The number of Facebook users in Russia followed an upward trend until 2022. In January 2025, the figure was below ** million, having decreased from **** million in the corresponding month of 2022. In mid-March 2022, Facebook was blocked in Russia after Meta was claimed an extremist organization in the country.

In 2027, the share of monthly active Facebook users in Russia is projected to reach ***** percent of the total population in the country. This would be an increase of **** percent compared to ***** percent in 2022.

Facebook was more popular among women than men in Russia across all age groups as of October 2024. The largest share of Facebook users in the country was aged between 25 and 34 years, measuring at **** percent of total users.

According to the source there were nearly **** million Facebook users in Russia as of October 2024, with **** percent of those users being between 25 and 34 years of age. Users aged between 35 and 44 years were the next largest group at **** percent. In mid-March 2022, the social media platform was blocked in the country, as its parent company Meta was claimed an extremist organization.

There were 70 607 400 Facebook users in Russian Federation in September 2025, which accounted for 49.5% of its entire population. The majority of them were women - 58.9%. People aged 25 to 34 were the largest user group (22 000 000). The highest difference between men and women occurs within people aged 35 to 44, where women lead by 6 900 000.

The number of Facebook users in Russia increased by *** million users (+**** percent) in 2021 in comparison to the previous year. Therefore, the Facebook user base in Russia reached a peak in 2021 with ***** million users. Notably, the Facebook user base in this industry continuously increased over the last 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 *** 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).Find more key insights for the number of Facebook users in countries like Eastern Europe and Northern Europe.

This statistic displays a timeline of the number of active mobile Facebook users in Russia from 2013 to 2014 with forecasts until 2018. Facebook users are defined as mobile phone users of any age who access their Facebook account via mobile phone in browser or with the app at least once per month. In 2013, the number of active mobile phone Facebook users in Russia was **** million, and is expected to reach **** million users in 2018. This constitutes an increase of over 100 percent from 2013 to 2018. It was also forecast that the total number of Facebook user in Russia will increase to ***** million in 2018 and to ***** million by 2021. The forecast shows a steady increase of around * to *** million users per year. As of January 2017, Russia was the country with the highest number of monthly active mobile social media users in Europe with **** million, followed by the United Kingdom with ** million active users. France, Germany and Italy also showed a high number of monthly active users of social media on mobile devices. Further information about Facebook can be found in the Dossier: Facebook. Additional information about social media usage in Europe can be found in the Dossier: Social media usage in the European Union (EU).

There were 13 360 000 Facebook users in Russian Federation in October 2018, which accounted for 9.4% of its entire population. The majority of them were women - 53.3%. People aged 25 to 34 were the largest user group (4 400 000). The highest difference between men and women occurs within people aged 35 to 44, where women lead by 1 600 000.

Between July and December 2023, Facebook received one request for user data from the Russian government. After a peak of 33 total requests in the first half of 2021, the requests for user data from the Russian government have steadily decreased. Total requests include requests for data needed for legal processes, as well as emergency requests.

After Meta platforms Facebook and Instagram, as well as Twitter, were blocked in Russia in March 2022, the daily audience of VK and Telegram significantly increased compared to the period prior to the bans in February 2022. The number of daily users of Telegram grew by nearly 46 percent between February 24 and March 15, 2022.

Vkontakte enjoyed the highest place in the ranking of social networks in Russia, at 378 million monthly publications as of October 2024. Odnoklassniki followed with roughly over 150 million publications per month. VKontakte: the Facebook of Russia VKontakte, also referred to as VK, primarily services the Russian market with a social network that borrows very heavily from Facebook in terms of design and function. VK has undergone significant growth over the past five years, with its user base rising from 43.9 million users in March 2016 to 84.7 million users in December 2023. In that year, the number of downloads of the social media platform in question exceeded 14.6 million in Russia alone. VK’s presence is much smaller outside of Russia, however, with more than 2.4 million downloads in Kazakhstan over the same period.   Social media usage in Russia Although Russians tend to display a preference for nationally developed services such as VK and Odnoklassniki, Western social networks also have a significant users' base. Namely, nearly 4.7 million Russians are using Twitter, while the number of Instagram users in the country stood at nearly 64 million users in January 2024. Approximately 71 million Russians were also using Facebook as of January 2024.

