Facebook Stats
According to Facebook:
- Worldwide, there are over 1.5 billion active Facebook users
- Canadians are the most active Facebook users in the world.
- There are more than 19 million Facebook users in Canada
- More than 14 million Canadians check their Facebook news feed every day
- More than half of all Canadians check Facebook once per month.
- 9.4 million Canadians use Facebook on a mobile devices such as a tablet or a smartphone.
According to Techvibes:
- The average Canadian Facebook users spends 7 hours per month on Facebook
- Canadians have 190 Facebook friends on average (global average is 130).
- Ontario has 6.4 million active users, with Quebec in third with 3.1 million and B.C. in third with 2.1 million. The Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut combined count for just over 55,000. Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia combine for roughly the same as Alberta—1.7 million
- Canadians share a total over nearly 1.5 billion pieces of content monthly.
According to Zephoria:
- 4.5 billion likes are generated daily as of May 2013
- 728 million people log onto Facebook daily
- There are 874 million mobile active users which is a 45 percent increase from 2012
- Five new profiles are created every second
- Facebook users are 53% female and 47% male
- Highest traffic occurs mid-week between 1 to 3 pm
- On Thursdays and Fridays, engagement is 18% higher
- Photo uploads total 300 million per day
- Average time spent per Facebook visit is 20 minutes
- Every 60 seconds on Facebook: 510 comments are posted, 293,000 statuses are updated, and 136,000 photos are uploaded
- 4.75 billion pieces of content shared daily as of May 2013 which is a 94 percent increase from August 2012
- 50% of 18-24 year-olds go on Facebook when they wake up
- 16 Million local business pages have been created as of May 2013
- 7.5 million promoted posts have been made from June 2012 to May 2013
- 95% of college students access Facebook on their phone
Also check out this Facebook infographic.