The top ten Facebook posts by brands generated 38.9 million actions on owned content. Blossom accounted for two of the top ten spots with plant- or food-related video content, while the American Music Awards was ranked first with 12.6 million actions.

In 2023, the average number of weekly brand posts on Facebook was 4.69 across all examined verticals. The leading media brands produced an average of 64.6 posts on their social network every week. In contrast, food and beverage brands generated an average of 2.2 posts weekly. Additionally, whilst Influencers posted fewer than the average number of posts per week, they generated the highest level of engagement of all monitored industries, along with Higher Ed industries.

The number of Facebook users in the United States was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2028 by in total 12.6 million users (+5.04 percent). After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the Facebook user base is estimated to reach 262.8 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).

As of January 2025, users aged 25 to 34 years made up Facebook's largest audience in the United States, accounting for 24.2 percent of the social network's user base, with 12.3 percent of those users being women. Overall, 9.7 percent of users aged 35 to 44 years were women, and 9.3 percent were men. How many people use Facebook in the United States? Facebook is by far the most used social network in the world and finds a huge share of its audience in the United States. Facebook’s U.S. audience size comes second only to India. In 2023, there were over 246 million Facebook users in the U.S. By 2028, it is estimated that around 263 million people in the U.S. will be signed up for the platform. How do users in the United States view the platform? Although Facebook is widely used and very popular with U.S. consumers, there are issues of trust with its North American audience. As of November 2021, 72 percent of respondents reported that they did not trust Facebook with their personal data. Despite having privacy doubts, a May 2022 survey found that 20 percent of adults had a very favorable opinion of Facebook, and one-third held a somewhat positive view of the platform.

As of April 2024, it was found that men between the ages of 25 and 34 years made up Facebook largest audience, accounting for 18.4 percent of global users. Additionally, Facebook's second largest audience base could be found with men aged 18 to 24 years. Facebook connects the world Founded in 2004 and going public in 2012, Facebook is one of the biggest internet companies in the world with influence that goes beyond social media. It is widely considered as one of the Big Four tech companies, along with Google, Apple, and Amazon (all together known under the acronym GAFA). Facebook is the most popular social network worldwide and the company also owns three other billion-user properties: mobile messaging apps WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, as well as photo-sharing app Instagram. Facebook usersThe vast majority of Facebook users connect to the social network via mobile devices. This is unsurprising, as Facebook has many users in mobile-first online markets. Currently, India ranks first in terms of Facebook audience size with 378 million users. The United States, Brazil, and Indonesia also all have more than 100 million Facebook users each.

As of November 2023, the average Facebook page fan engagement with posts on a page was 0.06 percent. Image posts drew the highest level of engagement from page fans, having an interaction rate of 0.1 percent. Furthermore, link posts saw the lowest engagement rate with 0.03 percent.

As of November 2024, about 0.1 percent of Facebook page followers in Hong Kong were engaged in responding activities, namely reactions, comments, and shares to page posts. Among all content formats, status and photo posts enjoyed the highest engagement rate.

Which county has the most Facebook users? There are more than 378 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 193.8 million, 119.05 million, and 112.55 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 January 2020, Facebook video posts had the highest engagement rate in Vietnam, with an average engagement rate of around 9.86 percent. In that period, Facebook was the most used social media platform in Vietnam.

As of 2023, video posts on Facebook pages accrued the highest engagement rate in India, indicated by the page engagement-to-total fans ratio of 0.12 percent. Link and status posts garnered the lowest rates of engagement that year. However, a declining trend had developed in the country since the previous year with engagement on the Meta-owned platform reducing across content types.

Instagram and user-generated content in India

While Facebook and Instagram together control most of India’s social media market, it is the latter that has truly refined the content creation experience for Indian users. User-generated content is no longer limited to simply posting pictures and comments and presents a unique opportunity for marketing as well. Given its high engagement rate and wildly popular short video feature Reels, Instagram is the preferred platform for influencer marketing and brand collaboration.

Meta platforms

Since being rebranded, Meta Platforms Inc. has gained wider control over the Indian market. The largest user bases of the company’s trinity of platforms- Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram- are housed in the South Asian country. Tech-savvy Indian users are increasingly on the lookout for new trends and were quick to hop on to Meta’s new microblogging platform, Threads.

In 2024, brands inceased their posting frequency on Facebook when compared to 2023. Overall, in 2024, accounts with huge followings, over 50,001 followers, posted an average of 23.72 times per week. Big accounts, those with 10,001 to 50,000 followers, published an average of 6.92 posts per week, up from 6.81 posts in 2023.

