This statistic displays the share of unfavorable views of China as of May 2024 in 35 countries. During the survey period, around 71 percent of respondents in South Korea had a negative opinion of China.

This graph shows the share of French expatriates living in the main French expatriation destinations worldwide in 2018. It appears that nine percent of French expatriates lived in Germany.

Context

Spotify is one of the most popular music streaming services worldwide. One of the reason why it is loved by most is because of its amazing collection of playlists. It also gives an option to surf through Top 50 songs charts which are widely used by users. I extracted data from Spotify's website using Selenium and BeautifulSoup and tabulated the songs present in "Top 50 songs by Country" charts (62 countries).

Content

The dataset contains 8 columns :- 1. Country - Country name or "Global" 2. Continent - Continent name or "Global" 3. Rank - Rank of song on particular country chart 4. Title - Title of song 5. Artists - Artists involved in song 6. Album - Album name of song 7. Explicit - If song is explicit or not? 8. Duration - Duration of song

Acknowledgements

This dataset is extracted only for educational purposes with no intention to plagiarise. All rights go to the authors (Spotify).

Inspiration

This dataset can be helpful for the analysis of song preferences among different countries. Preferences include duration and likability for explicit content. It can also be used to track the influence of music originated from one country on others, or to check the popularity of a particular artist, etc.

As of February 2025, China ranked first among the countries with the most internet users worldwide. The world's most populated country had 1.11 billion internet users, more than triple the third-ranked United States, with just around 322 million internet users. Overall, all BRIC markets had over two billion internet users, accounting for four of the ten countries with more than 100 million internet users. Worldwide internet usage As of October 2024, there were more than five billion internet users worldwide. There are, however, stark differences in user distribution according to region. Eastern Asia is home to 1.34 billion internet users, while African and Middle Eastern regions had lower user figures. Moreover, the urban areas showed a higher percentage of internet access than rural areas. Internet use in China China ranks first in the list of countries with the most internet users. Due to its ongoing and fast-paced economic development and a cultural inclination towards technology, more than a billion of the estimated 1.4 billion population in China are online. As of the third quarter of 2023, around 87 percent of Chinese internet users stated using WeChat, the most popular social network in the country. On average, Chinese internet users spent five hours and 33 minutes online daily.

The average for 2021 based on 121 countries was 22.26 percent. The highest value was in Canada: 82.74 percent and the lowest value was in Afghanistan: 0 percent. The indicator is available from 2011 to 2021. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Social network X/Twitter is particularly popular in the United States, and as of February 2025, the microblogging service had an audience reach of 103.9 million users in the country. Japan and the India were ranked second and third with more than 70 million and 25 million users respectively. Global Twitter usage As of the second quarter of 2021, X/Twitter had 206 million monetizable daily active users worldwide. The most-followed Twitter accounts include figures such as Elon Musk, Justin Bieber and former U.S. president Barack Obama. X/Twitter and politics X/Twitter has become an increasingly relevant tool in domestic and international politics. The platform has become a way to promote policies and interact with citizens and other officials, and most world leaders and foreign ministries have an official Twitter account. Former U.S. president Donald Trump used to be a prolific Twitter user before the platform permanently suspended his account in January 2021. During an August 2018 survey, 61 percent of respondents stated that Trump's use of Twitter as President of the United States was inappropriate.

Which county has the most Facebook users? There are more than 383 million Facebook users in India alone, making it the leading country in terms of Facebook audience size. To put this into context, if India’s Facebook audience were a country, then it would be ranked third in terms of largest population worldwide. Apart from India, there are several other markets with more than 100 million Facebook users each: The United States, Indonesia, and Brazil with 196.9 million, 122.3 million, and 111.65 million Facebook users respectively. Facebook – the most used social media Meta, the company that was previously called Facebook, owns four of the most popular social media platforms worldwide, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Facebook, and Instagram. As of the third quarter of 2021, there were around 3.5 billion cumulative monthly users of the company’s products worldwide. With around 2.9 billion monthly active users, Facebook is the most popular social media worldwide. With an audience of this scale, it is no surprise that the vast majority of Facebook’s revenue is generated through advertising. Facebook usage by device As of July 2021, it was found that 98.5 percent of active users accessed their Facebook account from mobile devices. In fact, almost 81.8 percent of Facebook audiences worldwide access the platform only via mobile phone. Facebook is not only available through mobile browser as the company has published several mobile apps for users to access their products and services. As of the third quarter 2021, the four core Meta products were leading the ranking of most downloaded mobile apps worldwide, with WhatsApp amassing approximately six billion downloads.

