Here are a bunch of amazing Facebook statistics, facts, history and demographics that illustrate just how popular the social network is in 2019 and how much it is still growing.
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The story of Facebook is legendary; A group of Harvard University students, led by Mark Zuckerberg, got together in 2004 to create a social network to create a social network within the Harvard community. It quickly proved to be a success and spread to other colleges across the northeast and then from coast to coast. Finally, in 2006, it was opened up to the world and its unprecedented, exponential growth began, continuing to this day.
Facebook is now unquestionably the largest social network in the world with over two billion monthly active users and over a billion daily active users. With a platform as feature-rich and widely visited as Facebook’s there are countless stats that can be collected and tracked.
I have spent the past seven years identifying every measurable aspect of and facts about Facebook, starting with basic info like how many people are on the platform and then expanding and listing out each Facebook stat as I find them in an organized series of posts. You will find everything from average number of friends per user to users per country and everything in between. I hope you find some of these tallies as interesting and amazing as I do.
Facebook History
- Year Facebook launched: 2004 (as TheFacebook)
- Year TheFacebook was changed to Facebook: 2005
- Year News Feeds were introduced: 2006
- Year Facebook opened up to everyone over the age of 13: 2006
- Year pages were introduced: 2007
- Year that Facebook Chat launched: 2008
- Year that Facebook became the most-used social network globally: 2009
- Year that usernames were introduced: 2009
- Year the Like button was introduced: 2009
- Year that Timelines were first introduced: 2011
- Year that Facebook Chat became Facebook Messenger: 2011
- Year the Bug Bounty program launched: 2011
- Year of Facebook’s IPO: 2012
- Year the App Center launched: 2012
- Year Facebook bought Instagram: 2012
- Year Facebook joined the Fortune 500: 2013
- Year Facebook joined the S&P 500: 2013
- Year that Graph Search launched: 2013
- Year that Facebook Home launched: 2013
- Year that clickable hashtags were introduced: 2013
- Year Facebook bought WhatsApp: 2014
- Year Instant Articles launched: 2015
- Year that Reactions were introduced: 2016
- Year that Deep Text was announced: 2016
- Year Workplace was announced: 2016
- Year Facebook Spaces was announced: 2017
- Year Facebook Stories launched: 2017
Facebook Facts
 | |
| Website: | www.facebook.com |
| Birthplace: | Cambridge, MA |
| Creators: | Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes |
| Current Headquarters: | Menlo Park, CA |
| Top Executives: | CEO: Mark Zuckerberg |
| COO: Sheryl Sandberg | |
| CFO: David Wehner | |
| CTO: Mike Schroepfer | |
| Mobile Apps: | | Android |
Top Facebook Competitors:
Facebook User Statistics and Demographics
How many people use Facebook?
2.414 billion monthly active users (MAU) global
244 million users in the US and Canada
385 million users in Europe
1.003 billion users in Asia-Pacific
Last updated
Facebook daily active users (DAU):
1.587 billion Facebook users global
187 million users in US & Canada
286 million users in Europe
615 million users in Asia-Pacific
(source)
Last updated 7/24/19
How many people work for Facebook?
