How Many People Use Facebook - Facebook's Growth
By
Anjih Najxu
—
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
—
Total Facebook Users
That's up 2.5% from 2.3 billion in Q4 2018, as well as up 8.2% year-over-year (YoY) from 2.2 billion in Q1 2018. Furthermore, Facebook expanded its day-to-day active individuals (DAU) to 1.56 billion, up 2.7% from last quarter and also up 7.8% YoY.
How Many People Use Facebook
On the whole, Facebook currently flaunts 2.7 billion regular monthly customers across its household of applications. That includes Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, and also core Facebook, with 2.1 billion of those people accessing among the apps everyday.
Here's a rundown of Facebook's individual development by area:
- United States & Canada. Facebook added 1 million MAU in the quarter, totaling 243 million in the region. DAU were level with Q4 2018 at 186 million.
- Europe. Facebook added 3 million MAU (to 384 million) and expanded DAU by 4 million (to 286 million).
- Asia-Pacific (APAC). Facebook included 34 million MAU (to 981 million) and also 33 million DAU (to 600 million).
- Rest of Globe (ROW). Facebook included 18 million MAU (to 768 million), with DAU up by 12 million (to 490 million).
The majority of Facebook's user development is coming from areas outside of the US, Canada, as well as Europe, although it's still including individuals in those regions. If you ask United States teens, whose social networks choices can be considered a bellwether, Facebook isn't also their second favored social system. As of 2019, teenagers favor Snapchat as well as Instagram to Facebook by a slim chance, according to Piper Jaffray.
As well as in 2018, 51% of US teens ages 13-17 stated they utilized Facebook, below 71% in 2015, per Bench. However regardless of the declining use amongst US teens, core Facebook continues to include customers worldwide-- specifically in non-Western areas. In Q1, the huge bulk of Facebook's brand-new users originated from APAC and ROW regions, as an example.
And while Gen Z states Facebook to be unimportant, older generations in the US remain bought in: Facebook continues to be very popular amongst US adults ages 25-29 (84% state they utilize it) as well as 30-49 (79%), per Seat. That could represent the social network's consistent growth in fully grown Western markets.
Users are likely coming to be significantly inured to Facebook's continual state of detraction. In the first three months of 2019 alone Facebook has had numerous major personal privacy cases-- accidentally dripping over a million Instagram individual's emails, difficulty curbingwhite supremacist material, a pending $3 to $5 billion fine from the FTC.
And also over the last couple of years, they have actually faced scandals ranging from political election interference to substantial violations of customer privacy. Still, these detractions seems to matter much less and also much less to customers, as well as just as Facebook capitalists stay undeterred, users may be expanding numb to the continuous turmoil also.
Additionally, Facebook may just be so established that regular individuals, whether they care about personal privacy rumors, feel they can not give up the website, as TechCrunch's Josh Constine noted.