[Update: before you get too far into these numbers, you might like to check out this updated post, which gives a more accurate breakdown of genders – the country totals remain the same]
Out of interest I went through the Facebook ad platform to pull together some stats on relative numbers of members from each country. Not surprisingly, the US represents over 40% of the total membership at just over 18 million. Some surprises though (at least to me), with Turkey in 5th place.
There’s quite a heavy bias to the ladies too, with female members making up just over 63% of the total population.
I’m not able to see what criteria FB uses to present these numbers, so these may be members with just a basic profile, or those who have also filled in some additional personal details too.
Full picture is below. Click on the image to open up so that you can see all the data.
[update – see my comment in the comments too 🙂 ]
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Where’s the Philippines?
Finland is missing from the list for some reason, I believe there are hundreds of thousands of user here.
Otherwise, nice work.
Hi,
the Facebook ad utility is a nice source for numbers…
A question – your figures does not counter for the individuals without a defined gender. When I looked at the Facebook demographics in Sweden I found a fairy large number of profiles without a defined gender (see the last graph in my post http://thekillerattitude.com/2007/10/facebook-statistics-in-sweden.html)
Did you look into this aspect?
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Some interesting feedback on this exercise – I should probably clarify some points:
– the countries on this list make up the countries available to target via the FB advertising platform. So, any missing countries have either less defined members than the lowest on this list, or are not present due to legal or other commercial arrangements. I couldn’t tell which
– there seemed to be no way by this method of allowing for people with no defined gender (on Facebook!). This would skew the number of course. There’s a suggestion that males are less likely to mark their gender. I can’t confirm or deny that that is generally true. I didn’t actually realise that was optional on FB.
– this was just an interesting exercise for the reader, so please don’t try and divine too much into the numbers. We all know how statistics can be 🙂
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How you get that list?????
I am highly suspicious of how Facebook ‘gathers’ members and by extension ‘statistics’…. see our post, ‘Facebook vs. WordPress’….As for ‘women’ dominating the percentages over there, well, Facebook and/or WordPress ain’t no rock’em sock’em techie ‘video game’ boyos… It seems only a matter of time, by the way, before WordPress also succumbs to a litany of ads and/or corporate overtures, I mean, WHY would people BOTHER to create/promote this kind of interactive socially engaging platform UNLESS there was some sort of dough in it for them LONG TERM? Communicative ‘altruism’ is a myth in this ‘infopreneur’ age …. Cheers, c
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Genius idea there, I wish I thought of that
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Interesting. But I am astounded that apparently 9% of the population of Australia are on Facebook. I guess in terms of percentage of population, the UK is about the same, the US a bit less. Don’t know the pop. of Canada. But that’s huge, considering that few had heard of Facebook just a year ago.
I believe that the percentage for Canada is even higher. It’s hard to tell though how many accounts are in use vs fake/marketing/spam/test accounts. Would be v.interesting to look at the active accounts, but their visitor numbers are impressive nonetheless.
Lair….. you think Pakistan only has 118K users… do your maths correctly… please we spend too much time on facebook and need to know the exact stats….
Wow! 6.6 million Canadians? That’s more than 1 in 5!
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@Salkay – yes, you are right. There are actually 412million Facebook users in Pakistan. Given it’s clearly a matter of utmost urgency I must come clean and confess to pulling the 118k number from my bottom … *rolls eyes*
The numbers come from the FB advertising platform .. I make no claims as to their accuracy.
Almost 823,000 norwegians, thats 17,% of the whole population! We’re talking kids, elderly, disabled and so on.
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Good job… But your figures are way off the line… Try changing the age lmits from any to any…. You’d be surprised…. US facebook for example comes up with more than 22 million people meaning that there are nearly 6 million underage users on Facebook
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Great stats is a good jobs. 😉 What tool do u use for this?
One of the weird things with this data is that if you look at the Facebook sex ratio compared to national sex ratio, India is a good example, they are inverse.
Any yes, 23% of Canadians are Facebook users.
I couldn’t help but map this. Enjoy
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