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Facebook Worldwide (Part 1)

So just who uses facebook? Below is a table showing the demographic breakdown of facebook registrations in the USA.

The vertical axis shows age, with 13 years of age at the top, and 65 and above at the bottom. There is a separate row for each distinct age between these two limits. Female registrations are shown on the right with pink bars, and male registrations to the left with blue bars.

As mentioned in an earlier blog entry, the modal age for registrations in the USA is 20 years old, which is no surprise because of facebook's origin in colleges. Also mentioned earlier is the incredibly profilic rate of registration in the 65 and above age bracket in the US. Close to one in eight new accounts being registered in the US are from people in this bracket.

#	MALE		FEMALE	#
397,580		13		472,000
1,018,780		14		1,237,020
1,343,420		15		1,634,140
1,544,940		16		1,870,900
1,776,420		17		2,151,160
2,211,600		18		2,536,860
2,591,340		19		2,800,760
2,704,300		20		2,863,220
2,115,580		21		2,284,060
1,990,080		22		2,161,300
1,857,060		23		2,059,780
1,826,500		24		2,029,740
1,810,460		25		2,020,700
1,636,480		26		1,875,140
1,600,920		27		1,883,300
1,573,880		28		1,868,140
1,560,120		29		1,838,940
1,562,860		30		1,820,000
1,273,700		31		1,576,000
1,196,980		32		1,505,700
1,180,100		33		1,477,120
1,106,200		34		1,389,540
1,112,980		35		1,385,900
1,029,540		36		1,301,800
1,008,300		37		1,283,760
1,023,880		38		1,304,240
1,094,520		39		1,392,880
1,104,800		40		1,385,120
957,620		41		1,234,800
856,940		42		1,140,560
821,460		43		1,109,240
799,080		44		1,092,020
790,280		45		1,103,060
752,200		46		1,082,880
720,780		47		1,053,800
688,240		48		1,031,420
681,420		49		1,033,100
658,040		50		1,008,080
577,260		51		924,960
546,720		52		898,480
530,500		53		873,500
491,160		54		817,180
469,400		55		780,500
436,820		56		732,180
408,640		57		689,540
385,320		58		645,700
368,040		59		611,880
350,540		60		572,300
307,020		61		512,220
291,920		62		481,500
313,400		63		499,560
214,620		64		342,320
2,072,260		65+		2,880,400
	Total: 57,743,000 (44.31%)		Total: 72,560,400 (55.69%)

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Facebook around the World

At the time this article was written, facebook allows registrations from 212 'countries'. The top 100 are shown below in a table, ordered in descending order of size. Interestingly, the country with the smallest facebook registrations is not the Holy See (Vatican City State), but is infact Nauru which, as trivia buffs know, is the World's smallest island nation, covering just 8.1 sq miles. Check it out on Wikipedia.

I've broken out the number of males and females, and also added a bar on the right to show the relative size of each region.

Currently, the US dominates facebook accounts, with 26% of all accounts registered in that country. The top 25 countries account for 81% of all registrations, and below Thailand no single country contributes more than 1% to the registation numbers.

