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Facebook Statistics (Sep 2012)

Facebook Statistics
Facebook statistics
  • Each day Facebook users spend 10.5 billion minutes (almost 20,000 years) online on the social network
  • Australians spend 26 minutes, 27 seconds on Facebook each day, New Zealand 30m31s, Singapore 38m46s, United Kingdom 26m27s, France 21m53s, United States 20m46s, India 20m21s, Brazil 18m19s
  • Only 50% of Facebook users have more than 100 friends (source: AllTwitter)
  • There are 955 million active users on Facebook that spend an average of six hours and 35 minutes per month on the network (desktop only)
  • An average of 3.2 billion likes and comments are posted every day
  • Facebook posted a 67 percent year-over-year mobile growth rate (543 million monthly active users on mobile).
  • The 6:35 per month spent on Facebook is nearly double the time (3:20) spent on Google.
  • 58% of users return to the site daily.
  • In an analysis of more than 60 Facebook marketing campaigns, 49 percent reported areturn on investment of more than five times, while 70 percent had a return on investment greater than three times. (source: AllFacebook)
Global Market Unique Audience Active Reach
Brazil 38,138,000 76.7%
Italy 21,270,000 70.5%
Spain 15,628,000 67.0%
France 28,335,000 66.9%
United Kingdom 25,737,000 63.9%
Germany 24,508,000 54.6%
Japan 14,877,000 24.4%
Switzerland* 1,985,000 50.3%
New Zealand** 2,672,000 79.8%
Taiwan** 11,068,000 77.9%
United States** 152,763,000 69.6%
Australia** 11,010,000 68.4%
Read as: 38.1 million Brazilians visited Facebook during March 2012, about 76.7% of those who were active online that month from Home/Work computers in the market.
* Online measurement in Switzerland is from Home computers only.
** New Zealand, Taiwan, the U.S., and Australia use Hybrid measurement, which includes sources in addition to home/work computers.
Source: Nielsen


  • In any given week, less than 0.5% of Facebook fans engage with the brand they are fans of. (Source: Marketing Science)
  • 20% of Facebook users have purchased something because of ads or comments they saw there. (Source: Ipsos)
  • We are finding that 50 percent of smartphones are actually connecting to Facebook every hour of every day. (Source: AllFacebook)
  • Facebook has 232 million users in Europe, 222 million in North America, and 219 million users Asia. (Source: AllTwitter)
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