Facebook Demographics and Growth by Country
O’Reilly Radar recently published an update of Facebook demographics - the number of users by country and region, along with growth rates for some regions and countries. Over the last month, the fastest growing regions were in Latin America:
Looking closely at the top 30 countries, a few European countries have grown more than ten percent over the last four weeks (France, Spain, Germany, Italy), with France having the most number of users (approx. 2.5 million). Skyrock remains the largest social network in France. Norway saw a decline but is still home to more than a million Facebook users. O’Reilly will continue to track how Facebook is doing vis-à-vis other leading regional social web sites and whether their disputes with other companies affect their growth rates.
As far as recent trends in the Facebook app platform O’Reilly has detailed reports on the subject. The number of published apps continues to grow steadily (to over 32K) but total usage remains flat. Besides the fact that the top 10% of apps account for 98% of total usage, aspiring Facebook app developers should know that only about 6% of apps average at least 500 active users per day.
Finally, as noted in a previous post on their site, the most popular applications on the Myspace platform continue to account for slightly less users than their Facebook counterparts.
Source: http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/07/facebook-growth-by-country-and.html
