This statistic represents the growth rate of Facebook users in India from 2016 to 2021. The projected growth rate of Facebook users in India in 2021 was forecasted to be around *** percent, down from around **** percent in 2020.

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As of early 2023, 52.5 percent of Facebook users in France were women. The popular social media platform has always been slightly more popular with female users than male users.

Introduction

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Facebook is one of the world's most popular social media platforms. As of the beginning of 2024 in France, there were 29.95 million users of the social network. Since 2018, Facebook has seen its French audience decline by around 21 percent.

This statistic illustrates the share of Facebook users amongst all social network users across India from 2016 to 2021. The projected share of Facebook users in total social network users across the country in 2021 was forecasted to be around **** percent, up from about ** percent in 2020.

The statistic shows information on the level of trust in Facebook news in the United States as of December 2016. During a survey, 61 percent of respondents stated they trusted news that their friends and family shared on Facebook only "a little".

In the third quarter of 2020, Facebook stated that 10 million active advertisers were using the social networking platform to promote their products and services, up from seven million advertisers in the first quarter of the previous year. Facebook advertising revenue Facebook generates the vast majority of its revenues through advertising. In 2020, the social network’s ad revenue amounted to over 84.2 billion U.S. dollars, compared to 1.7 billion U.S. dollars in other revenues.

Most of Facebook’s ad sales are generated via mobile, to the tune of 50.6 billion U.S. dollars in 2018. The company stated that mobile accounted for 92 percent of its total advertising revenue. This is hardly surprising when looking at the dominance of Facebook’s mobile presence which includes the namesake platform app but also Facebook Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and various other Facebook properties and products.

As of the second quarter of 2021, Facebook’s advertising revenue in the United States and Canada amounted to roughly 13.3 billion U.S. dollars. Other revenues came to 372 million U.S. dollars. During the same period, global Facebook ad revenues amounted to 28.5 billion U.S. dollars.

This statistic shows the estimated weekly number of Spotify, YouTube and Facebook users in Finland from 2016 to 2017. The weekly user estimates for both Facebook and YouTube reached three million per platform. Moreover, Spotify's user base increased during the survey period. As of 2017, it was estimated that the Swedish-origin music streaming platform had 1.5 million weekly users in Finland.

Users aged ******** years old made up the largest audience of Facebook in the United Kingdom in January 2025, accounting for **** percent of all users. Overall, Facebook users aged ******** were the platform's second-largest demographic in the UK, followed by those aged 18 to 24. Dip in overall user numbers As of November 2024, there were over 55.9 million Facebook users in the UK, up from ***** million in September 2018, according to napoleoncat.com. However, since a peak of **** million users in May 2022, Facebook's audience has decreased slightly. Facebook’s user number issues have not just been limited to the United Kingdom, with figures released by the company highlighting issues in several key markets. There was a small growth in Europe from the first quarter of 2019 to the first quarter of 2020. The company counted *** million daily active users (DAU) in Europe during the first quarter of 2020. Facebook United Kingdom key source of European revenue Facebook UK Limited generated approximately *** million British pounds in revenue during 2015, a figure that skyrocketed  to *** million British pounds in 2016. According to Facebook UK, this was the results of the company commencing advertiser reseller services in April 2016. In 2019, Facebook UK Limited revenue reached roughly *********** British pounds. In the third quarter of 2024, the company’s total European revenue reached over **** billion U.S. dollars 

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.

