As of February 2025, one in five global Snapchat users were men between the ages of 18 and 24 years, whilst women of the same age made up 17.2 percent of all users, making this age group the photo app's main target market. Additionally, almost 20 percent of users were between the ages of 13 and 17 years. Overall, people over 35 years are substantially less likely to use Snapchat. Snapchat’s global users Snapchat has experienced significant increases in global audience size in recent years. In 2022, Snapchat had over *** million users, an increase of over *** percent when compared with the number of users in 2018. By 2027, it is estimated that *** million people will be using the app. As of January 2024, India was home to almost *** million Snapchat users, whilst the United States and Pakistan had *** million and ** million users, respectively. Snapchat+ subscription Snapchat released a paid version of the service in June 2022, offering pre-release and experimental features to those willing to pay **** U.S. dollars per month. As of the fourth quarter of 2023, around ***** million users were subscribing to Snapchat+. Snapchat is not the only social platform to have introduced a subscription option. Meta Verified, X/Twitter Blue, and Reddit also present advantages to users in exchange for a monthly charge.

As of the third quarter of 2020, 48 percent of U.S. internet users aged 15 to 25 years used photo sharing app Snapchat. Snapchat usage in the United States Since spring 2016, Snapchat consistently ranks as the most important social network for teenagers in the United States. In spring 2019, 41 percent of teenage survey respondents stated that the photo messaging app was their preferred social network. However, the popularity of Snapchat among its key user demographic is in decline and this also holds true for the general Snapchat audience in the United States. In 2018, 79.7 million U.S. users accessed the photo messaging app to communicate. This figure is projected to decrease to 78.1 million users in 2023. As of March 2019, Snapchat had a 26.3 percent mobile audience reach in the United States, ranking behind several competitors such as Facebook, Instagram and Facebook Messenger. In terms of monthly user engagement, Snapchat still ranked ahead of eternal rival Instagram but was trailing digital juggernaut Facebook and rapidly trending video sharing app TikTok.

Snapchat now boasts over 319 million daily active users. That means it’s one of the most engaging platforms. Snapchat currently has a total user base of 800 million.

Steady growth is forecast for Snapchat over the next four years in the United Kingdom. Having claimed a total of **** million users nationwide in 2019, the video-based social media app is expected to hit **** million users by 2024 – amounting to a total growth of *** million users during this period.

Driven by Gen Z

Nearly ** percent of Snapchat’s users are teenagers and young adults aged between 15 to 25 years - in other words, Gen Z, while the app’s second largest user base (about ** percent) consists of Millennials up to 35 years of age. As a general trend, the use of social networks in the UK fell with increasing age despite a healthy ** percent of ** to 64-year-olds claiming to have social media profiles as of that same year.

Teens and young adults are most open to social media marketing

Gen Z is also relatively open toward social media marketing, with ** percent of those surveyed in 2019 saying they followed brands on social media platforms for offers and discounts while a further ** percent did so for product updates. When it came to the younger generation however, only ** percent of those below ** used Snapchat. Here, YouTube emerged as the top app of choice for ** percent of those who responded.

The average Snapchat user spends just 3 hours per month on the app.

As of the first quarter of 2025, photo and video sharing app Snapchat had 460 million daily active users worldwide, up from 460 million global DAU in the fourth quarter of 2024. The app has seen steady increases in daily active users since the beginning of 2019. Snapchat is relevant for teenagers Originally launched in 2011, Snapchat has become one of the most popular social messaging and photo sharing apps worldwide; making its CEO and co-founder Evan Spiegel one of the world’s richest social media entrepreneurs. With almost 800 million active users as of April 2024, Snapchat easily ranks among the most popular social networks worldwide. According to U.S. teenagers in fall 2023, Snapchat is the second most important social network of their generation, ahead of photo sharing competitor Instagram and other networks such as Twitter or Facebook. Overall, 48 percent of U.S. internet users aged 15 to 25 years were reportedly using Snapchat, the highest usage reach among any age group. When it comes to user satisfaction with social media, Snapchat’s performance is fair to middling. According to recent survey data, the social app scored 72 out of 100 points on a consumer satisfaction scale, ranking ahead of Twitter and Facebook but behind Pinterest and eternal rival Instagram.

