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250 Amazing Facebook Statistics and Facts for 2020 | By the Numbers

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Here are a bunch of amazing Facebook statistics, facts, history and demographics that illustrate just how popular the social network is in 2020 and how much it is still growing.

Facebook Statistics and Facts

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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.

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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

Facebook
Facebook Statistics 2019
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?

2.498 billion monthly active users (MAU) global

248 million users in the US and Canada

394 million users in Europe

1.038 billion users in Asia-Pacific

Source

Last updated

Facebook daily active users (DAU):

1.657 billion Facebook users global

190 million users in US & Canada

294 million users in Europe

641 million users in Asia-Pacific

Source

Last updated

how many people use facebook 2019

How many people work for Facebook?

25,105

Source: Facebook

Last updated

Percentage of Facebook monthly users that use it daily:

66%

Last updated 7/24/19

Percentage of all US adults over the age of 50 that use Facebook:

50%

Last updated 4/21/18

Percentage of all US adults aged 25-49 that use Facebook:

80%

Last updated 3/5/18

Average number of Facebook friends for women:

166

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:

27%

Last updated 5/19/15

Percentage of all digital time that is spent on Facebook each day:

3%

Last updated 4/11/18

Degrees of separation between every Facebook user:

57

Last updated 2/4/16

Percentage of Facebook friends that users consider to be close friends:

28%

Last updated 1/20/16

Percentage of US Internet users, aged 14-17 (teens) that use Facebook:

65%

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:

90%

Last updated 1/9/15

Percentage of online US adults that use Facebook:

68%

Last updated 3/1/18

Percentage of internet users, age 16-64, that log onto Facebook more than once a day:

23%

Last updated 3/1/18

Number of Facebook users, aged 12-17, in the UK:

2 million

Last updated 2/12/18

Number of Facebook users, aged 18-24, in the UK:

5 million

Last updated 2/12/18

Number of monthly active Facebook users in Africa:

170 million

Last updated 4/6/17

Number of Facebook ‘users’ that are fake:

120 million

Last updated 5/23/19

Percentage of Facebook users that are fake:

5%

Last updated 5/23/19

Number of people that use Facebook Groups: 

1 billion

Last updated 5/1/19

Percentage of Facebook users that connect with co-workers on it:

87%

Last updated 6/24/19

Average amount of time per day that American’s spend on Facebook:

38 minutes per day

Last updated 5/28/19

Number of Facebook users by geography:

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:

53%

Last updated 5/23/19

Percentage of news images that appear on Facebook that include images depicting just women:

22%

Last updated 5/23/19

Lines of code for Facebook:

100 million lines of code

Last updated 8/15/19

Facebook Revenue Statistics

    Facebook Annual Revenue:Facebook Revenue 2014-2018

    Facebook Quarterly Revenue:Facebook Revenue 2014-2018

    Facebook net income (quarterly):

    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:

    • Q4 2019: $8.52
    • Q3 2019: $7.26
    • Q2 2019: $7.05
    • Q1 2019: $6.42
    • Q4 2019: $7.37

    (source)

    Average Facebook revenue per user in the US and Canada:

    • Q4 2019: $41.41
    • Q3 2019: $34.55
    • Q2 2019: $33.27
    • Q1 2019: $30.12
    • Q4 2019: $34.86

    (source)

    Average Facebook revenue per user in Europe:

    • Q4 2019: $13.21
    • Q3 2019: $10.68
    • Q2 2019: $10.70
    • Q1 2019: $9.55
    • Q4 2019: $10.98

    (source)

    Average Facebook revenue per user in the Asia-Pacific:

    • Q4 2019: $3.57
    • Q3 2019: $3.24
    • Q2 2019: $3.04
    • Q1 2019: $2.78
    • Q4 2019: $2.96

    (source)

    Size of the Facebook FTC fine in their July 2019 settlement:

    $5 billion

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