Here are a few of the most interesting Airbnb statistics and facts I was able to dig up including user counts. As always, be sure to check back in the future as I will be updating this post as new and updated stats become available.
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Airbnb Facts
- Website: Official Website
- Year Founded: 2008
- Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
- Founder(s): Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, Nathan Blecharczyk
- Current Chief Executive: Brian Chesky
- Employee Count: 3100
- Subsidiary: HotelTonight
- App Download (iOS)
- App Download (Android)
What is Airbnb?
Founded in 2008, Airbnb is a global travel community that offers magical end-to-end trips, including where you stay, what you do and the people you meet. Airbnb uniquely leverages technology to economically empower millions of people around the world to unlock and monetize their spaces, passions and talents to become hospitality entrepreneurs. (source)
Airbnb History
- 2008 – Airbnb launches
- 2009 – Airbedandbreakfast.com becomes Airbnb.com
- 2015 – Airbnb partners with Deutsche Telekom for mobile phone app pre-installation
- 2016 – Airbnb launches experiences feature
- 2017 – Airbnb acquires Tilt
- 2018 – Airbnb Plus is announced
- 2020 – Airbnb goes public
Airbnb User Count
How many people use Airbnb?
Last updated 9/12/18
How many Airbnb hosts are there?
Last updated 2/26/21
Additional Airbnb Statistics
Number of Airbnb listings:
Last updated 2/26/21
Airbnb’s total valuation:
Last updated 4/29/19
Total funding Airbnb has raised to date:
Last updated 6/12/17
Airbnb’s economic impact in 2018 (total):
Airbnb’s economic impact in 2018 (by country):
- US: $33.8 billion
- France: $10.8 billion
- Spain: $6.9 billion
- Italy: $6.4 billion
- UK: $5.6 billion
- Australia: $4.4 billion
- Canada $4.3 billion
- Japan: $3.5 billion
- Mexico: $2.7 billion
- Portugal: $2.3 billion
- Germany: $2.3 billion
- China: $2.3 billion
- Brazil $2.1 billion
- Greece: $1.4 billion
- Netherlands: $1.3 billion
- Korea: $1.2 billion
- Thailand: $1.1 billion
- New Zealand: $912 million
- Croatia: $910 million
- Ireland: $832 million
- Malaysia: $734 million
- South Africa: $685 million
- Argentina: $664 million
- Denmark: $654 million
- Switzerland: $651 million
- Austria: $625 million
- Indonesia: $593 million
- Philippines: $586 million
- Colombia: $560 million
- Czech Republic: $555 million
Amount that Airbnb hosts have earned to date:
Last updated 3/27/19
Number of cities that Airbnb is active in:
Last updated 2/26/21
Number of countries that Airbnb is active in:
Last updated 2/26/21
Total number of Airbnb guest arrivals all time:
Last updated 2/26/21
Average number of daily Airbnb bookings:
Last updated 5/5/19
Number of companies that use Airbnb for Work:
Last updated 8/6/18
Number of Airbnb listings in the U.S.:
Last updated 8/10/17
Top city for active Airbnb listings:
Last updated 8/6/18
Number of nights and experiences booked on Airbnb in FY 2020:
Airbnb gross booking value (GBV) in FY 2020:
Airbnb revenue in FY 2020:
Airbnb net loss in FY 2020:
Number of nights booked on Airbnb in Q1 2019:
Last updated 8/16/19
Airbnb’s growth rate in 2018:
Reported revenue for Airbnb in 2016:
Number of Airbnb guest arrivals in 2016:
Number of cities Airbnb offers experiences in:
Last updated 3/27/19
Number of experiences listed on Airbnb:
Last updated 3/27/19
Percentage of Airbnb traffic that comes through mobile devices:
Last updated 8/13/18
Average number of new Airbnb hosts per month:
Last updated 3/23/19
Airbnb’s most-visited listing:
Last updated 3/27/19
Average number of nightly Airbnb stays:
Last updated 3/23/19
Number of Airbnb listing nights booked in the US in 2018:
Total number of Airbnb guest arrivals from China:
Last updated 3/21/17
Estimated number of Airbnb listings in China:
Last updated 8/16/17
Number of Airbnb employees in China:
Last updated 3/21/17
Percentage of Airbnb users in China that are under the age of 35:
Last updated 10/23/17
Number of Airbnb listings in the US:
Last updated 3/25/18
Number of Airbnb listings in France:
Last updated 3/25/18
Number of Airbnb listings in Italy:
Last updated 3/25/18
Number of Airbnb listings in Spain:
Last updated 3/25/18
Number of Airbnb listings in the UK:
Last updated 3/25/18
Number of active Airbnb listings in Paris:
Last updated 8/6/18
Number of Airbnb listings in Los Angeles:
Last updated 8/6/18
Number of active Airbnb listings in London:
Last updated 5/5/19
Number of active Airbnb listings in New York:
Last updated 8/6/18
Number of active Airbnb listings in Rio De Janeiro:
Last updated 8/6/18
Number of active Airbnb listings in Barcelona:
Last updated 8/6/18
Number of active Airbnb listings in Rome:
Last updated 8/6/18
Number of active Airbnb listings in Moscow:
Last updated 8/6/18
Number of active Airbnb listings in Madrid:
Last updated 8/6/18
Number of active Airbnb listings in Berlin:
Last updated 8/6/18
Number of active Airbnb listings in Sydney:
Last updated 8/6/18
Reported amount Airbnb purchased HotelTonight for:
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