Active Facebook Users By Country

tr3v [2009-04-19 01:59 PM]

It would be interesting to see these stats in proportion to each country's population.

Bjorn [2009-04-19 08:13 PM]

Well, right away, I can say that Iceland's 150K users are just under half of the population. About 98% of 20-30 year olds have a Facebook account, and that stat was some months ago.

BobCFC [2009-04-20 02:17 AM]

lol... 18 million active users in the UK with a population of 60 million

and yet only 2m in Germany which has about 80m population?

Tim Kremer [2009-04-20 02:29 AM]

I'd like to see some stats on the number of iPhone users on Facebook..

What proportion of iPhone users use facebook?
etc.

Thanks Ben!

Katrin Mathis [2009-04-20 04:16 AM]

I've put the numbers in proportion to total population: http://thesis.katrin-mathis.de

There you can also find an overview of Facebook's position in the different European countries. The relative low share in Germany for example can be explained by the fact that Facebook is only number 4 social network in Germany.

LED [2009-04-20 04:42 AM]

I haven´t know that Africa as soon catch in terms of Facebook. Even faster than the Asians. In a few years is there the boom assured which Asian now have.

Daryl [2009-04-20 07:01 AM]

Any chance of making the data sets availalbe for everyone to take a kick at ?

Would love to do some stats work on these for my own edification and interest.

Albert [2009-04-20 09:09 AM]

Ben, how do you define active users?

KinConsult [2009-04-20 09:52 AM]

What I love is the rate of growth in Africa. Point to note Sub Sahara Africa has no broadband internet access and cost of internet is substantially very high. Point to note broadband is scheduled to launch by mid 2009 that should have some effect. From what I have seen with the rate of mobile telephony the next technolgy revolution should be the high internet usage adoption in the region.

Ajeet [2009-04-20 10:02 AM]

Interesting to note the inverse relationship between the number of active users and the rate of change.

Lucky1173 [2009-04-20 10:05 AM]

Funny, how a small country like Belgium can have more users than Germany in terms of population. Well looking closely, if you combine Belgium, Sweden, and Denmark's population, it still wouldn't equal to Germany's 80+ million people.

leonardc [2009-04-20 10:38 AM]

@BobCFC
"lol... 18 million active users in the UK with a population of 60 million and yet only 2m in Germany which has about 80m population?"

I know Bob, what impoverished lives we lead here in Germany; wasting our time reading books, drinking beer, going to restaurants, having sex, watching football... I hope assbook becomes super popular here so I can live a fulfilled life at last.

Seba [2009-04-20 10:48 AM]

I'm surprised about Facebook's penetration in SouthAmerica considering the region has poor connections compared to Asia.

Simon Hamer [2009-04-20 10:56 AM]

I think it is clear to see the effect of Xing on Facebook territory. Xing has a german bias. Interesting stats thanks.
Simon Hamer
Social Media Manager

Elizabeth [2009-04-20 10:57 AM]

I don't see Iceland in this list - though I know that much of its population uses FB! (Of course, there isn't a large pop. to start with...)

Thoralf [2009-04-20 12:48 PM]

As someone else already stated: Facebook is not that relevant in Germany. There are a couple of local social networks that have a much bigger user base (Studivz, wer-kennt-wen, etc.)

Studivz alone has more than 13 mio. registered users.

PETRA [2009-04-21 02:11 AM]

In Croatia there is 640 000 users.That is great because there is only 4 400 000 peoples who live there.Pozzz iz HRVATSKE!!!

Peter [2009-04-21 08:45 AM]

There is 350 000 users in Slovakia! Great in comparison with Poland :) They have at least 10x more citizens at all. Yuppii

greg [2009-05-14 11:13 PM]

@Peter
I don't know where this data comes from, but there are over 1 mln FB users in Poland according to traffic monitoring research. but probably all those figures are miscalculated.

Eirik Norman Hansen [2009-05-23 02:48 PM]

Actually a little amazed to se that Norway have almost 2 mill. user with a population just above 4.5 mill. That almost half of us on facebook - cool or scary :-)

Tansel ARAYICI [2009-05-27 12:36 PM]

WHERE IS THE TURKEY ? Turkey has a largest user of facebook on EUROPE ! (http://www.krustyfries.com/2008/12/19/top-10-facebook-countries-top-australian-facebook-users-2008/ )

phico [2009-08-07 11:42 AM]

up to 97% in Lithuania?! I definitely can confirm that when glimpsing on my network over there. It booms! FUY: population: nearly 3,5 million. One of the leading countries in telecom (as i was told). Nearly free sms and internet and Highly active youngsters! Activity in Belgium seems to be accurate and confirms the numbers we had so far.
All best

Hakan [2009-12-18 05:24 AM]

Dear author, Turkey is not a middle eastern country. It is a European country with its European Union membership pending. So you should have placed Turkey to Europe list which is the second biggest facebook group after UK.

This is a big mistake and considering your geographical knowledge I guess you're American :)

cheers,
Hakan