here are the Top 30 countries with highest number of Facebook users (31st Dec 2010 - data from Facebook):
Latest Facebook usage figures - Dec 2011 here
The table below shows the top 30 countries by number of active Facebook users with end of year 2010 Facebook user information compared to end of year 2009 and end of year 2008 Facebook usage statistics (leave a comment if you want to know statistics for other countries.)
Here are the Top 30 countries with highest number of Facebook users (31st Dec 2010 - data from Facebook):
| Rank | Country | Number of Facebook users Dec 31st 2008 | Number of Facebook users Dec 31st 2009 | Number of Facebook users Dec 31st 2010 | 12 month growth % | 24 month growth % |
| 1 | USA | 42,078,960 | 101,303,240 | 145,749,580 | 43.9% | 246.4% |
| 2 | Indonesia | 897,040 | 14,681,580 | 32,129,460 | 118.8% | 3481.7% |
| 3 | UK | 14,937,180 | 22,625,300 | 28,661,600 | 26.7% | 91.9% |
| 4 | Turkey | 7,934,340 | 16,943,780 | 24,163,600 | 42.6% | 204.5% |
| 5 | France | 6,587,240 | 14,290,700 | 20,469,420 | 43.2% | 210.7% |
| 6 | Philippines | 390,700 | 8,387,560 | 18,901,900 | 125.4% | 4738% |
| 7 | Mexico | 1,440,640 | 6,505,040 | 18,488,700 | 184.2% | 1183.4% |
| 8 | Italy | 5,585,700 | 13,272,760 | 17,812,800 | 34.2% | 218.9% |
| 9 | India | 1,071,280 | 5,397,480 | 17,288,900 | 220.3% | 1513.9% |
| 10 | Canada | 10,862,040 | 14,228,460 | 17,288,620 | 21.5% | 59.2% |
| 11 | Germany | 1,255,480 | 5,799,520 | 13,678,200 | 135.9% | 989.5% |
| 12 | Argentina | 2,255,300 | 7,387,120 | 12,359,260 | 67.3% | 448% |
| 13 | Spain | 2,596,080 | 7,701,200 | 12,235,080 | 58.9% | 371.3% |
| 14 | Colombia | 3,632,760 | 7,243,520 | 11,665,860 | 61.1% | 221.1% |
| 15 | Australia | 4,330,040 | 7,611,920 | 9,661,720 | 26.9% | 123.1% |
| 16 | Malaysia | 850,420 | 3,975,640 | 9,544,580 | 140.1% | 1022.3% |
| 17 | Brazil | 209,460 | 2,413,900 | 8,821,880 | 265.5% | 4111.7% |
| 18 | Taiwan | 112,900 | 5,490,300 | 8,752,640 | 59.4% | 7652.6% |
| 19 | Chile | 4,153,060 | 5,808,020 | 7,586,060 | 30.6% | 82.7% |
| 20 | Venezuela | 1,874,220 | 4,952,340 | 7,552,760 | 52.5% | 303% |
| 21 | Thailand | 168,720 | 1,963,560 | 6,732,780 | 242.9% | 3890.5% |
| 22 | Egypt | 822,560 | 2,341,880 | 4,634,300 | 97.9% | 463.4% |
| 23 | Poland | 194,820 | 1,609,100 | 4,540,320 | 182.2% | 2230.5% |
| 24 | Sweden | 1,696,700 | 3,066,180 | 4,042,260 | 31.8% | 138.2% |
| 25 | Peru | 296,200 | 1,510,480 | 3,888,560 | 157.4% | 1212.8% |
| 26 | Belgium | 1,655,940 | 2,872,160 | 3,850,300 | 34.1% | 132.5% |
| 27 | Hong Kong | 1,458,520 | 2,727,980 | 3,673,580 | 34.7% | 151.9% |
| 28 | South Africa | 920,200 | 2,434,500 | 3,422,920 | 40.6% | 272% |
| 29 | Netherlands | 351,280 | 1,689,480 | 3,417,540 | 102.3% | 872.9% |
| 30 | Saudi Arabia | 326,180 | 1,421,980 | 3,274,460 | 130.3% | 903.9% |
[*figures are taken from Facebook and then compared to Facebook usage statistics lists that I have previously compiled (allowing the 12 month and 24 month comparisons.)]
