During the first quarter of 2025, online forum and news aggregator Reddit saw approximately 108.1 million daily active users (DAU) engaging with its platform. Of these, over 59.4 million users were not logged in and accessed the platform's content without proving they registered to Reddit. This represents an increase of approximately 6.8 percent compared to the previous quarter, when Reddit saw 55.6 million logged-off DAU.

Social media platform Reddit reported approximately 57 million daily active users (DAU) as of December 2022. This represents an increase of seven million active users engaging with the platform daily compared to the data reported at the beginning of 2022. In 2020, Reddit reported 430 million monthly active users, up by the 330 million MAU reported as of January 2019.

This statistic shows the number of logged-in Reddit users in the United States from 2017 to 2025. In 2020, it was reported that ** million users accessed their account on the social news aggregation website. This figure is projected to rise to ** million users in 2025.

During the first quarter of 2025, Reddit saw approximately 50 million daily active users (DAU) in the United States. In comparison, 58 million online users in the rest of the global market engaged with Reddit content daily in the last examined quarter. Between the beginning of 2021 and the end of 2024, the number of global daily active users engaging with Reddit experienced a moderate but constant increase.

Reddit is a social news, content rating and discussion website. It's one of the most popular sites on the internet. Reddit has 52 million daily active users and approximately 430 million users who use it once a month. Reddit has different subreddits and here We'll use the r/AskScience Subreddit.

The dataset is extracted from the subreddit /r/AskScience from Reddit. The data was collected between 01-01-2016 and 20-05-2022. It contains 612,668 Datapoints and 25 Columns. The database contains a number of information about the questions asked on the subreddit, the description of the submission, the flair of the question, NSFW or SFW status, the year of the submission, and more. The data is extracted using python and Pushshift's API. A little bit of cleaning is done using NumPy and pandas as well. (see the descriptions of individual columns below).

The dataset contains the following columns and descriptions: author - Redditor Name author_fullname - Redditor Full name contest_mode - Contest mode [implement obscured scores and randomized sorting]. created_utc - Time the submission was created, represented in Unix Time. domain - Domain of submission. edited - If the post is edited or not. full_link - Link of the post on the subreddit. id - ID of the submission. is_self - Whether or not the submission is a self post (text-only). link_flair_css_class - CSS Class used to identify the flair. link_flair_text - Flair on the post or The link flair’s text content. locked - Whether or not the submission has been locked. num_comments - The number of comments on the submission. over_18 - Whether or not the submission has been marked as NSFW. permalink - A permalink for the submission. retrieved_on - time ingested. score - The number of upvotes for the submission. description - Description of the Submission. spoiler - Whether or not the submission has been marked as a spoiler. stickied - Whether or not the submission is stickied. thumbnail - Thumbnail of Submission. question - Question Asked in the Submission. url - The URL the submission links to, or the permalink if a self post. year - Year of the Submission. banned - Banned by the moderator or not.

This dataset can be used for Flair Prediction, NSFW Classification, and different Text Mining/NLP tasks. Exploratory Data Analysis can also be done to get the insights and see the trend and patterns over the years.

As of the fourth quarter of 2021, the Reddit mobile app was counting more than ** million daily active users (DAU) worldwide on iOS. In comparison, daily active Reddit users via Android mobile app amounted to only *** million. In the first half of 2020, the number of daily Reddit app users on iOS increased by 43 percent, going from roughly *** million users in the first quarter of 2020 to *** million the following quarter.

The number of Reddit users in the United States was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2028 by in total 10.3 million users (+5.21 percent). After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the Reddit user base is estimated to reach 208.12 million users and therefore a new peak in 2028. Notably, the number of Reddit users of was continuously increasing over the past years.User figures, shown here with regards to the platform reddit, 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. Reddit users encompass both users that are logged in and those that are not.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 Reddit users in countries like Mexico and Canada.