According to a 2024 study of Reels hosted on Meta platforms Facebook and Instagram, the highest average video views on either platform were in the late hours of the day, especially at midnight. Instagram Reels that were published at midnight generated approximately 25,000 views on average, while Facebook Reels published at the same time received approximately half of the views, or 12,300 on average during the first quarter of 2024. However, the most popular posting time for content creators was six in the afternoon, with 119,000 Reels published on Instagram and 60,000 Reels published on Facebook at that time, respectively.

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.

During the fourth quarter of 2023, the number of daily active users on Facebook reached 2.1 billion, a minor increase on the previous quarter. When compared with the number of daily active users in the final quarter of 2022, the platform has gained around 100 million users. Facebook’s penetration rate for the United States in 2023 was 72.13 percent, up from 71.43 percent in 2022. The social network’s audience reach is projected to stand at 75.79 percent by 2027.

Most popular social media websites

As of May 2021, Facebook was the most used social media site in the United States, accounting for 71.8 percent of all social media visits. Ranking in second place was Pinterest with 12.4 percent, followed by Twitter and Instagram, with 9.15 percent and 3.82 percent, respectively. Although other sites remain popular, Facebook’s number of visits made it undoubtably the leading social media platform in terms of social media site visits.

For Generation Z and Millennials in the United States, Facebook was one of the least popular platforms used to connect with others. Gen Z and Millennials preferred video sharing platforms, specifically Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube.

Meta’s revenue

Facebook Inc was renamed as Meta in 2021, in a strategic step toward the metaverse. Meta Platforms is now the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp amongst others, together being known as Meta’s Family of Apps.

Meta’s annual revenue for 2021 was 117.92 billion U.S. dollars, up from 85.97 billion in 2020. Within a decade, the company has increased its annual revenue by approximately 114 billion U.S. dollars. In the most recent fiscal year, Meta’s Family of Apps were responsible for over 115 billion U.S. dollars’ worth of Meta’s revenue.

In 2023, the average engagement rate of posts by sports teams on Facebook was 0.3 percent, the highest engagement rate of all selected industries. Additionally, this figure is significantly higher than the overall average of 0.06 percent. Overall, Influencers achieved a Facebook post engagement rate of 0.16 percent. Verticals such as Tech and Software and Food and Beverage both encountered engagement rates of 0.03 percent.

The global number of Facebook users was forecast to continuously increase between 2023 and 2027 by in total 391 million users (+14.36 percent). After the fourth consecutive increasing year, the Facebook user base is estimated to reach 3.1 billion users and therefore a new peak in 2027. Notably, the number of Facebook users 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).

As of January 2025, 24.2 percent of Facebook users in the United States were aged between 25 and 34 years, making up Facebook’s largest audience in the country. Overall, 19 percent of users belonged to the 18 to 24-year age group. Does everyone in the U.S. use Facebook? In 2023, there were approximately 247 million Facebook users in the U.S., a figure which is projected to steadily increase, and reach 262.8 million by 2028. Social media users in the United States have a very high awareness of the social media giant. Expectedly, 94 percent of users had heard of the brand in 2023. Although the vast majority of U.S. social networkers knew of Facebook, the likeability of the platform was not so impressive at 68 percent. Nonetheless, usage, loyalty, and buzz around the brand remained relatively high. Facebook, Meta, and the metaverse A strategic rebranding from Facebook to Meta Platforms in late 2021 boded well for the company in Mark Zuckerberg’s attempt to be strongly linked to the metaverse, and to be considered more than just a social media company. According to a survey conducted in the U.S. in early 2022, Meta Platforms is the brand that Americans most associated with the metaverse.  

Status posts had the highest engagement rates among Facebook users in Japan from September to November 2024, reaching an average engagement rate of 0.15 percent in relation to the number of page fans. All types of posts combined had an engagement rate of 0.1 percent.

As of April 2020, Facebook brand accounts with between 5,000 and 10,000 followers had an average engagement rate of 1.12 percent on live videos, and a 0.59 percent engagement rate on pre-recorded videos. In comparison, Facebook brand accounts with over 100,000 followers had a 0.24 percent engagement rate on live videos and a 0.25 percent engagement rate on pre-recorded videos.

As of November 2024, about 0.04 percent of Facebook page followers in Taiwan were engaged in responding activities, namely reactions, comments, and shares to page posts. Among all content formats, photo posts enjoyed the highest engagement rate.