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.

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

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.

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

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.

As of the third quarter of 2020, over half of UK internet users aged 15 to 25 years were using multimedia messaging app Snapchat. By comparison, just 20 percent of those aged 26 to 35 years were using the social media app.

There are more male LinkedIn users than females – although it is pretty balanced.

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.

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

Steady growth is forecast for Snapchat over the next four years in the United Kingdom. Having claimed a total of 15.6 million users nationwide in 2019, the video-based social media app is expected to hit 17.1 million users by 2024 – amounting to a total growth of 1.5 million users during this period.

Driven by Gen Z

Nearly 60 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 20 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 70 percent of 55 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 44 percent of those surveyed in 2019 saying they followed brands on social media platforms for offers and discounts while a further 40 percent did so for product updates. When it came to the younger generation however, only 17 percent of those below 15 used Snapchat. Here, YouTube emerged as the top app of choice for 74 percent of those who responded.

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The vast majority of TikTok users are below 30 years old. Approximately 37 million Gen-Zers used TikTok in the US.

The most significant cohorts of users on Instagram are aged 18 – 24.

The number of snapchat users in Romania was forecast to increase between 2024 and 2028 by in total 0.1 million users (+4.95 percent). This overall increase does not happen continuously, notably not in 2027 and 2028. The snapchat user base is estimated to amount to 2.09 million users 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 Bulgaria and Croatia.

The number of snapchat users in Sweden was forecast to continuously decrease between 2024 and 2028 by in total 0.2 million users (-7.14 percent). After the seventh consecutive decreasing year, the snapchat user base is estimated to reach 2.63 million users and therefore a new minimum in 2028. 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 Denmark and Finland.

56.5% of Facebook users worldwide are male. This is in direct contrast to only 43.5% of Facebook being female.

The number of snapchat users in Colombia was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2028 by in total 0.8 million users (+10.67 percent). After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the snapchat user base is estimated to reach 8.28 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).

As of March 2021, users in their 20s accounted for ** percent of Snapchat's active user accounts in the United States. According to App Ape, users aged 10 to 19 years were the second-largest user group, accounting for ** percent of the photo sharing app's user base on the Android platform.

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.

These are the key social media statistics that you need to know.