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Facebook User Count - Facebook's Growth

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Facebook User Count - The globe's largest social network is now also bigger: Facebook reported 2.4 billion monthly active customers (MAU) in Q1, per its incomes released Wednesday.

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 daily energetic users (DAU) to 1.56 billion, up 2.7% from last quarter as well as up 7.8% YoY.

Facebook User Count

Facebook User Count


In general, Facebook currently boasts 2.7 billion monthly users throughout its household of apps. That consists of Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, and also core Facebook, with 2.1 billion of those individuals accessing among the apps every day.

Here's a review of Facebook's individual growth by area:

  • United States & Canada. Facebook added 1 million MAU in the quarter, completing 243 million in the area. DAU were flat with Q4 2018 at 186 million.

  • Europe. Facebook added 3 million MAU (to 384 million) and also grew DAU by 4 million (to 286 million).

  • Asia-Pacific (APAC). Facebook included 34 million MAU (to 981 million) and 33 million DAU (to 600 million).

  • Relax of Globe (ROW). Facebook included 18 million MAU (to 768 million), with DAU up by 12 million (to 490 million).


Most of Facebook's user development is coming from regions outside of the United States, Canada, and Europe, although it's still adding individuals in those regions. If you ask United States teenagers, whose social media preferences can be considered a bellwether, Facebook isn't even their second favored social platform. Since 2019, teenagers choose Snapchat and also Instagram to Facebook by a slim chance, according to Piper Jaffray.

And in 2018, 51% of US teenagers ages 13-17 said they utilized Facebook, down from 71% in 2015, per Seat. Yet despite the decreasing usage amongst US teenagers, core Facebook continues to add customers worldwide-- especially in non-Western regions. In Q1, the large majority of Facebook's brand-new users originated from APAC as well as ROW areas, as an example.

And while Gen Z declares Facebook to be unnecessary, older generations in the US remain acquired in: Facebook remains extremely prominent among US grownups ages 25-29 (84% claim they utilize it) as well as 30-49 (79%), per Seat. That might make up the social media's consistent development in mature Western markets.

Customers are most likely coming to be increasingly inured to Facebook's continuous state of rumor. In the first 3 months of 2019 alone Facebook has actually had a number of major privacy events-- mistakenly leaking over a million Instagram customer's e-mails, difficulty curbingwhite supremacist content, a pending $3 to $5 billion penalty from the FTC.

And over the last few years, they've encountered scandals ranging from political election disturbance to huge breaches of user privacy. Still, these scandals appears to matter less and also much less to customers, and equally as Facebook investors remain undeterred, customers may be expanding numb to the continuous turmoil as well.

Alternatively, Facebook may just be so established that habitual users, whether or not they appreciate personal privacy rumors, feel they can't quit the website, as TechCrunch's Josh Constine kept in mind.