The number of Pinterest users in Brazil was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2028 by in total 7.1 million users (+15.44 percent). After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the Pinterest user base is estimated to reach 53.09 million users and therefore a new peak in 2028. Notably, the number of Pinterest users of was continuously increasing over the past years.User figures, shown here regarding the platform pinterest, 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 early 2024, there were 96 million Pinterest users in the United States, making it the country with the most Pinterest users by far. Ranking second was Germany, with 22.5 million users. Pinterest’s audience In the first quarter of 2024, Pinterest had a total of 518 million monthly active users (MAUs) worldwide, an increase of 2 million users from the previous quarter. Throughout 2021, the social media site saw a steady decline in MAUs, after seeing a constant increase throughout 2020. The increase in usage of many social media platforms coincides with the COVID-19 pandemic and consequent lockdowns. As of April 2024, significantly more women than men used Pinterest, with women making up almost 3/4 of its user base. The platform’s largest audience, in terms of gender and age, was women between the ages of 25 to 34, who accounted for more than a fifth of all users, followed by women aged 18 to 24 years. User satisfaction According to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), as of June 2021, Pinterest scored the highest level of customer satisfaction for selected social media sites, ranking ahead of platforms such as YouTube, Wikipedia, and TikTok. Overall, Pinterest received a total score of 78 out of 100 index points. Pinterest’s financials For the financial year 2023, Pinterest generated over 3 billion U.S. dollars in global annual revenue, a rise from the previous year’s result of 2.8 billion U.S. dollars. The majority of this revenue was generated in the United States. Additionally, in the last quarter of 2023, the social media platform reported a net loss of over 200 million U.S. dollars. As of June 2023, Pinterest was one of the biggest consumer internet and online service companies worldwide in terms of market capitalization. With a market cap of 19 billion U.S. dollars, Pinterest ranked in 16th place, ahead of Chewy, Delivery Hero, and Etsy.

According to a 2024 survey, around 51 percent of leading social media platform users in Brazil were women and 49 percent were men. Among these networks, Reddit and Twitch had the largest proportion of male users, with men making up 64 percent and 62 percent of the audience of each platform, respectively. Conversely, around 67 percent of Pinterest users in Brazil were women. Meanwhile, platforms like Twitch and Tumblr in Brazil had the largest shares of Generation Z users when compared to other mainstream platforms in the country.

As of the third quarter of 2024, WhatsApp was the most used social media platform in Brazil for 93.7 percent of the country's online audience. Instagram and Facebook followed, each being used by 92 and 81.5 percent of the Brazilian internet users. TikTok and Telegram were accessed by around 63.9 and 57.1 percent of users, while Facebook Messenger, Pinterest, Kuaishou, and LinkedIn accounted for smaller shares.

According to a 2024 survey, around 41 percent of social media platform users in Brazil had a Bachelor's degree qualification. Another 27 percent of social network users had an upper secondary education and were eligible to attend university, while another ten percent of respondents had technical or vocational education qualifications. Among all platforms, LinkedIn and Pinterest were the ones in which most of its users had a college degree.

In 2022, Brazil was home to 150.12 million Facebook users. The number has been projected to reach 151.63 in 2027, a drop from the 152.2 million of 2025. Brazil was the largest Facebook user base in Latin America in 2022, followed by Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina.

The upper hand among heavy users Brazilians spend more time on social media than any other population in the Western Hemisphere. Their heavy use of these platforms contributes to the prevalence of Mark Zuckerberg’s social network. Through Facebook, people in Brazil try to get to know more about the world and to keep in touch with each other: around half of adults on the social network used it as a source of news.

Limits to growth? In the first half of 2022, Facebook accounted for almost 48.56 percent of all social media site visits in Brazil. Furthermore, throughout the COVID-19 outbreak – the market shares of Facebook, YouTube, and Pinterest decreased in Brazil compared with the first half of 2019.

In the six months ending March 2024, the United States accounted for 38.06 percent of web traffic to the visual blogging site Pinterest.com. Second-ranked Brazil accounted for 8.74 percent of traffic to the website.