Marta Kowal1*, Piotr Sorokowski1, Agnieszka Sorokowska1, Małgorzata Dobrowolska2, Katarzyna Pisanski1, Anna Oleszkiewicz1, 51, Toivo Aavik3, Grace Akello5, Charlotte Alm6, Naumana Amjad7, Afifa Anjum7, Kelly Asao8, Chiemezie S. Atama9, Derya Atamtürk Duyar10, Richard Ayebare11, Mons Bendixen12, Aicha Bensafia15, Boris Bizumic14, Mahmoud Boussena15, David M. Buss8, Marina Butovskaya16, Seda Can17, Katarzyna Cantarero18, Antonin Carrier19, Hakan Cetinkaya17, Daniel Conroy-Beam20, Marco A. Correa Varella21, Rosa M. Cueto22, Marcin Czub1, Daria Dronova16, Seda Dural17, Izzet Duyar10, Berna Ertugrul10, Agustín Espinosa22, Ignacio Estevan23, Carla S. Esteves24, Tomasz Frąckowiak1, Jorge C. Graduño25, Farida Guemaz13, Mária Haľamová26, Marina Horvat27, Ivana Hromatko28, Chin-Ming Hui29, Herak Iskra19, Jas L. Jaafar30, Feng Jiang31, Konstantinos Kafetsios32, Tina Kavcic33, Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair12, Nicolas Kervyn19, Nils C. Köbis34, András Láng36, Georgina R. Lennard14, Ernesto León22, Torun Lindholm6, Giulia Lopez37, Mohammad Madallh Alhabahba38, Alvaro Mailhos23, Zoi Manesi34, Rocio Martinez39, Sarah L. McKerchar14, Norbert Meskó36, Girishwar Misra40, Hoang Moc Lan41, Conal Monaghan14, Emanuel C. Mora42, Alba Moya-Garofano39, Bojan Musil27, Jean C. Natividade43, George Nizharadze44, Elisabeth Oberzaucher45, Mohd S. Omar Fauzee46, Ernest Onyishi9, Baris Özener10, Ariela F. Pagani37, Vilmante Pakalniskiene47, Miriam Parise37, Farid Pazhoohi48, Mariia Perun49, Annette Pisanski42, 50, Camelia Popa21, Pavol Prokop52, 53, Muhammad Rizwan54, Mario Sainz4, Svjetlana Salkičević28, Ruta Sargautyte47, Ivan Sarmany-Schuller26, Susanne Schmehl45, Oksana Senyk49, Rizwana Shaikh55, Shivantika Sharad56, Franco Simonetti57, Meri Tadinac28, Truong Thi Khanh Ha41, Trinh Thi Linh41, Karina Ugalde González58, Olga Uhryn59, Nguyen Van Luot41, Christin- Melanie Vauclair24, Luis D. Vega Araya58, Gyesook Yoo60, Stanislava Yordanova Stoyanova61, Zainab F. Zadeh62, Marta Zaťková26, Maja Zupančič35.1University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland.2Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland.3University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.4School of Psychology, University of Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.5Gulu University, Gulu, Uganda.6Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.7University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.8University of Texas at Austin, Austin, U.S.A.9University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.10Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.11THETA Uganda, Kampala, Uganda.12Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.13University Setif2, Algeria.14Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.15University Algiers2, Algeria.16Institute of ethnology and anthropology, Moscow, Russia.17Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey.18SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Wrocław, Poland.19Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.20University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.21University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.22Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima, Perú.23University of the Republic Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay. 24Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), CIS-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal.25National Autonomous University of Mexico, ENES, Morelia, Mexico.26Institute of Experimental Psychology, Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences SAS, Bratislava, Slovakia.27University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia.28University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.29Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.30University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.31Huaqiao University, Quanzhou, China.32University of Crete, Crete, Greece.33University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia.34University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands35University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.36University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary.37Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy.38Middle East University, Amman, Jordan.39University of Granada, Grenada, Spain.40University of Delhi, Delhi, India.41University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi, Vietnam.42University of Havana, Havana, Cuba.43Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.44Free University of Tbilisi, Tbilisi, Georgia45University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.46University Utara Malaysia, Sintok, Malaysia.47Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.48University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. 49Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine.50University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada51Smell and Taste Clinic, Department of Otorinolaryngology, Dresden, Germany.52Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.53Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia.54COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan.55Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan.56Vivekananda College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.57Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.58Latin University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica.59Lviv State University of Internal Affairs, Lviv, Ukraine.60Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.61South-West University "Neofit Rilski", Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria.62Bahria University, Karachi, Pakistan.* Correspondence: Marta Kowal marta.kowal2@uwr.edu.pl

United States Foreign LT Sec: UH: FB: Europe: Russia data was reported at 13.283 USD bn in Apr 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 13.672 USD bn for Mar 2018. United States Foreign LT Sec: UH: FB: Europe: Russia data is updated monthly, averaging 11.278 USD bn from Dec 2011 (Median) to Apr 2018, with 77 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 15.459 USD bn in Apr 2013 and a record low of 6.829 USD bn in Jan 2016. United States Foreign LT Sec: UH: FB: Europe: Russia data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Department of Treasury. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.Z046: Foreign Long Term Securities by US Holders: By Country.

