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41 Up-to-Date Facebook Facts and Stats

Here’s 40 up-to-date statistics that will bring you up to speed:

Userbase:
1 . Facebook has over 1.393 billion monthly active users.

2 . The country with the most active Facebook users is Canada

3 . 890 million people log into Facebook daily.

4 . There are 157 million daily users in the US and Canada.

5 . There’s a whopping 253 million daily active users in Asia. (Impressive, considering that Facebook is banned in China.)

6 . There are over 217 million active daily users in Europe.

7 . 72% percent of adults online visit Facebook at least once a month.

8 . The average time spent on Facebook per user per day is 21 minutes.

Connections:
9 . The Median number of Facebook friends for Millennials is 250.

10 . The Median number of Facebook friends for GenX is 200.

11 . The Median number of Facebook friends for Younger Boomers is 98.

12 . The Median number of Facebook friends for Older Boomers is 50.

13 . The Average number of Facebook friends for US females is 250.

14 . 70 percent of teens say that they are friends with their parents on Facebook.

Data:
15 . Facebook stores more than 300 petabytes of user data. (To put that in context, a single petabyte made up of average- length songs would require 2000 years to play back to back…)

16 . In total there have been 1.13 trillion likes on Facebook since its launch in 2004.

17 . There are 4.5 billion Facebook likes every day.

18 . Each minute there are 3,125,000 new likes.

19 . There are 17 billion location-tagged Facebook posts today.

20 . The total number of uploaded Facebook photos is 250 billion.

21 . On average 350 million photos are uploaded daily to Facebook.

22 . 243,055 new photos are uploaded to Facebook every minute.

23 . There are 127 photos uploaded on average per Facebook user.

24 . There are 1,500 average number of posts that are eligible to appear in a Facebook user’s feed each day.

25 . On average, there are 4.75 billion items shared by Facebook users each day.

26 . 10 billion Facebook messages are sent each day.

User Interactions:
27 . 66% percent of teenage girls claim to have been bullied on Facebook.

28 . Users see a 225% increase in average volume of Facebook post interactions on the day a user changes their relationship status.

29 . 28% Percent of newlyweds change their Facebook status within hours of getting married.

30 . There are 100,000 new friend requests made on Facebook every minute.

31 . High school friends are the most common type of Facebook friend to get unfriended.

32 . Inappropriate or polarizing posts is the most common reason for unfriending someone on Facebook?

33 . 19.4% percent of Americans cannot access Facebook in the workplace.

34 . 29.29% percent of Americans use Facebook during the work day.

35 . 30% of all US senior citizens currently use Facebook.

36 . 87% percentage of the Class of 2014 (high school) say that they “still” use Facebook.

Economic Impact:
37 . The reported global economic impact of Facebook in 2014 was $227 billion.

38 . Facebook currently employees 9,199 people.

39 . Its estimated that Facebook indirectly created 4.5 million jobs in 2014.

40 . Facebook’s (currency neutral) revenue rose by 49% in the first quarter of 2015.

41 . During the first quarter of 2015, Facebook’s (currency neutral) advertising revenues grew 55%.