With roughly three billion monthly active users as of the second quarter of 2023, Facebook is the most used online social network worldwide. The platform surpassed two billion active users in the second quarter of 2017, taking just over 13 years to reach this milestone. In comparison, Meta-owned Instagram took 11.2 years, and Google’s YouTube took just over 14 years to achieve this landmark. As of January 2022, Facebook’s leading audience base was in India, with almost 330 million users whilst the United States ranked second with an approximate total of 179 million users. The platform also finds remarkable popularity in Indonesia and Brazil. Social Media usage in the United States In January 2021, Facebook was the platform on which users in the United States spent the most time per day. The average time spent on Facebook was 33 minutes, followed by TikTok with 32 minutes and Twitter with 31 daily minutes. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, all major social media platforms saw an increase in daily usage, which then either plateaued or decreased in 2021. At the end of 2021, over a quarter of all Facebook users in the United States belonged to the 25 to 34 year age group and 18.2 percent of users were in the 35 to 44 year age group. In general, Facebook users were more likely to be female. Meta Platforms Meta is Facebook’s recently renamed parent company and had a grand total of 3.59 billion core product users by the final quarter of 2021. Other Meta products include Instagram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Oculus – Meta’s virtual reality subsidiary which produces VR headsets. In 2021, Meta's revenue amounted to 117 billion US dollars, up from around 86 billion U.S. dollars in the previous financial year.

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.

As of the fourth quarter of 2023, Facebook had a combined 272 million monthly active users (MAU) in the United States and Canada, up by one million users when compared to the previous quarter.

Facebook user data – additional information

Facebook’s data use policy or privacy policy as it is also known, highlights the company’s guidelines concerning user privacy, information and how they are likely to be used. It also highlights the difference between public and private data and the websites and third part apps which are integrated into its services.

Federal agencies and governments have the right to request user data from Facebook. This issue was highlighted in late 2014, when Facebook came under attack from the British press for not releasing relevant information on the men responsible for the supposed pre planned murder on the British soldier Lee Rigby. In the second half of 2020, the number of user data requests issued to Facebook from the United States amounted to 61,262. This figure was higher than any other country, and India ranked second with 40,300 data requests.

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.

The average Facebook user spends about 19.6 per month on Facebook every month. This works out to be about 39 minutes per day.

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According to a global survey conducted in February 2024, almost 40 percent of Facebook users paid attention to news from mainstram news outlets and mainstream journalists on the social network. Additionally, 39 percent reported paying attention to personalities, such as celebrities and influencers. Around one in four Facebook users paid attention to politicians and politican activists on the network.

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

There were 279 206 100 Facebook users in United States of America in February 2024, which accounted for 81% of its entire population. The majority of them were women - 53.9%. People aged 25 to 34 were the largest user group (68 000 000). The highest difference between men and women occurs within people aged 65 and above, where women lead by 13 100 000.

In the fourth quarter of 2023, Meta's Facebook had 408 million monthly active users (MAUs) in Europe. During the same quarter of 2022, the platform amassed around 407 million MAUs in Europe.

Monthly active users worldwide

In the fourth quarter of 2008 Facebook provided a service for just 100 million active users. Thirteen years on, as of the second quarter of 2021 that number had risen to an astounding 2.89 billion MAUs. The number of MAUs has never taken a backward step during the examined period.

 Growth outside of Europe and North America 

Facebook continues to focus on regions outside of Europe and North America, and the reward of this effort can be seen in areas such as the Asia Pacific region, where the company has seen significant gains in terms of growing the active user base. Facebook reached over 788 million daily active users (DAU) in the second quarter of 2021.

This statistical dataset contains estimates on the number of active online Facebook users living outside of their country of origin within the European Union. The dataset includes information on Facebook users' age, gender, country of residence, and country of previous residence. The data is divided in the number of Monthly Active Users and Daily Active Users. The data was collected through standard CSV format via an advertising API platform by using an R Studio code, and the data collection was conducted twice a month from January to November 2021. The dataset was originally published in DiVA and moved to SND in 2024.

There were 21 904 700 Facebook users in Australia in April 2023, which accounted for 79.9% of its entire population. The majority of them were women - 53.2%. People aged 25 to 34 were the largest user group (5 300 000). The highest difference between men and women occurs within people aged 65 and above, where women lead by 897 600.