#	ISO	Country	Male	Female	Total
1	US	UNITED STATES	57,742,980	72,559,980	130,302,960
2	ID	INDONESIA	16,200,160	11,016,320	27,216,480
3	GB	UNITED KINGDOM	13,005,320	13,944,760	26,950,080
4	TR	TURKEY	14,432,520	8,054,980	22,487,500
5	FR	FRANCE	9,148,020	9,847,740	18,995,760
6	IT	ITALY	9,005,780	7,736,820	16,742,600
7	PH	PHILIPPINES	7,675,420	8,466,480	16,141,900
8	CA	CANADA	7,126,580	8,343,060	15,469,640
9	MX	MEXICO	7,306,080	7,436,480	14,742,560
10	IN	INDIA	9,082,660	3,914,100	12,996,760
11	AR	ARGENTINA	5,373,760	5,862,600	11,236,360
12	ES	SPAIN	5,215,260	5,558,080	10,773,340
13	DE	GERMANY	5,328,400	5,366,840	10,695,240
14	CO	COLOMBIA	5,210,720	5,468,620	10,679,340
15	AU	AUSTRALIA	4,259,980	4,984,020	9,244,000
16	MY	MALAYSIA	4,208,300	3,856,320	8,064,620
17	CL	CHILE	3,451,000	3,714,280	7,165,280
18	VE	VENEZUELA, BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF	3,259,480	3,738,720	6,998,200
19	TW	TAIWAN, PROVINCE OF CHINA	3,471,420	3,520,620	6,992,040
20	BR	BRAZIL	2,758,420	3,298,920	6,057,340
21	TH	THAILAND	2,253,120	2,832,340	5,085,460
22	EG	EGYPT	2,423,120	1,528,320	3,951,440
23	SE	SWEDEN	1,846,740	1,989,540	3,836,280
24	BE	BELGIUM	1,770,080	1,745,480	3,515,560
25	HK	HONG KONG	1,630,500	1,776,460	3,406,960
26	PL	POLAND	1,396,900	1,797,320	3,194,220
27	ZA	SOUTH AFRICA	1,527,280	1,579,140	3,106,420
28	IL	ISRAEL	1,671,660	1,433,060	3,104,720
29	PE	PERU	1,570,380	1,435,700	3,006,080
30	GR	GREECE	1,602,760	1,262,600	2,865,360
31	CZ	CZECH REPUBLIC	1,355,420	1,418,980	2,774,400
32	NL	NETHERLANDS	1,377,200	1,319,600	2,696,800
33	PT	PORTUGAL	1,317,120	1,335,060	2,652,180
34	SA	SAUDI ARABIA	1,730,880	791,960	2,522,840
35	DK	DENMARK	1,213,420	1,298,260	2,511,680
36	PK	PAKISTAN	1,624,380	799,720	2,424,100
37	SG	SINGAPORE	1,141,280	1,143,760	2,285,040
38	NO	NORWAY	1,106,140	1,135,640	2,241,780
39	CH	SWITZERLAND	1,125,180	1,074,720	2,199,900
40	RS	SERBIA	1,216,960	982,340	2,199,300
41	AT	AUSTRIA	1,046,680	1,031,100	2,077,780
42	MA	MOROCCO	1,251,960	801,760	2,053,720
43	FI	FINLAND	845,460	975,180	1,820,640
44	HU	HUNGARY	792,320	950,580	1,742,900
45	NZ	NEW ZEALAND	752,620	956,540	1,709,160
46	NG	NIGERIA	1,134,680	563,000	1,697,680
47	AE	UNITED ARAB EMIRATES	1,082,280	577,040	1,659,320
48	IE	IRELAND	757,660	900,080	1,657,740
49	TN	TUNISIA	981,540	674,880	1,656,420
50	KR	KOREA, REPUBLIC OF (SOUTH)	863,040	787,540	1,650,580
51	RO	ROMANIA	748,240	862,380	1,610,620
52	BG	BULGARIA	724,860	846,280	1,571,140
53	RU	RUSSIAN FEDERATION	666,660	898,580	1,565,240
54	SK	SLOVAKIA	729,500	797,640	1,527,140
55	EC	ECUADOR	747,120	734,020	1,481,140
56	JP	JAPAN	620,740	692,820	1,313,560
57	HR	CROATIA	617,940	593,420	1,211,360
58	PR	PUERTO RICO	506,380	678,880	1,185,260
59	VN	VIET NAM	575,200	593,740	1,168,940
60	DZ	ALGERIA	735,980	339,280	1,075,260
61	DO	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC	517,180	548,420	1,065,600
62	JO	JORDAN	601,680	433,920	1,035,600
63	BD	BANGLADESH	732,000	253,120	985,120
64	LB	LEBANON	528,360	436,900	965,260
65	UY	URUGUAY	417,580	478,300	895,880
66	CR	COSTA RICA	451,500	437,720	889,220
67	BA	BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA	460,580	399,220	859,800
68	AL	ALBANIA	567,760	284,540	852,300
69	KE	KENYA	532,900	318,820	851,720
70	GT	GUATEMALA	403,220	348,640	751,860
71	BO	BOLIVIA, PLURINATIONAL STATE OF	413,080	338,600	751,680
72	MK	MACEDONIA, THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF	424,800	308,080	732,880
73	LT	LITHUANIA	305,880	386,160	692,040
74	LK	SRI LANKA	419,440	235,160	654,600
75	GH	GHANA	417,420	195,640	613,060
76	SI	SLOVENIA	296,360	287,200	583,560
77	PA	PANAMA	278,620	301,020	579,640
78	NP	NEPAL	392,000	175,080	567,080
79	KW	KUWAIT	332,760	200,640	533,400
80	UA	UKRAINE	239,000	277,340	516,340
81	SV	EL SALVADOR	244,780	221,780	466,560
82	QA	QATAR	279,780	123,380	403,160
83	HN	HONDURAS	175,480	188,440	363,920
84	GE	GEORGIA	157,840	204,000	361,840
85	TT	TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO	167,260	190,680	357,940
86	JM	JAMAICA	159,860	195,380	355,240
87	SN	SENEGAL	197,720	98,520	296,240
88	PY	PARAGUAY	145,860	149,680	295,540
89	CY	CYPRUS	151,560	140,080	291,640
90	IQ	IRAQ	192,660	73,380	266,040
91	EE	ESTONIA	106,220	144,600	250,820
92	BH	BAHRAIN	131,620	98,520	230,140
93	NI	NICARAGUA	106,260	112,880	219,140
94	MU	MAURITIUS	120,440	97,740	218,180
95	MO	MACAO	103,280	114,500	217,780
96	AZ	AZERBAIJAN	121,900	73,540	195,440
97	UG	UGANDA	122,320	69,220	191,540
98	IS	ICELAND	88,020	101,240	189,260
99	LY	LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA	123,640	55,740	179,380
100	CM	CAMEROON	108,580	66,020	174,600

Different Countries

Here's a slightly more manageable view of the demographic profile for the USA. It's the same data as the large table at the top of this page (sans animated bug). Let's look at a few other countries to see how different their profiles are.

Countries that are similar in culture to the US have similarly shaped demoraphic profile curves. These curves look like 'inverted pears'.

Whilst these curves are very similar, no country has quite a many 65 and older women as the US.

Currently, New Zealand has a slightly higher percentage of female accounts than the US (which is already quite high), whilst Canada, Australia and the UK have fewer, but are still female biased.

Here are a random selection of European countries: