How Many People are On Facebook now
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Ega Wahyudi
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Wednesday, September 4, 2019
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Total Facebook Users
How Many People are On Facebook now
This year, 169.5 million people in the US-- or majority of the population-- will use Facebook, a 0.9% increase from 2017, according to our estimates.
By the end of the forecasting duration (2022 ), we expect Facebook's user base to expand to 176.3 million. That's thanks, in big component, to older demographics.
How Old Are Facebook Users?
While younger users are leaving Facebook at an also much faster speed than we formerly anticipated, older age are accessing the social system a lot more-- specifically the 55-to-64 as well as 65-plus age groups.
" Each of those age groups will certainly add about 1 million brand-new users in 2018, which is significant thinking about Facebook's customer base overall will increase by only 1.6 million," said eMarketer senior forecasting analyst Chris Bendtsen. "What this means is that Facebook is including a lot more brand-new older individuals than it's shedding more youthful ones."
In general, Facebook's use amongst 55- to 64-year-olds will boost by 4.9% in 2018. As well as usage amongst those 65 as well as older is expected to increase by 6.0%.
At the same time, Facebook's use amongst those 11 and also younger will certainly decrease 9.3%, while those in the 12-to-17 age group and also those in the 18-to-24 age group will decrease by 5.6% and 4.5%, respectively.
Teenagers might be changing from Facebook, yet it's still the No. 1 social media network amongst millennials, Gen Xers and boomers.
Actually, child boomers favor Facebook over various other social applications, like Pinterest, Instagram and also particularly Snapchat. This year, we anticipate 31.9 million people in that friend to utilize Facebook.
" Facebook is still performing well in these older age," stated eMarketer primary expert Debra Aho Williamson. "It's true that Instagram is gaining strength amongst those 35 and also older, yet Facebook stays their platform of choice."
" It's where their family and friends are, and its features know and also risk-free," she included. "Despite Facebook's extensively publicized problems with data privacy, hacking and phony news, the majority of customers in these age groups are still utilizing it."