Nearly ************* people in Russia were users of Facebook Messenger as of January 2025. A significant growth in the number of Facebook Messenger users in the country was recorded over the course of 2020.

As of January 2025, Russia had the most Facebook users in the Caucasus region, with over ** million users. Azerbaijan ranked second with approximately *** million users.   Facebook usage in Russia Facebook, together with some other social media platforms of Meta, were banned in Russia in 2022. Prior to the ban, Facebook’s popularity in Russia was conditioned by the presence of VK, or previously VKontakte, for some the local version of the former. In 2022, Facebook ranked sixth by number of social media publications in the country, while VK listed first. When it comes to user demographics, users aged 25 to 34 years represented the largest share of Meta Platforms' advertising audience in the country. Global overview Even though Facebook was not the most popular social media platform in Russia, it remained the global leader with more than ***** billion active users as of 2024. In terms of usage by country, the largest number of the Facebook users was recorded in India, at approximately *** million as of April 2024.

The most common purpose of Facebook usage in Russia was to communicate with friends and acquaintances in private chats, named by around ********* of users of that social media platform in 2021. Furthermore, less then ** percent of respondents reported using Facebook for news reading.

Italy Exports: Russia: FB: Prepared Animal Fodder, Food Industries Residues data was reported at 618,706.000 kg in Jan 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1,236,700.000 kg for Dec 2024. Italy Exports: Russia: FB: Prepared Animal Fodder, Food Industries Residues data is updated monthly, averaging 1,106,206.000 kg from Jul 1992 (Median) to Jan 2025, with 391 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 30,632,560.000 kg in Nov 1992 and a record low of 0.000 kg in May 2004. Italy Exports: Russia: FB: Prepared Animal Fodder, Food Industries Residues data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Italian National Institute of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Italy – Table IT.JA013: Exports: by Country and Commodity: by 2 Digit HS Code: Volume.

Most Facebook users in Russia were using their mobile devices of any kind for accessing the platform as of *********. Nearly ** percent of the Facebook audience in the country only used mobile phones for such purposes.

During the second half of 2023, Facebook received zero requests from the Russian government for user and account preservation. Preservation requests from the Russian government significantly decreased during the first half of 2022, the time period in which Russia's invasion of Ukraine began, and have remained low ever since. When Meta receives a preservation request, it preserves a snapshot of the relevant account information. However, the company does not reveal any of the preserved documents unless they get formal and legitimate legal procedure.

Among Meta Platforms, the messenger WhatsApp had the largest audience in Russia, with nearly 84 million monthly users in January 2022. Instagram was used by 67 million Russians in that month. A lower user count was recorded for Facebook, to which consumers preferred domestic social networks like VK (Vkontakte) and Ok.ru (Odnoklassniki). Russia was the third-largest market of WhatsApp by number of users in 2020, following only India and Brazil. Furthermore, it was the most popular messenger app in the country, with nearly twice as many monthly users as those of Telegram.

Facebook and Twitter ban in Russia in 2022 In response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine that started in February 2022, Meta blocked Facebook pages of Russian state-owned media RT and Sputnik in the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK). On March 4, 2022, The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) banned Facebook for discriminating against Russian media. It also blocked Twitter, demanding that the platform removed false information about the military attack.

Instagram ban in Russia in 2022 On March 10, 2022, Reuters reported that Meta permitted Facebook and Instagram posts in several countries that contained violent speech toward Russian soldiers in relation to the war, which would otherwise be prohibited under the company's hate speech policy. On the following day, the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia considered that propaganda of terrorism and requested to designate Meta as an extremist organization and ban its activity in the country. Meta's global affairs chief Nick Clegg stated on March 11, 2022, that the policy changes would only apply in Ukraine. Roskomnadzor banned Instagram access in Russia on March 14, 2022.