As of January 2025, Facebook Messenger had around *** million users in the United States. The instant messaging service found its largest audience among those aged **************, accounting for ** percent of users. Additionally, the ** to ** year age group made up ** percent of Messenger's audience.

As of February 2025, Facebook Messenger saw in men aged between 25 and 34 years their main demographic. More than 19 percent of men in this age group reported using the Meta-branded communication platform. Approximately 13 percent of women in the same age group reported using Messenger in the same examined period.

In January 2023, around ** percent of mobile internet users who had Facebook Messenger installed and were surveyed in Brazil said they rarely use the app. Meanwhile, ** percent of respondents stated that they had used Meta's solution every day. Still, in the same year, Brazil remained the largest user base of the messaging solution in Latin America.

As of February 2025, approximately 55.6 percent of all Facebook Messenger users worldwide were men. In comparison, around 44.4 percent of those using the Meta-branded messaging platform were women.

As of December 2022, around ** percent of surveyed mobile messenger users in South Korea aged between 15 and 19 years old stated to use the Facebook messenger mobile app. People in their thirties were the least likely to use the Facebook messenger, with only *** percent stating to use it.

According to a survey during the third quarter of 2024, Facebook Messenger was among the most used social networks in Latin America. Mexico tops the list regarding the Messenger usage reach, with more than ** percent of its online population using the instant messaging app and ranking as the fifth most used platform in the country. It was followed by Colombia, with **** percent. Meanwhile, ** percent of internet users in Argentina claimed the same.

This statistic presents the result of a survey about the share of mobile messenger users who use Facebook messenger mobile app in South Korea in 2019, devided by gender. In the examined period, around **** percent of surveyed male mobile messenger users stated to use the Facebook messenger app.

Overall, Facebook's messaging service has seen the number of users in Colombia fluctuate in recent months. As of January 2025, more than 37.2 million people in the South American country used Facebook Messenger, up from the 36.98 million users observed in January 2024.

In October 2024, there were around 3.63 million Facebook Messenger usage in Costa Rica. Additionally, the peak of the platform's usage in the country was recorded in August 2023, when approximately 3.69 million people in the Central America country used Facebook's messaging tool.

40 percent of Facebook Messenger users in Denmark used the application several times a day in 2018. Facebook Messenger was the most commonly used instant messaging app in Denmark, Sweden and Norway that year, with 43 percent of the Danish citizens using it on a daily basis.

In October 2024, there were around **** million Facebook Messenger usage in Bolivia. Additionally, the peak of the platform's usage in the country was recorded in August 2023, when approximately **** million people in the South American country used Facebook's messaging tool, which represented around **** percent of its population.

As of January 2024, Facebook profiles were distributed nearly evenly among men and women in Nordic countries. However, more than 58 percent of Finnish women used the social network, whereas the corresponding figure for men was approximately 42 percent.

The displayed data on the frequency of using Facebook messenger shows results of an exclusive Statista survey conducted in the United States in 2018. Some ** percent of respondents answered the question ''How often do you use Facebook Messenger?'' with ''Daily''.The Survey Data Table for the Statista survey Tech Giants and Digital Services in the United States 2019 contains the complete tables for the survey including various column headings.

According to the 2022 survey, ** percent of Finns estimated that their Facebook usage decreased over the past year. ** percent of Facebook users in Finland said that they used the social media platform significantly less in the past 12 months, while eight percent used Facebook more. Meanwhile, over half of the respondents said that they use Facebook as much as before.

There were **** million Facebook Messenger users in the United Kingdom in January 2025, up from **** million in November 2023. Facebook Messenger user numbers peaked in the UK in May 2024, with a record audience of users in the country, and have remained stable ever since. Messenger users increased considerably between March 2020 and May 2020 and have since been relatively constant.

As of February 2025, two billion users were accessing the WhatsApp messenger on a monthly basis. The app’s reach in usage penetration is particularly strong in markets outside the United States, and it is one of the most popular mobile social apps worldwide. WeChat amassed over 1.38 billion users, and Facebook Messenger amassed around 947 million users worldwide. Instant messaging is a type of online chat which offers real-time text transmission via internet. Since the appearance of the smartphone and the subsequent explosion of mobile apps, low-cost or free chat and social messaging apps have proven themselves as a cheap alternative to operator-based text messaging via SMS. Many messenger apps offer features such as group chats, the exchange of graphics, video and even audio messages as well as stickers or emoticons.

In January 2025, more than ***** million people in Peru used Facebook's messaging app and platform, a number that makes up nearly ** percent of the country's population. Furthermore, as of that month, ** percent of Facebook users in Peru were 25 to 34 years old.

According to a survey conducted among internet users in the United States in 2024, Facebook Messenger was the most popular messaging service, with 55 percent of respondents using it. Additionally, 39 percent of U.S. adults reported using Instagram. Only two percent of U.S. adults were using the messenger apps Viber and Whisper.

As of May 2022, respondents aged between 25 and 34 years reduced their Facebook use more than other age groups in Finland. While ** percent of the 25- to 34-year-olds reported that they used Facebook Messenger less, the corresponding figure was ** percent and below among all other age groups. At the same time, ** percent of the 55- to 64-year-olds increased their Facebook Messenger usage over the past year.

As of December 2024, there were some **** million Facebook Messenger users in Egypt. Overall, users aged between 25 to 34 years made up the largest user group, accounting for **** percent of Messenger's audience in the country. Usage of Messenger declined steadily with age, and *** percent of all users were aged 65 years and older.