Friday, 13th August 2010

Social Media: Statistics: Top Countries on Facebook

A new chart from Royal Pingdom.

From the Blog Post:

Although Facebook initially focused on the United States, it soon turned its eyes towards the horizon and the rest of the world. And it’s a tactic that’s been working extremely well. Facebook’s current user base is more than 1.6 times the size of the entire US population. If Facebook were a country, it’d be second only to China and India.

Since we don’t have actual user numbers and demographics from Facebook itself (only Facebook has those), we looked at per-country traffic estimates to Facebook.com. The result is quite interesting. (We used data from Google Ad Planner, which provides traffic stats for a large number of sites.)

The Top 20 Countries are charted or listed.

Here are the Top Five:

1. United States...130 Million
2. United Kingdom...28 Million
3. Indonesia and Italy (Tie)...26 Million
5. France...21 Million

Others Nations of Special Interest

10. Canada...15 Million
14. Australia...9.1 Million

Fast Facts Based on the List

+ The United States alone accounts for almost 24% of Facebook’s users.

+ The United States has 4.6 times as many Facebook users as the second-largest country on Facebook, the United Kingdom.

+ The top 10 countries on Facebook account for almost 58% of its users.

Access the Complete Post (with Chart)

See Also: Twitter Usage Continues to Explode Around the World; Today, Nearly 3 Out of 4 Global Internet Users Access Social Networking Sites Each Month (via ResourceShelf)

Several Charts Including Top 20 by Market Penetration are Included in the Twitter Summary.

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