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Abstract

The World Wide Web is a complex interconnected digital ecosystem, where information and attention flow between platforms and communities throughout the globe. These interactions co-construct how we understand the world, reflecting and shaping public discourse. Unfortunately, researchers often struggle to understand how information circulates and evolves across the web because platform-specific data is often siloed and restricted by linguistic barriers. To address this gap, we present a comprehensive, multilingual dataset capturing all Wikipedia links shared in posts and comments on Reddit from 2020 to 2023, excluding those from private and NSFW subreddits. Each linked Wikipedia article is enriched with revision history, page view data, article ID, redirects, and Wikidata identifiers. Through a research agreement with Reddit, our dataset ensures user privacy while providing a query and ID mechanism that integrates with the Reddit and Wikipedia APIs. This enables extended analyses for researchers studying how information flows across platforms. For example, Reddit discussions use Wikipedia for deliberation and fact-checking which subsequently influences Wikipedia content, by driving traffic to articles or inspiring edits. By analyzing the relationship between information shared and discussed on these platforms, our dataset provides a foundation for examining the interplay between social media discourse and collaborative knowledge consumption and production.

Datasheet

Motivation

The motivations for this dataset stem from the challenges researchers face in studying the flow of information across the web. While the World Wide Web enables global communication and collaboration, data silos, linguistic barriers, and platform-specific restrictions hinder our ability to understand how information circulates, evolves, and impacts public discourse. Wikipedia and Reddit, as major hubs of knowledge sharing and discussion, offer an invaluable lens into these processes. However, without comprehensive data capturing their interactions, researchers are unable to fully examine how platforms co-construct knowledge. This dataset bridges this gap, providing the tools needed to study the interconnectedness of social media and collaborative knowledge systems.

Composition

WikiReddit, a comprehensive dataset capturing all Wikipedia mentions (including links) shared in posts and comments on Reddit from 2020 to 2023, excluding those from private and NSFW (not safe for work) subreddits. The SQL database comprises 336K total posts, 10.2M comments, 1.95M unique links, and 1.26M unique articles spanning 59 languages on Reddit and 276 Wikipedia language subdomains. Each linked Wikipedia article is enriched with its revision history and page view data within a ±10-day window of its posting, as well as article ID, redirects, and Wikidata identifiers. Supplementary anonymous metadata from Reddit posts and comments further contextualizes the links, offering a robust resource for analysing cross-platform information flows, collective attention dynamics, and the role of Wikipedia in online discourse.

Collection Process

Data was collected from the Reddit4Researchers and Wikipedia APIs. No personally identifiable information is published in the dataset. Data from Reddit to Wikipedia is linked via the hyperlink and article titles appearing in Reddit posts.

Preprocessing/cleaning/labeling

Extensive processing with tools such as regex was applied to the Reddit post/comment text to extract the Wikipedia URLs. Redirects for Wikipedia URLs and article titles were found through the API and mapped to the collected data. Reddit IDs are hashed with SHA-256 for post/comment/user/subreddit anonymity.

Uses

We foresee several applications of this dataset and preview four here. First, Reddit linking data can be used to understand how attention is driven from one platform to another. Second, Reddit linking data can shed light on how Wikipedia's archive of knowledge is used in the larger social web. Third, our dataset could provide insights into how external attention is topically distributed across Wikipedia. Our dataset can help extend that analysis into the disparities in what types of external communities Wikipedia is used in, and how it is used. Fourth, relatedly, a topic analysis of our dataset could reveal how Wikipedia usage on Reddit contributes to societal benefits and harms. Our dataset could help examine if homogeneity within the Reddit and Wikipedia audiences shapes topic patterns and assess whether these relationships mitigate or amplify problematic engagement online.

Distribution

The dataset is publicly shared with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The article describing this dataset should be cited: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.04942

Maintenance

Patrick Gildersleve will maintain this dataset, and add further years of content as and when available.