As of February 2025, India had a total of 413.85 million Instagram users, the largest Instagram audience in the world. The United States had 171.7 million users, and Brazil had 140.7 million. Indonesia, Turkey, and Japan ranked in fourth, fifth and sixth position, respectively. Kazakhstan is the leading country for Instagram audience reach, with 86.2 percent of the population using the social media service. Turkey came in second, with a penetration rate of 85.5 percent and Uruguay ranked third, with 87.1 percent, followed closely by the UAE, Brazil, and Bahrain. It took Instagram 11.2 years to reach the milestone of 2 billion monthly active users worldwide. WhatsApp, also owned by Meta, took 11 years, whilst Facebook took 13.3 years and YouTube took just over 14 years. Instagram’s demographics in the United States As of March 2025, Instagram was the fourth most visited social media service in the United States, after Facebook, Pinterest and X. Out of TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat, TikTok was the most used of all three platforms by Generation Z. Overall, 57 percent of Gen Z social media users used Instagram in 2021, down from 61 percent in 2020 and 64 percent in 2019. Instagram finds most popularity with those in the 25 to 34 year age group, and as of January 2025, roughly 28.3 of all users in the United States belonged to this age group. The social media app was also more likely to be used by women. Most followed accounts on Instagram Instagram’s official account had the most followers as of April 2024 with over 672 million followers. Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo (@cristiano) had over 628 million followers on the platform, while the Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi (@leomessi) had over 502 million followers. The Instagram accounts of the American singer and actress Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) and the media personality and makeup mogul Kylie Jenner (@kyliejenner) had over 400 million followers each.

As of January 2024, India had a total of 362 million Instagram users, the largest Instagram audience in the world. The United States had 169 million users, and Brazil had 134 million. Indonesia, Turkey, and Japan ranked in fourth, fifth and sixth position, respectively. Brunei is the leading country for Instagram audience reach, with 92 percent of the population using the social media service. Guam came in second, with a penetration rate of 79.2 percent and the Cayman Islands ranked third, with 78.8 percent, followed closely by Kazakhstan, Iceland and Montenegro. It took Instagram 11.2 years to reach the milestone of 2 billion monthly active users worldwide. WhatsApp, also owned by Meta, took 11 years, whilst Facebook took 13.3 years and YouTube took just over 14 years. Instagram’s demographics in the United States As of May 2021, Instagram was the fourth most visited social media service in the United States, after Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter. Out of TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat, TikTok was the most used of all three platforms by Generation Z. Overall, 57 percent of Gen Z social media users used Instagram, down from 61 percent in 2020 and 64 percent in 2019. Instagram finds most popularity with those in the 25 to 34 year age group, and as of December 2021, roughly a third of all users in the United States belonged to this age group. The social media app was also more likely to be used by women. Most followed accounts on Instagram Instagram’s official account had the most followers as of February 2022 with over 470 million followers. Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo (@cristiano) had over 401 million followers on the platform and media personality and makeup mogul Kylie Jenner (@kyliejenner) had over 309 million followers. National Geographic (@natgeo) had over 206.9 million followers, sharing educational content through its renowned photojournalism.

In August 2024, Facebook concentrated around 33.04 percent of all social media site visits in Brazil. It was followed by Instagram and Pinterest with around 26.15 percent and 20.79 percent, respectively. Women were the majority of Instagram and Facebook users in Brazil.

In 2020, more than half (54.18 percent) of e-commerce websites in Brazil were present on Facebook. Nearly 40 percent of e-businesses in the South American country were on YouTube, while less than five percent used Pinterest. Likewise, Facebook alone concentrated more than half of all social media site visits in Brazil.

Between 2019 and 2020, the market shares of Facebook and Pinterest have declined in most of the six largest Latin American markets. In Brazil and Colombia, Facebook's market shared decreased by nearly 15 and 12 percent, respectively. Only in Chile Mark Zuckerberg's flagship saw an increase in market share: it went almost 5.2 percent up. Concurrently, Pinterest's market share in Chile decreased by over a third, while just in Brazil it went up – by around one third as well.

More videos, anyone? Even though YouTube’s market share in Latin American countries remains somewhat modest – rarely surpassing 15 percent – it has risen amidst COVID-19 outbreak in the region. In Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico, the market share of Google’s video platform increased by approximately 74, 70, and 57 percent, respectively. But not all social media users turned to YouTube more often while quarantining: its market share decreased by almost one fifth in Brazil.

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Instagram, which also belongs to Facebook, Inc., saw a more consistent expansion across Latin America’s key social media markets. In Brazil, its market share increased by nearly two thirds; in Mexico, by more than 50 percent; and in Peru, by over a fourth. Similarly, Twitter recorded growth in most of the countries listed, despite a two percent decrease in market share in Mexico. The market share of this San Francisco-based microblogging service rose by roughly 70 percent in Brazil and by 51 percent in Colombia.