According to a survey of global internet audiences in the third quarter of 2024, 83.6 percent of internet users played video games on any device. The Philippines had the highest video gaming usage reach, ranking first with a gaming penetration of 96.6 percent. Indonesia ranked second, with 96.4 percent of responding internet users stating that they played video games. The United Kingdom and Japan ranked last, with 71.1 and 64.4 percent of internet users, respectively, reporting their participation in video gaming. The impact of mobile gaming The global gaming penetration among online users was over 83 percent, highlighting how much of a mainstream hobby gaming has become. Additionally, as shown by the many mobile-first digital markets with strong gaming reach, the impact of readily available mobile gaming devices cannot be overstated. A survey from the third quarter of 2024 found that smartphones were the most popular way to play video games worldwide, with more than 67 percent of respondents stating to play video games in such a way. This usage rate was miles ahead of second-ranked laptop or desktop PCs, which only 34 percent of global gamers stated to use. Who are the global gaming audiences? A survey conducted in the third quarter of 2023 found that 89.6 percent of female internet users aged 16 to 24 years worldwide played video games on any kind of device. During the survey period, 92.6 percent of male respondents in the same age group stated that they played video games. Gaming is a more popular activity among younger age groups, but even seven in ten respondents between 55 and 64 years old stated that they were gamers. Gaming genre preferences vary by age group, but overall, shooters and action-adventure games rank first in terms of popularity among users. Other popular gaming genres were simulation and sports games.

This statistic shows the ranking of the ten leading international holiday destinations in 2014, by number of visitors. France, which welcomed just under 84 million tourists in 2014, remained the first holiday destination in the world. The United States and Spain were also popular destinations, with almost 75 and 65 million tourists, respectively.

Descriptive statistics for all mainstreaminess definitions for all users in the dataset with country information (47 countries with at least 100 users).

The US has historically been the target country for Twitter since its launch in 2006. This is the full breakdown of Twitter users by country.

Country names are abbreviated according to ISO 3166-1 alpha-2.

As of February 2025, India had a total of 413.85 million Instagram users, the largest Instagram audience in the world. The United States had 171.7 million users, and Brazil had 140.7 million. Indonesia, Turkey, and Japan ranked in fourth, fifth and sixth position, respectively. Kazakhstan is the leading country for Instagram audience reach, with 86.2 percent of the population using the social media service. Turkey came in second, with a penetration rate of 85.5 percent and Uruguay ranked third, with 87.1 percent, followed closely by the UAE, Brazil, and Bahrain. It took Instagram 11.2 years to reach the milestone of 2 billion monthly active users worldwide. WhatsApp, also owned by Meta, took 11 years, whilst Facebook took 13.3 years and YouTube took just over 14 years. Instagram’s demographics in the United States As of March 2025, Instagram was the fourth most visited social media service in the United States, after Facebook, Pinterest and X. Out of TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat, TikTok was the most used of all three platforms by Generation Z. Overall, 57 percent of Gen Z social media users used Instagram in 2021, down from 61 percent in 2020 and 64 percent in 2019. Instagram finds most popularity with those in the 25 to 34 year age group, and as of January 2025, roughly 28.3 of all users in the United States belonged to this age group. The social media app was also more likely to be used by women. Most followed accounts on Instagram Instagram’s official account had the most followers as of April 2024 with over 672 million followers. Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo (@cristiano) had over 628 million followers on the platform, while the Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi (@leomessi) had over 502 million followers. The Instagram accounts of the American singer and actress Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) and the media personality and makeup mogul Kylie Jenner (@kyliejenner) had over 400 million followers each.

Data from Fortune 500's 2023 ranking.
Includes data on top 1000 companies w/ additional info (Stock symbol/*ticker*, CEO name).

Update (New dataset): 2024 Fortune 1000 Companies

What Is the Fortune 1000?

From Investopedia:

The Fortune 1000 is an annual list of the 1000 largest American companies maintained by the popular magazine Fortune Fortune ranks the eligible companies by revenue generated from core operations, discounted operations, and consolidated subsidiaries Since revenue is the basis for inclusion, every company is authorized to operate in the United States and files a 10-K or comparable financial statement with a government agency -- .

Project Background

Fortune magazine publishes this list every year and some lists can be found from different sources. From looking at this year's available datasets, some features were missing or could not be found. This was built from scraping the standard features as well as what's included on Company Info (such as CEO, Ticker and website) from the Fortune magazine website. Details on how the data was generated can be found on this notebook where a few of the features were also visualized.

The source code from the 2023 fortune 500 Ranking includes 1000 companies. A reference page (slug) to additional info is included for each companies which were also scrapped to complete the dataset.

