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Facebook is used? Happy to help
Statistics from Facebook tell us which countries it has made the
greatest inroads into - and which it hasn't. Presented as a map for
you
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You want to know which countries Facebook has made the greatest inroads into? Happy
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With data from Nick Burcher, plus some data about the world population (thanks,
Wikipedia), plus a little bit of SQL, plus OpenHeatMap, we've got an interactive map
you can play with to see where Facebook is all-conquering - specifically, which countries
it has the largest (and sometimes smallest) number of the population signed up for, in
hitting its 500 million user mark.

So here's the map. (Note: can be slow to load.)

And below is the data, as a handy table - country, Facebook users, population, and
percentage penetration.

If you have more data about countries that aren't on this list then please add them in the
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Data summary
Facebook penetration by country
country Facebook users (July 2010) population Percentage penetration
Hong Kong 3408240 7026400 48.51
Canada 15497900 34077000 45.48
United Kingdom 26543600 62041708 42.78
United States 125881220 309114000 40.72
Chile 6944540 17063000 40.7
Sweden 3798020 9349059 40.62
Australia 9009660 22234000 40.52
Israel 3006460 7531900 39.92
Ireland 1597000 4459300 35.81
Belgium 3505920 10827519 32.38
Turkey 22552540 72561312 31.08
Taiwan 6745160 23131093 29.16
France 18942220 65447374 28.94
Bahrain 226480 791000 28.63
Slovenia 582000 2056710 28.3
Qatar 396860 1409000 28.17
Italy 16647260 60325805 27.6
Slovakia 1481000 5424925 27.3
Croatia 1192160 4435056 26.88
Argentina 10542040 40134425 26.27
Malaysia 7317520 28306700 25.85
Greece 2838700 11306183 25.11
Austria 2084840 8372930 24.9
Venezuela 6686300 28749000 23.26
Spain 10610080 46030109 23.05
Lebanon 962440 4224000 22.78
Colombia 10226820 45407000 22.52

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country Facebook users (July 2010) population Percentage penetration

Serbia 2064220 9850000 20.96
Kuwait 518540 2985000 17.37
Estonia 227420 1340021 16.97
Philippines 14600300 92226600 15.83
Tunisia 1594700 10432500 15.29
Jordan 923400 6316000 14.62
Hungary 1455840 10013628 14.54
Germany 9949760 81757600 12.17
Mexico 12978440 107550697 12.07
Indonesia 25912960 231369500 11.2
Poland 2772540 38163895 7.26
Romania 1555360 21466174 7.25
Thailand 4216760 63525062 6.64
South Africa 2884080 49320500 5.85
Morocco 1849740 31787000 5.82
Oman 157440 2845000 5.53
Egypt 3581460 78158000 4.58
Algeria 928100 34895000 2.66
Brazil 4757200 192816000 2.47
Libya 156240 6420000 2.43
Palestine 84240 3761646 2.24
Vietnam 1019120 85789573 1.19
Nigeria 1616120 154729000 1.04
Japan 1192220 127380000 0.94
Ukraine 425680 45962900 0.93
Mauritania 29600 3291000 0.9
India 10547240 1179871000 0.89
Iraq 225600 30747000 0.73
Bangladesh 854520 162221000 0.53
Uganda 168720 32710000 0.52
Rwanda 44340 9998000 0.44
Somalia 0 9133000 0
Sudan 0 39154490 0
Syria 0 21906000 0

source: Nick Burcher, Facebook, Wikipedia

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