As always, if you want to know the latest Facebook usage statistics for another country (and data is now published for almost every country in the world), leave a comment in the post below and I will post the relevant Facebook user statistics data.
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34 comments:
I would like to know the situation for Romania? Thamk You very much
I would like to know the situation for Romania
Can you update the user stats for the Bahamas please?
I did map: percentage of Facebook users around the world, I was able to find data for about 150 countries http://russiansphinx.blogspot.com/2010/08/who-loves-facebook.html
Facebook develops so quickly that now I will have to update the map. Thank you Nick for info that new data are available.
In some Central American countries percentage of Facebook users is almost the same as percentage of internet users. That is impressive :) and map of internet usage http://russiansphinx.blogspot.com/2010/08/geography-of-worlds-internet.html
I am looking for the statistics for The Netherlands, but only for college/university students in The Netherlands. Is there anyway to get insight in those statistics?
It's very interesting that Indonesia is number two.
I would like to know the situation for Slovakia, thanx
I would like to know about KOREA's information
Really useful, thank you for compiling!
I'd like to know info for GCC countries if possible!
how many users are in japan right now?!
do u have other statistics about user from ebay or amazon?!
greetz
Hey can u please tell me the latest statistics for Pakistan ?? Also, could u tell me the percentage of facebook users in pakistan in different age groups?
Hi there! Can I have the FB stats for Singapore based users?
Stats for Norway, please?
China please!
Answers to your requests!
Romania 2.2m users, + 357% vs Dec 2009
Bahamas 139,460, + 48.9% on Dec 2010
Slovakia 1,582,020 +54.6% year on year
South Korea 2,473,540 +511.4% y on y
Japan 1,816,140 +127.5% y on y (but FB still struggling to get traction)
Pakistan 3,119,440 +124% y on y
Singapore 2,437,520 +34% y on y
Norway 2,443,500 +8.3% year on year
China 119,480 +88.9% y on y (but Facebook subject to access restrictions)
Note I just have total user numbers and can't (easily) pull demographic data.
Figures are all taken from Facebook.
How many people are using Facebook in North Korea?
south africa please? 2009 & 2010 so I can project growth. Thanks so much for this!
I would like to know the situation for Moldova, Republic of
Thanks Nick
Taiwan has 7652.6% of 24 month growth.... omg
How many people are using Facebook in Nepal?
Hey Nick, where can I get the original data? Where did you get it? Can you post a link to it please?
Thanks!
Please can you give me the figures for the following countries:
Cuba
Madagascar
Namibia
Haiti
Austria
I work in a school in the UK and we are doing an extensive quiz in which one of the questions is Facebook usage in these countries.
Many Thanks
And the situation for Bolivia??
Statistics for Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana please.
Hi Nick,
Thank you for posting this extremely useful info.
Could I have info (including rankings) on:
Bulgaria,
Portugal,
Iceland,
Ireland,
Switzerland please.
Many thanks for your help,
Donagh
Hello Nick!
It would be very kind of you if you could add some stats from south american countries that haven´t been mentioned before, such as Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, Ecuador. I need the information for a High School research. Thanks buddy!
can i have VN stats?
Latest Facebook usage statistics by country now published here (April 2011)
Could i have the number of users for Denmark, FInalnd, Hungary, Iceland, and Japan for 2008 please? Thank you soooo much! This is really important, and i really appreciate your help!
Thanks, great content
I'd like to know Kenya statistics
Latest Facebook statistics by country 31st Dec 2011 here
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