There were 60 422 300 Facebook users in Pakistan in May 2024, which accounted for 25.9% of its entire population. The majority of them were men - 76.5%. People aged 18 to 24 were the largest user group (24 500 000). The highest difference between men and women occurs within people aged 25 to 34, where men lead by 16 900 000.

According to the forecast presented, the number of monthly active Facebook users is projected to reach almost 26 million individuals in Poland in 2029. Facebook connects the Poles The term “active users” refers to the number of individuals who continue to visit a virtual place and interact with its functions within a chosen timeframe (e.g., on a monthly or weekly basis). This can be calculated by observing the logging-in rates or analyzing users’ engagement with the platform’s contents. At the moment, Facebook is one of the most popular and engaging social networking platforms for Polish internet users, with over 68 percent of Poles visiting the domain in 2024. Demographics of Polish Facebook users The leading age group for the platform’s use was 25 to 34 years, with women accounting for almost 13 percent of the platform users in this age group. Facebook is projected to reach 71 percent of the total Polish population in 2027.

There were 516 900 000 Facebook users in India in February 2023, which accounted for 35.2% of its entire population. The majority of them were men - 68.4%. People aged 25 to 34 were the largest user group (173 000 000). The highest difference between men and women occurs within people aged 25 to 34, where men lead by 121 900 000.

The number of Facebook users in Bulgaria was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2028 by in total 0.4 million users (+11.56 percent). After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the Facebook user base is estimated to reach 3.87 million users and therefore a new peak in 2028. Notably, the number of Facebook users of was continuously increasing over the past years.User figures, shown here regarding the platform facebook, 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).

In the fourth quarter of 2023, there were approximately 1.37 billion monthly active Facebook users across the Asia-Pacific region. Comparatively, in the first quarter of 2015, there were 471 million monthly active Facebook users across the Asia-Pacific region. Facebook’s global domination In more than two decades of existence, Facebook has expanded alongside the evolution of social media and has come to dominate the industry for most of its lifetime. With a leading worldwide social media return on investment and monthly global active users surpassing three billion, Facebook achieved an average revenue of 13 U.S. dollars per user by the end of 2023. The rapid growth of Facebook was fueled in part by the expansion of internet access and smartphone usage globally. Developed markets with high internet penetration rates, such as North America or Western Europe, have seen high Facebook usage. Meanwhile, the Asia-Pacific region, with its growing population and increasing internet use, may offer opportunities for sustained growth. Facebook in the Asia-Pacific region While the Asia-Pacific region's importance for Facebook is relatively small in terms of marginal financial weight, the region's significance in terms of user base and growth potential is considerable. For instance, India led the list of countries with the most Facebook users, with an audience size of more than 378 million in 2024. In addition, Facebook held the largest market share of social media platforms in Asia in terms of traffic generating capability, accounting for more than half of the market as of January 2025.

In 2023, there were 51.2 million users of social media platform Facebook in the United Kingdom. In 2028, the number of monthly active Facebook users is projected to reach 49 million individuals. In January 2020, Facebook reached a market share of 37.27 percent. In 2018, the services offered through Facebook reached all age groups in the country but slightly more female users than male users. Facebook gets used more than once a day by around 45 percent of the UK online population. Only 21 percent of UK adults that go online don't use Facebook at all.

In 2022, Facebook had approximately 21.1 million users in Spain, with this number consistently fluctuating above 20 million since 2014. Considering that Spain’s population stood at approximately 47.6 million inhabitants in 2022, the popularity of Facebook in Spain cannot be denied, as this figure translates into a penetration of almost 44.3 percent of the country.

Social media landscape in Spain

Despite a slight decline since 2021, Facebook still is the second most used platform in the country and the biggest when not considering messaging apps. Around 63 percent half of Spanish Facebook users checked the social platform at least once or several times a day. As of 2022, around 85 percent of the Spanish population used social media, with the primary reason of keeping in touch with closer contacts via messenger apps, the preferred type of platform for around 83 percent of the country’s social users.

Spain and Facebook: a global comparison

With an audience of more than 314 million users in India in 2023, Spain might feel like a smaller fish for Facebook, as the country registers an audience almost 15 times smaller. The number of monthly active users on Facebook has grown non-stop in the past decade, almost reaching 2.99 billion users worldwide in the first quarter of 2023 compared to only one hundred million in 2018. These figures make Mark Zuckerberg’s social network the platform that covers the largest audience in the world.

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.