25,105
Source: Facebook
Last updated
Percentage of Facebook monthly users that use it daily:
Last updated 7/24/19
Percentage of all US adults over the age of 50 that use Facebook:
Last updated 4/21/18
Percentage of all US adults aged 25-49 that use Facebook:
Last updated 3/5/18
Average number of Facebook friends for women:
Last updated 1/20/16
Number of Facebook friends that the average user has in 2016:
Percentage of drivers that admit to checking Facebook while operating their vehicle:
Last updated 5/19/15
Percentage of all digital time that is spent on Facebook each day:
Last updated 4/11/18
Degrees of separation between every Facebook user:
Last updated 2/4/16
Percentage of Facebook friends that users consider to be close friends:
Last updated 1/20/16
Percentage of US Internet users, aged 14-17 (teens) that use Facebook:
Last updated 1/18/17
Percentage of US teens, ages 13-17, that use Facebook:
Percentage of US residents, ages 12-34 that use Facebook:
Percentage of US residents, ages 35-54 that use Facebook:
Percentage of US residents, age 55+ that use Facebook:
Percentage of all US social media users that use Facebook:
Last updated 1/9/15
Percentage of online US adults that use Facebook:
Last updated 3/1/18
Percentage of internet users, age 16-64, that log onto Facebook more than once a day:
Last updated 3/1/18
Facebook users in the UK:
Last updated 2/12/18
Number of Facebook users, aged 12-17, in the UK:
Last updated 2/12/18
Number of Facebook users, aged 18-24, in the UK:
Last updated 2/12/18
Number of monthly active Facebook users in Africa:
Last updated 4/6/17
Number of Facebook ‘users’ that are fake:
Last updated 5/23/19
Percentage of Facebook users that are fake:
Last updated 5/23/19
Number of people that use Facebook Groups:
Last updated 5/1/19
Percentage of Facebook users that connect with co-workers on it:
Last updated 6/24/19
Average amount of time per day that American’s spend on Facebook:
Last updated 5/28/19
Number of Facebook monthly active users in India:
Last updated 4/5/18
Number of Facebook users in Vietnam:
Last updated 7/13/17
Number of Facebook users in Hong Kong:
Last updated 9/28/16
Number of Facebook users in Thailand:
Last updated 7/13/17
Number of Facebook users in Egypt:
Last updated 2/7/17
Number of Facebook users in Algeria:
Last updated 2/7/17
Number of Facebook users in Saudi Arabia:
Last updated 2/7/17
Number of Facebook users in Iraq:
Last updated 2/7/17
Number of Facebook users in Morocco:
Last updated 2/7/17
Number of Facebook users in Indonesia:
Last updated 7/13/17
Number of Facebook users in Brazil:
Last updated 7/13/17
Number of Facebook users in Mexico:
Last updated 7/13/17
Number of Facebook users in the Philippines:
Last updated 7/13/17
Number of Facebook users in Turkey:
Last updated 7/13/17
City with the largest number of Facebook users in the world:
Bangkok (35 million users)
Percentage of news images that appear on Facebook that include images depicting just men:
Last updated 5/23/19
Percentage of news images that appear on Facebook that include images depicting just women:
Last updated 5/23/19
Facebook Revenue Statistics
Facebook Annual Revenue:
Facebook Quarterly Revenue:
- Q2 2019: $16.624 billion
- Q1 2019: $15.077 billion
- Q4 2018: $16.914 billion
- Q3 2018: $13.727 billion
- Q2 2018: $13.231 billion
- Q1 2018: $11.966 billion
- Q4 2017: $12.972 billion
- Q3 2017: $10.328 billion
- Q2 2017: $9.321 billion
- Q1 2017: $8.032 billion
- Q4 2016: $8.809 billion
- Q3 2016: $7.011 billion
- Q2 2016: $6.436 billion
- Q1 2016: $5.38 billion
- Q4 2015: $5.841 billion
- Q3 2015: $4.501 billion
- Q2 2015: $4.04 billion
- Q1 2015: $3.54 billion
- Q4 2014: $3.85 billion
- Q3 2014: $3.2 billion
- Q2 2014: $2.9 billion
- Q1 2014: $2.5 billion
- Q4 2013: $2.585 billion
- Q3 2013: $2.02 billion
Percentage of Facebook revenue that comes from the US & Canada:
48%
Last updated 7/24/19
Percentage of Facebook revenue that comes from Europe:
24.3%
Last updated 7/24/19
Percentage of Facebook revenue that comes from Asia-Pacific:
17.8%
Last updated 7/24/19
Average Facebook revenue per global user:
Last updated 7/24/19
Average Facebook revenue per user in the US and Canada:
Last updated 7/24/19
Average Facebook revenue per user in Europe:
Last updated 7/24/19
Average Facebook revenue per user in the Asia-Pacific:
Last updated 7/24/19
Size of the Facebook FTC fine in their July 2019 settlement:
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