SQL Database Schema

Table: posts

Table: comments

Table: postlinks

Table: commentlinks

Reddit is a web traffic powerhouse: in March 2024 approximately 2.2 billion visits were measured to the online forum, making it one of the most-visited websites online. The front page of the internet Formerly known as “the front page of the internet”, Reddit is an online forum platform with over 130,000 sub-forums and communities. The platform allows registered users, called Redditors, to post content. Each post is open to the entire Reddit community to vote upon, either by down- or upvotes. The most popular posts are featured directly on the front page. Subreddits are available by category and Redditors can follow selected subreddits relevant to their interest and also control what content they see on their custom front page. Some of the most popular subreddits are r/AskReddit or r/AMA – the “Ask Me Anything” format. According to the company, Reddit hosted 1,800 AMAs in 2018, with a wide range of topics and hosts. One of the most popular Reddit AMA of 2022 by number of upvotes was by actor Nicolas Cagem with more than 238.5 thousand upvotes. Reddit usage The United States account for the biggest share of Reddit's desktop traffic, followed by the UK, and Canada. As of March 2023, Reddit ranked among the most popular social media websites in the United States.

The social forum and popular media platform Reddit reported over 330 million monthly active users (MAU) as of January 2019. By the beginning of January 2020, Reddit was reporting an increase in MAU of approximately 100 million users, up by over 30 percent compared to the previously reported figure in 2019. Funded in 2005, in recent years Reddit evolved from online forum to social media platform, reaching 50 million daily active users (DAU) as of January 2022.

Nearly half of all Reddit users in the United Kingdom (UK) said they logged on daily, according to a survey conducted in the third quarter of 2020. The majority however said they did so at least once a month, while ** percent used the platform weekly.

In the six months ending March 2024, the United States accounted for 48.46 percent of traffic to the online forum Reddit.com. The United Kingdom was ranked second, accounting for 7.16 percent of web visits to the social media platform. Reddit in the United States In August 2023, Reddit accounted for slightly over 1.6 percent of social media website traffic in the United States. Founded in 2005, Reddit is a discussion website which enables users to aggregate news by posting links and let other users vote and comment on them. There are thousands of subforums, called subreddits, on a wide range of topics available. One of the most popular subreddits is the AMA (“Ask Me Anything”), where celebrities, public figures or people in unique positions post threads that allow other Reddit users to ask them anything. In 2022, Nicolas Cage's AMA post generated over 238.5 thousand upvotes, making it the most popular AMA of the year. Reddit users in the United States Reddit use in the United States is more prevalent among younger online audiences. During a February 2021 survey, it was found that 36 percent of internet users aged 18 to 29 years and 22 percent of users aged 30 to 49 years used Reddit. However, the reach of the social platform strongly declines with age. Also, whilst around a 23 of male adults in the U.S. access Reddit, only 12 percent of women do the same.

As of the third quarter of 2020, it was found that 52 percent of Reddit users in the United States accessed the forum and discussion platform on a daily basis. Overall, 95 percent of responding Reddit users claimed that they used the platform monthly.

In January 2024, global users visiting Reddit.com spent approximately ***** seconds on the website of the popular discussion forum and social media. Between April and November 2022, the time spent on Reddit experienced an increase. Founded in 2005, Reddit hosts a large number of thematic forums or communities called Subreddits in which users can exchange their experiences, comment on posts, and even engage with video content.

As of 2020, ** percent of the Reddit users in Denmark used the platform on a daily basis, whereas nearly all users (** percent) used it monthly.

As of 2020, ** percent of Finns used Reddit on a daily basis. The weekly Reddit users in the country were ** percent of respondents, whereas ** percent used the platform monthly.

As of the third quarter of 2024, the majority of Reddit users were male, accounting for 59.8 percent of its audience base. Overall, women accounted for roughly 39.1 percent of the website users. Additionally, most of Reddit's desktop users were based in the United States.

As of 2020, ** percent of Reddit users in Sweden used the platform on a daily basis, whereas ** percent used it weekly.

As of 2020, ** percent of Norwegians used Reddit daily, whereas ** percent used the platform weekly. The share of monthly Reddit users was ** percent.

Nearly a quarter of all Reddit users in Germany said they logged on daily, according to a survey conducted in the third quarter of 2020. The majority however said they did so at least once a month, while ** percent used the platform weekly.