The Dataset

Available formats: csv, parquet

Features are follows:

[Note: References to datatypes are relevant when using the parquet file; Labels refer to the original website names]

• Rank
    dtype: int64; Label: Rank
• Company
    dtype: object; Label: Company
• Ticker
    dtype: object; Label: Ticker
• Sector
    dtype: category; Label: Sector
• Industry
    dtype: category; Label: Industry
• Profitable
    dtype: category; Label: Profitable
• Founder_is_CEO
    dtype: category; Label: Founder is CEO
• FemaleCEO
    dtype: category; Label: Female CEO
• Growth_in_Jobs
    dtype: category; Label: Growth in Jobs
• Change_in_Rank
    dtype: float64; Label: Change in Rank (Full 1000)
• Gained_in_Rank
    dtype: category; Label: Gained in Rank
• Dropped_in_Rank
    dtype: category; Label: Dropped in Rank
• Newcomer_to_the_Fortune500
    dtype: category; Label: Newcomer to the Fortune 500
• Global500
    dtype: category; Label: Global 500
• Best_Companies
    dtype: category; Label: Best Companies
• Number_of_employees
    dtype: int64; Label: Employees
• MarketCap_March31_M
    dtype: float64; Label: Market Value — as of March 31, 2023 ($M)
• Revenues_M
    dtype: int64; Label: Revenues ($M)
• RevenuePercentChange
    dtype: float64; Label: Revenue Percent Change
• Profits_M
    dtype: int64; Label: Profits ($M)
• ProfitsPercentChange
    dtype: float64; Label: Profits Percent Change
• Assets_M
    dtype: int64; Label: Assets ($M)
• CEO
    dtype: object; Label: CEO
• Country
    dtype: category; Label: Country
• HeadquartersCity
    dtype: object; Label: Headquarters City
• HeadquartersState
    dtype: category; Label: Headquarters State
• Website
    dtype: object; Label: Website
• CompanyType
    dtype: category; Label: Company type
• Footnote
    dtype: object; Label: Footnote
• MarketCap_Updated_M
    dtype: float64; Label: Market value ($M)
• Updated
    dtype: datetime64[ns]; Label: Updated Click to add a cell.

Differences to the mainstream are given according to the sliding window approach and the global difference approach, using APC to measure popularity.

Kik is now the 8th most popular mobile messaging app in the United States as of September 2019 when ranked by monthly active users.

Terms are explained in the text.

Differences to the mainstream are given according to the sliding window approach and the global difference approach, using APC to measure popularity.

The number of international tourist arrivals worldwide rose sharply in 2023 compared to the previous year across all the most visited destinations in the world. Overall, France was the most visited country by inbound travelers worldwide in 2023, with *** million international tourist arrivals. Spain, the United States, and Italy followed in the ranking that year. Has global inbound tourism recovered from the impact of COVID-19? In 2023, the number of international tourist arrivals worldwide totaled approximately *** billion. While this figure represented a ** percent annual increase, it remained below the peak in inbound tourist arrivals reported in 2019, the year before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. That said, international tourism receipts worldwide exceeded pre-pandemic levels in 2023, peaking at *** trillion U.S. dollars. What are the most popular global regions for inbound tourism? When breaking down the number of international tourist arrivals worldwide by region, Europe has consistently reported the highest volume of inbound travelers, both before and after the impact of the health crisis. In 2023, this region alone accounted for roughly ** percent of global inbound tourist arrivals. Meanwhile, Asia and the Pacific recorded the second-highest number of inbound tourist arrivals worldwide in 2023.

As of February 2025, the United States was the region with the largest TikTok audience by far, with almost ****** million users engaging with the popular social video platform. Indonesia followed, with around ***** million TikTok users. Brazil came in third, with almost ***** million users on TikTok watching short-videos. From Reels to Shorts: social short video takes the internet Between 2021 and 2022 some of the most popular social media platforms have been adding short-video features on the heels of TikTok’s popularity. YouTube Shorts, which rolled out to the global market in June 2021, reached *** billion monthly active logged-in users in 2023. In comparison, Instagram’s short-video format Reels, which launched in August 2020, presented a higher view rate than regular videos on the platform between June 2021 and June 2022, as well as a higher likes rate than other content types on Instagram. TikTok business model TikTok is owned by the Beijing-based ByteDance, along with the short-video app Douyin (TikTok’s version for the Chinese market), video platform Xigua, and popular news app Toutiao. While the products intended for domestic market consumption operate in the Chinese digital ecosystem and have a plurality of established monetization methods such as a live-shopping events hosted by famous influencers, TikTok’s main revenue stream comes from online advertising. In 2022, TikTok was estimated to have generated around **** billion U.S. dollars worldwide via online advertising.