The lastest Facebook usage statistics show some interesting trends.
-Facebook is still growing quickly and is far from 'being the new MySpace' as some people have claimed!
- There have been some significant gains across the top 30 Facebook countries by number of users, particularly notable are India, Brazil and Asia (Thailand, Taiwan etc)
- There are now strong signs that Facebook is even starting to seriously challenge in markets where there has been a strong local player - Netherlands, South Korea, Russia (and Facebook is starting to show traction in Japan now too.)
The table below shows the top 30 countries by number of active Facebook users with Facebook data from 1st April 2011 compared to April 2010 and April 2009 Facebook usage statistics (leave a comment if you want to know statistics for other countries.)
Here are the Top 30 countries with highest number of Facebook users (1st Apr 2011 - data from Facebook):
-Facebook is still growing quickly and is far from 'being the new MySpace' as some people have claimed!
- There have been some significant gains across the top 30 Facebook countries by number of users, particularly notable are India, Brazil and Asia (Thailand, Taiwan etc)
- There are now strong signs that Facebook is even starting to seriously challenge in markets where there has been a strong local player - Netherlands, South Korea, Russia (and Facebook is starting to show traction in Japan now too.)
The table below shows the top 30 countries by number of active Facebook users with Facebook data from 1st April 2011 compared to April 2010 and April 2009 Facebook usage statistics (leave a comment if you want to know statistics for other countries.)
Here are the Top 30 countries with highest number of Facebook users (1st Apr 2011 - data from Facebook):
| Rank | Country | Number of Facebook users April 2009 | Number of Facebook users April 2010 | Number of Facebook users 1st April 2011 | 12 month growth % | 24 month growth % |
| 1 | USA | 56,796,060 | 114,190,780 | 154,226,960 | 35.1% | 171.6% |
| 2 | Indonesia | 2,325,840 | 20,775,320 | 35,177,260 | 69.3% | 1412.5% |
| 3 | UK | 17,866,140 | 24,378,040 | 29,673,740 | 21.7% | 66.1% |
| 4 | Turkey | 9,759,780 | 20,538,740 | 27,665,280 | 34.7% | 183.5% |
| 5 | India | 1,561,000 | 7,809,800 | 22,956,220 | 193.9% | 1370.6% |
| 6 | Mexico | 2,142,080 | 9,208,560 | 22,799,780 | 147.6% | 964.4% |
| 7 | Philippines | 1,026,300 | 11,561,740 | 22,376,740 | 93.5% | 2080.3% |
| 8 | France | 8,946,140 | 17,317,460 | 21,748,240 | 25.6% | 143.1% |
| 9 | Italy | 8,260,300 | 15,486,480 | 19,143,520 | 23.6% | 131.8% |
| 10 | Canada | 11,597,420 | 13,952,740 | 17,792,280 | 27.5% | 53.4% |
| 11 | Germany | 1,955,240 | 8,454,240 | 17,499,060 | 107% | 795% |
| 12 | Brazil | 395,940 | 3,602,100 | 15,567,620 | 332.2% | 3831.8% |
| 13 | Argentina | 3,406,520 | 8,580,180 | 13,786,020 | 60.7% | 304.7% |
| 14 | Spain | 4,228,220 | 9,292,380 | 13,534,800 | 45.7% | 220.1% |
| 15 | Colombia | 4,838,760 | 8,681,500 | 13,122,300 | 51.2% | 171.2% |
| 16 | Malaysia | 1,197,560 | 5,552,660 | 10,088,720 | 81.7% | 742.4% |
| 17 | Australia | 5,327,260 | 7,922,140 | 9,862,820 | 24.5% | 85.1% |
| 18 | Taiwan | 205,500 | 6,107,100 | 9,053,660 | 48.3% | 4305.7% |
| 19 | Thailand | 284,340 | 2,895,320 | 8,699,080 | 200.5% | 2959.4% |
| 20 | Venezuela | 2,658,140 | 5,765,240 | 8,354,340 | 44.9% | 214.3% |
| 21 | Chile | 4,397,300 | 6,273,000 | 7,884,360 | 25.7% | 79.3% |
| 22 | Egypt | 1,252,100 | 2,816,480 | 6,662,100 | 136.5% | 432.1% |
| 23 | Poland | 293,800 | 2,211,940 | 5,986,640 | 170.7% | 1937.7% |
| 24 | Peru | 454,000 | 1,943,000 | 5,121,860 | 163.6% | 1028.2% |
| 25 | Russia | 201,840 | 906,440 | 4,371,040 | 382.2% | 2065.6% |
| 26 | South Korea | 156,740 | 566,780 | 4,230,500 | 646.4% | 2599.1% |
| 27 | Sweden | 2,052,080 | 3,422,680 | 4,203,500 | 22.8% | 104.8% |
| 28 | Netherlands | 615,520 | 2,292,600 | 4,111,260 | 79.3% | 567.9% |
| 29 | Belgium | 2,125,600 | 3,239,980 | 4,085,360 | 26.1% | 92.2% |
| 30 | Pakistan | 549,560 | 2,006,600 | 4,030,260 | 100.9% | 633.4% |
[*figures are taken from Facebook API and then compared to Facebook usage statistics lists that I have previously compiled (allowing the 12 month and 24 month comparisons.)]
As always, if you want to know the latest Facebook usage statistics for another country (and data is now published for almost every country in the world), leave a comment in the post below and I will post the relevant Facebook user statistics data.
