- On 1st July 2008, Facebook were reporting 82,451,680 active users, Facebook figures now show that Facebook has 233,864,820 global users.
- Facebook growth has come everywhere. USA Facebook users have increased by 41,567,420, but Facebook has also seen a growth rate of 3000% in Indonesia!
- In July 2008 11 countries had more than 1 million Facebook users, now 33 countries have more than 1 million Facebook users.
- Explosion in Facebook users numbers was seen in Western Europe (France, Spain etc) and South America (eg Chile) in the second half of 2008 (though numbers are still growing).
- More recently the fastest growing Facebook markets have been in Eastern Europe (eg Czech Republic), the Far East (Indonesia etc) and, significantly for Orkut, Brazil and India
Here are the Top 30 countries with highest number of Facebook users (2nd July 2009 - data from Facebook):
Rank | Country | Number of Facebook users | 12 month growth % | 6 month growth % |
1 | USA | 69,378,980 | 149.5% | 64.9% |
2 | UK | 18,711,160 | 67.5% | 25.3% |
3 | Turkey | 12,382,320 | 257.4% | 56.1% |
4 | Canada | 11,961,020 | 24.3% | 10.1% |
5 | France | 10,781,480 | 338.1% | 63.7% |
6 | Italy | 10,218,400 | 1980.7% | 82.9% |
7 | Indonesia | 6,496,960 | 2997.3% | 624.3% |
8 | Australia | 6,053,560 | 88.2% | 39.8% |
9 | Spain | 5,773,200 | 729.6% | 122.3% |
10 | Colombia | 5,760,300 | 138.8% | 58.6% |
11 | Argentina | 4,906,220 | 1073.8% | 117.5% |
12 | Chile | 4,830,680 | 129.4% | 16.3% |
13 | Mexico | 3,644,400 | 249.5% | 153% |
14 | Venezuela | 3,578,740 | 270.2% | 91% |
15 | India | 3,236,140 | 354.8% | 202.1% |
16 | Germany | 3,136,680 | 407.5% | 149.9% |
17 | Philippines | 2,719,560 | 1572.1% | 596.1% |
18 | Belgium | 2,372,460 | 346.2% | 43.3% |
19 | Sweden | 2,287,240 | 100.3% | 34.8% |
20 | Hong Kong | 2,087,580 | 149.1% | 43.1% |
21 | Malaysia | 1,995,040 | 342.8% | 134.6% |
22 | Denmark | 1,961,880 | 152.4% | 10.5% |
23 | Norway | 1,853,840 | 58.4% | 27.3% |
24 | South Africa | 1,720,820 | 96% | 87% |
25 | Greece | 1,638,980 | 224.6% | 64% |
26 | Egypt | 1,618,040 | 106.5% | 96.7% |
27 | Switzerland | 1,491,940 | 280.1% | 32.9% |
28 | Israel | 1,433,540 | 142.2% | 66.4% |
29 | Singapore | 1,384,760 | 198% | 87.1% |
30 | Finland | 1,097,600 | 109.9% | 19.4% |