An October 2020 survey asked children in Ireland which apps or websites they used the most. Overall, YouTube was the most used online service with 51 percent of respondents stating that they used the platform, followed by Snapchat and Instagram with 43 and 26 percent, respectively. In addition, eight percent of children said that they were currently using Google.

In March 2024, Okta was the most visited website when it came to KYC/KYB services. The San Francisco-based identity and access management company had over *** million website visits during this time period. Second in the list was Stripe, with headquarters in both Silicon Valley and Dublin, Ireland.

The European questionnaire on Information and Communication Technologies Data reveals that there exists a disparity between the internet usage of people of different age groups. This disparity although present in most countries, differs widely in its severity.

In 2019, 69 percent of internet users in Ireland between 16 and 24 responded that they used the internet to access online new sites, newspapers, or news magazines. 81 percent of the 25- to 34-year-olds used the internet in 2020 to inform themselves about news. Users among the 35- to 44-year-olds is similarly high, while users aged between 45 and 54 years were less likely to inform themselves on the internet. Less likely were people aged between 55 and 64 years old, with only 58 percent responding that they used the internet as a source for news information. This however this number has increased by 34 percent since 2014.

Google Pay was used more often for in-store payments in both India and Poland than in either the United States or the UK in 2024. This reveals itself when comparing two questions from Statista's Consumer Insights as ** out of 100 consumers from India replied they had used Google Pay. India ranks within the top three of countries in the world with the highest penetration of proximity mobile payments.

How many people use Google Pay?

Google's mother company Alphabet does not share user figures of Google Pay. This is because the company does not charge transaction fees, except in the United States when clients transfer money from a Google Pay account to a bank account with a debit card. A 2022 forecast predicted the number of Google Pay users in the United States would grow by more than *** million between 2022 and 2026. This prediction was from before May 2022, however. That month, Google announced it would replace Google Pay altogether with a resurrected Google Wallet app in ** countries across the world, except the U.S., Singapore, and India.

Google Pay used more often on websites outside the United States Website tracking focusing on payment technologies indicates Google Pay is used more often on websites from Canada, New Zealand or Ireland than on U.S. websites or platforms from Europe. Nearly **** percent of merchants in Italy with at least one Payment Acceptance or Payment Processor technology up to August 2023 had Google Pay on their website. Websites from India ranked relatively low in this list, potentially indicating Google Pay is either used more as an offline payment method or that Google Pay is integrated within UPI in the country.

Over ** percent of all the websites in the world that use Stripe as a check-out option in 2023 originate from the United States. This according to data from an intelligence tool that tracks the adoption of certain technologies. The number for the U.S. is about as much as the number of websites for all of Europe combined. Japan's figure closely resembles that of Canada, potentially indicating that the Irish payment processor is used relatively often in Asia-Pacific compared to other parts of the world.