Regional TikTok user statistics differentiate significantly. Each major region has also experienced growth a different times.

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.

As of February 2025, the United States was the region with the largest TikTok audience by far, with almost 135.79 million users engaging with the popular social video platform. Indonesia followed, with around 107.7 million TikTok users. Brazil came in third, with almost 91.75 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 two 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 four billion U.S. dollars worldwide via online advertising.

As of 2024 there are currently over 1 billion active users on TikTok worldwide.

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

As of February 2025, there were around six million users of TikTok in the Netherlands and 3.71 million users in Belgium. The Netherlands finds a large share of its user base among those aged 20 to 24 years.

In February 2025, Sweden had around 3.3 million TikTok users, while Norway was home to approximately 1.71 million TikTok users. Denmark and Iceland had 1.37 and 0.14 million TikTok users, respectively. TikTok is a video sharing social app launched in 2017 and is owned by the Beijing-based tech company ByteDance.

TikTok demographics and engagement TikTok user base across Nordic markets is equally distributed across male and female users alike. However, Denmark registered the highest proportion of female users in the region, approximately 52 percent. The social video app's appeal varies significantly across age groups, with young users and Gen Z responding very positively to the appeal of TikTok short video format. A 2023 survey conducted in Sweden revealed that 66 percent of internet users aged 15-24 engaged with TikTok daily, compared to only 15 percent of users aged 25-44. Similarly, over half of internet users aged between 15 and 19 accessed TikTok daily in Denmark, while engagement among users aged between 20 and 24 interested approximately one-third of the demographic group.

YouTube use and demographics in the Nordics Despite its increasing popularity, TikTok still trails behind YouTube when it comes to viewership. As of January 2024, Sweden had approximately 8.5 million YouTube users, nearly 2.5 times its TikTok user count. Norway and Finland each had around 4.5 million YouTube users, significantly outpacing their respective TikTok audiences. As in the case of TikTok, YouTube's user base in the Nordics is evenly split between men and women engaging with the video platform. Additionally, YouTube popularity was not restricted to the younger segments of Swedish demographic groups, as over six in 10 Swedish internet users were reported engaging with YouTube daily.

In September 2021, social video app TikTok reported 1 billion monthly active users worldwide, representing a 45 percent growth compared to the previously reported figure of 689 million MAU in July 2020. TikTok is one of the biggest social networks worldwide.

The number of TikTok users in France was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2028 by in total 1.4 million (+8.02 percent). After the tenth consecutive increasing year, the TikTok user base is estimated to reach 18.89 million and therefore a new peak in 2028. Notably, the number of TikTok users of was continuously increasing over the past years.

In 2021, TikTok increased its U.S. user base by over 29 percent compared to the previous year. Audience growth of the social video platform is projected to remain in double digits until 2021, before slowing down to a 8.1 percent annual user growth rate in 2022. In 2021, TikTok had 86.9 million users in the United States.

In an online survey conducted during the third quarter of 2023, 23.6 percent of internet users in the United Kingdom reported that WhatsApp was their favorite social media platform, whilst 19 percent said that Facebook was their favorite. Overall, only around one in ten users said that TikTok was their favorite social media service, even though brand awareness of the app is high in the UK.

As of February 2023, TikTok users in the United States spent 32 percent of the time they dedicated to social media engagement with the popular short-video platform. Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram commanded 20 percent of the online social time of TikTok users in the U.S., respectively. In comparison, the YouTube mobile app kept users engaged for 15 percent of all the time they chose to dedicate to social media.

In March 2023, social video app TikTok reported 150 million monthly active users in the United States, representing a 50 percent growth compared to the previously reported figure of 100 million MAU in August 2020. The latest MAU figure, which was released by the company ahead of its CEO being questioned by the U.S. Congress at the end of March 2023, showcases the popularity increase experienced by TikTok in the United States in the last years.

The reach by social network in the 'TikTok' segment of the digital advertising market in Europe was forecast to continuously increase between 2023 and 2028 by in total 31.6 million users (+12.46 percent). After the tenth consecutive increasing year, the indicator is estimated to reach 285.21 million users and therefore a new peak in 2028. Notably, the reach by social network of the 'TikTok' segment of the digital advertising market was continuously increasing over the past years.Find more in-depth information regarding the ad spending concerning the classifieds segment of the digital advertising market in the United Kingdom and the share of revenue generated via mobile purchases concerning the digital advertising mobile segment of the digital advertising market in the Netherlands. The Statista Market Insights cover a broad range of additional markets.

Latin America has become the fastest-growing region for TikTok worlwide, especially in 2020, when it overtook Twitter and Snapchat and became the third-largest social network in the region. In 2021, there were an estimated 120.7 million TikTok users in Latin America and the social video app is projected to increase its audience size from 2019 by six times in 2023.

As of March 2021, female users accounted for 61 percent of TikTok's active user accounts in the United States. According to App Ape, male users only accounted for 39 percent of the video sharing app's user base on the Android platform.

TikTok, a social video app that has been a hit with young people, had over 8.9 million active users in the month of January 2022 in the United Kingdom. Between 2020 and the beginning of 2022, monthly TikTok usage in the UK has experienced a constantly growing trend, with a peak of 9.2 million monthly active users in October 2021 across iOS and Android devices combined.

In 2021, women aged 13 to 17 years accounted for 20 percent of TikTok audiences in the United States. Male teens in the same age group accounted for approximately 7.5 percent of TikTok audiences. The social video app TikTok was more popular among users aged between 18 and 24 years old, with 29 percent of women and 10.15 percent of men in this demographic being reported to use TikTok.

TikTok, a social video app launched in 2016 used for sharing and creating video content, continues to grow in popularity. As of 2022, approximately 41 percent of users in the U.S. engaged with the popular social video app. Around seven in 10 respondents aged between 18 and 19 years were using TikTok, while usage among respondents aged between 20 and 29 years was approximately 56 percent.

TikTok global usage In 2021, TikTok had 1 billion active monthly users worldwide, a growth of 45 percent on the previous year. As of April 2021, the majority of global TikTok users spent less than one hour per week on the platform. Eleven percent of users spent five to ten hours a week on the app, and six percent were using it for ten hours or more per week.

Users' opinion: safety concerns and positive influenceOnline TikTok challenges and hoaxes have been a topic of discussion in recent years, with parents raising concerns about safety regarding content posted on the platform. As for U.S. adults’ opinions of TikTok, favorable attitudes towards the platform decrease with age. Overall, as of November 2021, 33 percent of users aged 18 to 34 years had a favorable opinion of the app, but just one in 10 users aged between 45 and 64 years felt the same. Around 20 percent of all adults had a very unfavorable view of TikTok. Despite the criticism, the platform hosts a large number of positive influencers, focusing on themes such as mental health awareness and body positivity. In 2021, one of the most followed TikTok educators and activists was Nicole Lilly Christou, with her profile @nikkililly reporting approximately 7.7 million followers in the United Kingdom alone.