- As of August 2017, the total population is 7.5 billion people.
- The total number of people using the internet is 3.8 billion.
- The total number of people who are active social media users is 3 billion.
- Facebook has 2.01 billion monthly active users (7/26/17)
- Facebook has 1.32 billion daily active users on desktop. (7/27/17)
- Facebook has 1.57 billion daily active users on mobile. (6/24/17)
- ESTIMATED NUMBER OF FACEBOOK USERS IN THE U.S. BY 2018: 169.2 million users.
Demographics:
- Facebook users are 53% female and 47% male.
- 56% of online Seniors aged 65+ are on Facebook and 63% are between age 50-64.
- 87% of online users of age 18-29 are on Facebook.
- 74% college graduates are on Facebook.
- 72% of online users of income more than $75K are on Facebook.
- 82 percent of 18 to 29-year-olds online in the U.S. use Facebook.
- 79 percent of 30 to 49-year-olds online in the U.S. use Facebook.
- 56 percent of U.S. online users ages 65 and up use Facebook.
Fun Facts:
- More than 40 million small businesses have active pages pages.
- The Facebook like button has been pressed 1.13 trillion times.
- As of January 2016, 100 million hours of video was watched on Facebook Daily.
- The avg. time spent on Facebook/visit is 20 minutes making the average monthly time spent 600 hours.
- More than 83% of daily active users are outside the US and Canada the number has grown from 75% in previous year which goes on to show the increased growth in rest of the world.
- Percent of 18-34 year old who check Facebook when they wake up is 48%.
- Average number of pages, groups, and events a user is connected to is 80.
- 350 Million photos are uploaded every day, with 14.58 million photo uploads per hour, 243,000 photo uploads per minute, and 4,000 photo uploads per second.
- Every 20 Minutes, 1 million links are shared, 20 million friend requests are sent, and 3 million messages are sent.
- 55 million status updates are made every day.
- Facebook is available in 101 languages with over 300,000 users helping in translation.