Snapchat has a reach into 75% of the millenial and Gen Z audience.

The number of snapchat users in the United States was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2028 by in total 5.7 million users (+5.3 percent). After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the snapchat user base is estimated to reach 113.3 million users and therefore a new peak in 2028. Notably, the number of snapchat users of was continuously increasing over the past years.The user numbers, depicted here regarding the platform Snapchat, have been estimated by taking into account company filings or press material, secondary research, app downloads and traffic data. They refer to the average monthly active users over the period and count multiple accounts by persons only once.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).Find more key insights for the number of snapchat users in countries like Canada and Mexico.

The global number of snapchat users in was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2028 by in total 165.7 million users (+27 percent). After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the snapchat user base is estimated to reach 779.3 million users and therefore a new peak in 2028. Notably, the number of snapchat users of was continuously increasing over the past years.The user numbers, depicted here regarding the platform Snapchat, have been estimated by taking into account company filings or press material, secondary research, app downloads and traffic data. They refer to the average monthly active users over the period and count multiple accounts by persons only once.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).Find more key insights for the number of snapchat users in countries like Africa and the Americas.

As of the fourth quarter of 2023, ** percent of women aged between 18 and 29 years in Norway were using social media app Snapchat. Overall, ** percent of men belonging to this age group were also using the platform. Snapchat was less popular amongst those aged 60 years and older, with an average usage of ** percent in this demographic. Additionally, the photo-based app proved more successful with women across all age categories.  Who uses social media the most?  A 2022 survey found that ** percent of Norwegian women were Facebook users, as were ** percent were men. Similarly, ** percent of women and ** percent of men in Norway used Snapchat users. In contrast, ** percent of LinkedIn and ** percent of men were Twitter users.  Snapchat in the Nordics  As of January 2024, Norway had the largest Snapchat reach among the Nordic countries, with more than ** percent of its digital population reporting engaging with the video sharing platform. As of the fourth quarter of 2022, five out of every 10 Norwegian Snapchat users reported using it on a daily basis. Only **** percent of the respondents claimed they used the messaging app monthly or less often.

The average Twitter user spends 5.1 hours per month on the platform.

YouTube boasts an average of 23.7 hours per month spent by users.

Users spend an average of 19.6 hours per month on TikTok alone. This works out to be approximately 39 minutes per day.

There are over 875 million registered users on LinkedIn in 2024.

There are over 2 billion registered users on Instagram in 2025.

I’ve compiled a list of the latest social media user statistics showing just how big social media has become and where it’s likely to go in the future.

36.6% of Twitter users are aged 25-34 and make up the biggest age group on the platform. Only 2.4% of Twitter users are aged 13-17.

As of April 2025, almost 32 percent of global Instagram audiences were aged between 25 and 34 years, and 29.5 percent of users were aged between 25 and 34 years. Overall, 16.3 percent of users belonged to the 35 to 44 year age group. Instagram users With roughly one billion monthly active users, Instagram belongs to the most popular social networks worldwide. The social photo sharing app is especially popular in India and in the United States, which have respectively 413.85 million and 171.7 million Instagram users each. Instagram features One of the most popular features of Instagram is Stories. Users can post photos and videos to their Stories stream and the content is live for others to view for 24 hours before it disappears. In January 2019, the company reported that there were 500 million daily active Instagram Stories users. Instagram Stories directly competes with Snapchat, another photo sharing app that initially became famous due to it’s “vanishing photos” feature. As of the first quarter of 2025, Snapchat had 460 million daily active users.

Facebook is fast approaching 3 billion monthly active users. That’s about 36% of the world’s entire population that log in and use Facebook at least once a month.

80% of parents say that their children under the age of 11 watch YouTube regularly.