Users On Facebook - Facebook's Growth

Users On Facebook - The world's largest social network is now also larger: Facebook reported 2.4 billion month-to-month active individuals (MAU) in Q1, per its profits released Wednesday.

That's up 2.5% from 2.3 billion in Q4 2018, and also up 8.2% year-over-year (YoY) from 2.2 billion in Q1 2018. Likewise, Facebook grew its daily energetic individuals (DAU) to 1.56 billion, up 2.7% from last quarter as well as up 7.8% YoY.

Users On Facebook

Users On Facebook


In general, Facebook now flaunts 2.7 billion monthly individuals across its family members of applications. That consists of Carrier, WhatsApp, Instagram, as well as core Facebook, with 2.1 billion of those people accessing one of the apps every day.

Below's a review of Facebook's customer development by region:

  • United States & Canada. Facebook included 1 million MAU in the quarter, amounting to 243 million in the region. DAU were level with Q4 2018 at 186 million.

  • Europe. Facebook included 3 million MAU (to 384 million) and also grew DAU by 4 million (to 286 million).

  • Asia-Pacific (APAC). Facebook added 34 million MAU (to 981 million) and also 33 million DAU (to 600 million).

  • Relax of World (ROW). Facebook added 18 million MAU (to 768 million), with DAU up by 12 million (to 490 million).


A lot of Facebook's individual development is originating from areas outside of the US, Canada, and also Europe, although it's still adding individuals in those areas. If you ask United States teenagers, whose social media preferences can be taken into consideration a bellwether, Facebook isn't even their 2nd preferred social platform. As of 2019, teenagers like Snapchat and Instagram to Facebook by a slim chance, according to Piper Jaffray.

As well as in 2018, 51% of US teenagers ages 13-17 stated they made use of Facebook, below 71% in 2015, per Bench. Yet in spite of the decreasing usage among United States teenagers, core Facebook remains to include individuals worldwide-- particularly in non-Western areas. In Q1, the large majority of Facebook's new individuals came from APAC and also ROW areas, as an example.

As Well As while Gen Z declares Facebook to be irrelevant, older generations in the United States continue to be gotten in: Facebook remains very popular amongst United States grownups ages 25-29 (84% claim they utilize it) and also 30-49 (79%), per Pew. That can make up the social network's steady development in fully grown Western markets.

Users are likely ending up being progressively inured to Facebook's continuous state of scandal. In the initial three months of 2019 alone Facebook has actually had a number of significant privacy occurrences-- inadvertently dripping over a million Instagram individual's emails, difficulty curbingwhite supremacist web content, a pending $3 to $5 billion penalty from the FTC.

As well as over the last couple of years, they've dealt with scandals ranging from political election disturbance to massive breaches of customer personal privacy. Still, these detractions seems to matter much less as well as less to customers, and also just as Facebook investors stay undeterred, users might be expanding numb to the continuous turmoil also.

Additionally, Facebook may merely be so entrenched that habitual customers, whether they appreciate privacy rumors, feel they can not stop the site, as TechCrunch's Josh Constine noted.