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.  

As of February 2025, it was found that men between the ages of 25 and 34 years made up Facebook's largest audience, accounting for 18.5 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.

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Users aged 25 to 34 years old made up the largest audience of Facebook in the United Kingdom in January 2025, accounting for 24.7 percent of all users. Overall, Facebook users aged 35 to 44 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 39.01 million in September 2018, according to napoleoncat.com. However, since a peak of 57.1 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 305 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 211 million British pounds in revenue during 2015, a figure that skyrocketed  to 842 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 one billion British pounds. In the third quarter of 2024, the company’s total European revenue reached over 9.49 billion U.S. dollars 

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

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.

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In March 2018, heavy Facebook users were likely to use the application for 82.6 hours per month, whereas their activity on the YouTube app reached an average of 18.8 hours per month. Nevertheless, in terms of the two platforms' engagement rate, YouTube had more than doubled online user activity levels compared to Facebook.

Popularity of Facebook

In May 2020, there were almost 19.5 million Facebook users, which was a steady increase from the previous year. The platform is most popular among Poles aged 25 to 34 years old, and women users dominate it. Moreover, most photo-sharing platform users also came from a primary educational background and lived in the countryside. Nearly all of the Polish users accessed Facebook via their mobile phone in 2020. Moreover, Facebook holds the highest advertising reach among the leading social media platforms in Poland, with e-commerce figuring as the most popular industry, with over 32.8 million fans. Looking at the financial results, in 2019, profits from sales or operations of Facebook Poland more than tripled compared to the previous year.

Demographics of YouTube users

Polish people of all ages are open to the socializing and entertaining roles of other popular social media. Popularity wise, YouTube is fast catching up with TV, with at least 88 percent of Poles watching the platform’s video content at least once a month. The most viewed YouTube videos fall under the entertainment and education categories. In 2019, the dominating age group for YouTube users was between 25 to 34 years old and with men accounting for almost 58 percent of all users. Simultaneously, 28 percent of the video-sharing platform users resided in the countryside and mostly had a primary school education background.

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36.6% of Twitter users are aged 25-34 and make up the biggest age group on the platform. Only 2.4% of Twitter users are aged 13-17.

As of February 2025, Facebook Messenger saw in men aged between 25 and 34 years their main demographic. More than 19 percent of men in this age group reported using the Meta-branded communication platform. Approximately 13 percent of women in the same age group reported using Messenger in the same examined period.

There were 22 500 000 Facebook users in Australia in March 2024, which accounted for 82% of its entire population. The majority of them were women - 52.9%. People aged 25 to 34 were the largest user group (5 700 000). The highest difference between men and women occurs within people aged 65 and above, where women lead by 1 100 000.

The most significant cohorts of users on Instagram are aged 18 – 24.

80% of parents say that their children under the age of 11 watch YouTube regularly.

There are more male LinkedIn users than females – although it is pretty balanced.

Snapchat has a reach into 75% of the millenial and Gen Z audience.

I’ve compiled a list of the latest social media user statistics showing just how big social media has become and where it’s likely to go in the future.

As of February 2025, 37.5 percent of X’s (formerly Twitter) global audience was aged between 25 and 34 years. The second-largest age group demographic on the platform was represented by users aged between 18 and 24 years, with a share of 32.1 percent. Users aged less than 18 years accounted for two percent of users, while those aged 50 or older accounted for roughly 7.3 percent. X is a male-dominated platform As of January 2024, more than 60 percent of X users were male. Although all mainstream social media platforms tend to have a slightly more male-skewing audience, X stands out above Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and Facebook when it comes to user gender demographics. Overall, Pinterest is the only mainstream platform to have a higher share of female users. X Blue for you It is not uncommon for social media users to now have the chance to become subscribers of their chosen online networks for a monthly fee. X Blue is a subscription service from X that gives users special benefits and features. A blue verification mark, edit post functionality, fewer ads, priority ranking in chats, and longer video upload times are some of the perks offered.

The vast majority of TikTok users are below 30 years old. Approximately 37 million Gen-Zers used TikTok in the US.

These are the key social media statistics that you need to know.