According to a May 2023 survey of social media users in the United States, over ** percent of users aged between 18 and 24 years were on TikTok. In comparison, approximately ** percent of U.S. teens were on TikTok and interacted with the app on a monthly basis. TikTok usage diminished in older users, with only ** percent of U.S. users aged between 55 and 64 years reporting engaging with the popular social video app.

In 2023, social video app TikTok had approximately 102 million users in the United States. This figure is projected to increase by over five percent year-over-year, reaching 107.8 million users in 2024. TikTok is one of the fastest-growing social media apps in the United States and especially popular with younger digital audiences.

These TikTok user statistics tell the whole story of the new social media giant and give you some insights into the app's future.

Launched in 2016, TikTok rose to be one of the most popular social app and video platform for global users. In 2021, TikTok had approximately 656 million global users. This figure was projected to increase by around 15 percent year-over-year, reaching 755 million users in 2022. TikTok global installs peaked at the end of 2019, with the app amassing over 318 million downloads. During 2020 and 2021, TikTok download trends experienced a slower growth, amassing 173 million downloads from users worldwide during the last quarter of 2021.

In 2020, TikTok brought in $33.4 billion in revenue.

Globally the average user spends 52 minutes on TikTok every day. About 90% of their worldwide users access TikTok on a daily basis.

As of February 2025, the United States was the region with the largest TikTok audience by far, with almost ****** million users engaging with the popular social video platform. Indonesia followed, with around ***** million TikTok users. Brazil came in third, with almost ***** million users on TikTok watching short-videos. From Reels to Shorts: social short video takes the internet Between 2021 and 2022 some of the most popular social media platforms have been adding short-video features on the heels of TikTok’s popularity. YouTube Shorts, which rolled out to the global market in June 2021, reached *** billion monthly active logged-in users in 2023. In comparison, Instagram’s short-video format Reels, which launched in August 2020, presented a higher view rate than regular videos on the platform between June 2021 and June 2022, as well as a higher likes rate than other content types on Instagram. TikTok business model TikTok is owned by the Beijing-based ByteDance, along with the short-video app Douyin (TikTok’s version for the Chinese market), video platform Xigua, and popular news app Toutiao. While the products intended for domestic market consumption operate in the Chinese digital ecosystem and have a plurality of established monetization methods such as a live-shopping events hosted by famous influencers, TikTok’s main revenue stream comes from online advertising. In 2022, TikTok was estimated to have generated around **** billion U.S. dollars worldwide via online advertising.

As of February 2025, it was found that around **** percent of TikTok's global audience were women between the ages of 18 and 24 years, while male users of the same age formed approximately **** percent of the platform's audience. The online audience of the popular social video platform was further composed of **** percent of female users aged between 25 and 34 years, and **** percent of male users in the same age group.

Teenagers make up the largest group of active users on TikTok.

As of February 2023, TikTok users in the United States spent ** percent of the time they dedicated to social media engagement with the popular short-video platform. Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram commanded ** percent of the online social time of TikTok users in the U.S., respectively. In comparison, the YouTube mobile app kept users engaged for ** percent of all the time they chose to dedicate to social media.

TikTok has 136 million monthly active users in the US alone.

TikTok is developing into a key platform for news, advertising, politics, online shopping, and entertainment in Germany, with over 20 million monthly users. Especially among young people, TikTok plays an increasing role in their information environment. We provide a human-coded dataset of over 4,000 TikTok videos from German-speaking news outlets from 2023. The coding includes descriptive variables of the videos (e.g., visual style, text overlays, and audio presence) and theory-derived concepts from the journalism sciences (e.g., news values).

This dataset consists of every second video published in 2023 by major news outlets active on TikTok from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The data collection was facilitated with the official TikTok API in January 2024. The manual coding took place between September 2024 and December 2024. For a detailed description of the data collection, validation, annotation and descriptive analysis, please refer to [Forthcoming dataset paper publication].

According to a January 2023 study of iOS users in the United States, 86 percent of women on TikTok reported liking a video they watched, while 79 percent of men reported doing the same as of the examined period. Around the same amount of men and women watched live-streamed videos, approximately 63 and 64 percent, respectively. More women than men sent a direct message to other users on the platform, with 40 percent of women reporting doing so as of January 2023.

As of June 2023, approximately 61.4 percent of TikTok users in the United States were women. In comparison, approximately 38.6 percent of TikTok users in the country were men. TikTok is a social video platform launched in 2017 as the international version of popular Chinese app Douyin.

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

As of June 2023, approximately 33.7 percent of TikTok users in the United States were aged between 19 and 25 years. Younger users aged below 18 years accounted for around 20 percent of the total. Users aged 46 years and older represented less than four percent of the platform's audience in the United States in the examined period.

In the first quarter of 2023, minor safety was the main reason to remove videos from TikTok, accounting for 31 percent of the removed content. Illegal activities and regulated goods ranked second at 27 percent, followed by adult nudity and sexual activities, at around 15 percent.

The largest group of TikTok users in Poland were those with a university degree and a primary education in 2023.

The average adult TikTok user in America spends 33 minutes per day on the app.

Overall, about ** percent of respondents to a survey on TikTok Shop usage reported that they have not used and are not interested in using TikTok Shop while ******percent reported having used it before. In comparison, among shoppers who used TikTok on a daily basis, ** percent said they have not and are not interested in using TikTok Shop while ** percent had used it before.