OverviewThe BuzzFeed dataset, officially known as the BuzzFeed-Webis Fake News Corpus 2016, comprises content from 9 news publishers over a 7-day period close to the 2016 US election. It was created to analyze the spread of misinformation and hyperpartisan content on social media platforms, particularly Facebook.Dataset CompositionNews Articles: The dataset includes 1,627 articles from various sources:826 from mainstream publishers256 from left-wing publishers545 from right-wing publishersFacebook Posts: Each article is associated with Facebook post data, including metrics like share counts, reaction counts, and comment counts.Comments: The dataset includes nearly 1.7 million Facebook comments discussing the news content.Fact-Check Ratings: Each article was fact-checked by professional journalists at BuzzFeed, providing veracity assessments.Key FeaturesPublisher Information: The dataset covers 9 publishers, including 6 hyperpartisan (3 left-wing and 3 right-wing) and 3 mainstream outlets.Temporal Aspect: The data was collected over seven weekdays (September 19-23 and September 26-27, 2016).Verification Status: All publishers included in the dataset had earned Facebook's blue checkmark, indicating authenticity and elevated status.Metadata: Includes various metrics such as publication dates, post types, and engagement statistics.Potential ApplicationsThe BuzzFeed dataset is valuable for various research and analytical purposes:News Veracity Assessment: Researchers can use machine learning techniques to classify articles based on their factual accuracy.Social Media Analysis: The dataset allows for studying how news spreads on platforms like Facebook, including engagement patterns.Hyperpartisan Content Study: It enables analysis of differences between mainstream and hyperpartisan news sources.Content Strategy Optimization: Media companies can use insights from the dataset to refine their content strategies.Audience Analysis: The data can be used for demographic analysis and audience segmentation.This dataset provides a comprehensive snapshot of news dissemination and engagement on social media during a crucial period, making it a valuable resource for researchers, data scientists, and media analysts studying online information ecosystems.

We use 19 billion likes on the posts of top 2000 U.S. fan pages on Facebook from 2015 to 2016 to measure the dynamic ideological positions for politicians, news outlets, and users at the national and state levels. We then use these measures to derive support rates for 2016 presidential candidates in all 50 states, to predict the election, and to compare them with state-level polls and actual vote shares. We find that: (1) Assuming that users vote for candidates closer to their own ideological positions, support rates calculated using Facebook predict that Trump will win the electoral college vote while Clinton will win the popular vote. (2) State-level Facebook support rates track state-level polling averages and pass the cointegration test, showing two time series share similar trends. (3) Compared with actual vote shares, polls generally have smaller margin of errors, but polls also often overestimate Clinton’s support in right-leaning states. Overall, we provide a method to forecast elections at low cost, in real time, and based on passively revealed preference and little researcher discretion.

This dataset provides daily updated user reviews and ratings for the Facebook Android application, as collected from the Google Play Store. It offers valuable insights into user sentiment, app performance across different versions, and general feedback from the user base. The data can be utilised for analysis of user engagement, identification of common issues, and understanding public perception of the Facebook app.

Columns

• reviewId: A unique identifier assigned to each individual review.
• userName: The identifier for the user who provided the rating and review.
• content: The textual description or comment left by the user as part of their review.
• score: The numerical rating given by the user for the app. Ratings typically range from 1 to 5.
• thumbsUpCount: The number of 'likes' or upvotes a particular review has received.
• reviewCreatedVersion: The specific version of the app that was in use when the review and rating were submitted.
• at: The date and time when the rating and review were created.
• appVersion: The version of the app.

Distribution

The data files are typically provided in CSV format. A separate sample file will be made available on the platform. The dataset includes a significant number of unique review IDs (over 345,000) and unique user names (nearly 300,000). Ratings show a strong positive bias, with over 223,000 entries receiving scores between 4.92 and 5.00. The majority of reviews have a low number of 'thumbs up' (over 354,000 entries are in the 0-2214 range), though some reviews have gathered a very high number of likes, up to 110,743. The 'appVersion' column has approximately 18% null values, with version 476.0.0.49.74 accounting for 4% and other versions making up the remaining 78%. The time range for the reviews spans from 24th June 2016 to 3rd July 2025, with a notable increase in review volume observed particularly from late 2023 through to mid-2024. The exact total number of records is not specified, but the column distributions indicate a substantial dataset.

Usage

This dataset is ideal for a variety of applications, including: * Performing sentiment analysis on user reviews to gauge public opinion and identify trends. * Monitoring app performance and user satisfaction over time and across different app versions. * Conducting natural language processing (NLP) research on user-generated content. * Informing product development and prioritisation based on direct user feedback. * Benchmarking against competitor apps within the mobile application market.

Coverage

The dataset's geographic scope is global, reflecting reviews from the Google Play Store. The time range of the data extends from 24th June 2016 to 3rd July 2025, with new reviews being updated on a daily basis. Information regarding the demographic scope of the users is not provided within the dataset.

License

CC BY-NC-SA

Who Can Use It

• App Developers: To gain immediate insights into user issues, bugs, and feature requests.
• Data Scientists & Machine Learning Engineers: For training and validating NLP models, particularly for sentiment analysis or topic modelling on app reviews.
• Product Managers: To understand user satisfaction, identify areas for improvement, and track the impact of new features or updates.
• Market Researchers: To analyse market trends, competitive positioning, and consumer perceptions within the mobile app sector.
• Academics: For research on user behaviour, mobile app ecosystems, and online review dynamics.

Dataset Name Suggestions

• Facebook Android App User Reviews
• Google Play Store: Facebook App Ratings
• Daily Facebook Mobile App Feedback
• Facebook App Review Data
• User Sentiment: Facebook Android

Attributes

Original Data Source: Facebook Reviews [DAILY UPDATE]

In the United Kingdom in January 2025, women aged 25 to 34 years made up Facebook's largest audience in the country, accounting for almost ** percent of all users. Men in the same age bracket were the second-largest audience base, accounting for ** percent of users. Around ** percent of Facebook users in the UK were aged 65 and older. Facebook UK  Facebook UK Limited generated approximately *** million British pounds in revenue during 2015, a figure that skyrocketed to **** billion British pounds in 2017. According to Facebook UK, this was the result of the company commencing advertiser reseller services in April 2016. For the year 2019, the company declared a revenue of roughly *** billion British pounds within the UK. In the first quarter of 2021, the company generated a total European revenue of *** billion U.S. Dollars.     Growth in European active users As well as rising revenues, Facebook has also seen a slow increase in the number of monthly active users (MAUs) across Europe. During the first quarter of 2015, Facebook attracted *** million MAUs, a figure that would rise to *** million by the first quarter of 2021. Globally, Facebook had roughly **** billion MAUs by the first quarter of 2021.

A recurrent criticism concerning the use of online social media data in political science research is the lack of demographic information about social media users. By employing a face-recognition algorithm to the profile pictures of Facebook users, the paper derives two fundamental demographic characteristics (age and gender) of a sample of Facebook users who interacted with the most relevant British parties in the two weeks before the Brexit referendum of 23 June 2016. The article achieves the goals of (i) testing the precision of the algorithm, (ii) testing its validity, (iii) inferring new evidence on digital mobilisation, and (iv) tracing the path for future developments and application of the algorithm. The findings show that the algorithm is reliable and that it can be fruitfully used in political and social sciences both to confirm the validity of survey data and to obtain information from populations that are generally unavailable within traditional surveys.

In 2022, France was the only country to have the same share of use of Facebook as a means for accessing news, from the selected countries, with ** percent of Austrians using Facebook for news content. However, the share of news consumers who used Facebook to access news in Italy amounted to ** percent in 2022.

This statistic shows the results of a survey conducted by Cint on the distribution of social media used in France in 2016 and 2018. In 2017, ***** percent of respondents stated that they use Facebook.

Although the proportion of respondents saying they used Facebook decreased, the overall number of Facebook users in France is expected to reach ***** million people by 2022, an increase of **** million users from 2015.

The penetration rate of social media services in France was highest among 18-24 year olds. ** percent of respondents in this age group reported using social media services, dropping to ** percent of respondents among those aged 25-39 years. Among the general French population, ** percent of respondents reported using social media in any form during 2016, up from just ** percent in 2010.

Globally, Facebook is by far the most popular social networking platform, with ***** billion active users. WhatsApp - also owned by Facebook - is second with *** billion active users, ahead of YouTube's *** billion active users.

The share of internet users who used Facebook in Sweden gradually increased significantly over the period from 2011 to 2020. Starting at 63 percent of the interviewed Swedes in 2011, the percentage grew to 81 percent, as of the third quarter of 2020.The most common purpose of using the social network platform, reported in 2019, was to keep contact with friends and family. Other popular reasons among Swedes were for entertainment and for news.

 Of what ages are the Swedish Facebook daily users?       The highest share of Facebook users in Sweden from 2018 onwards was within the age group of 26 to 35 years. Respondents aged between 16 and 25 years were slightly fewer that year, while in 2017, they composed the highest share of Facebook daily users in the country. A 2019 study concluded that the video posts generated highest engagement Facebook rate in Sweden, while link posts were the type of posts with lowest engagement rate that year.

 Social networking       More and more Swedes used social networks were used over the period between 2011 and 2018, with a slight decline in 2019.'. While under 55 percent of the interviewed individuals engaged with social media, the percentage reached over 70 percent in the years since 2016.

There are currently over 1.5 billion active users on TikTok worldwide.