Amount Of Facebook Users
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Ega Wahyudi
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Sunday, October 13, 2019
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Total Facebook Users
Amount Of Facebook Users
This year, 169.5 million individuals in the United States-- or over half of the populace-- will certainly make use of Facebook, a 0.9% rise from 2017, according to our estimates.
By the end of the forecasting duration (2022 ), we expect Facebook's user base to grow to 176.3 million. That's thanks, in big part, to older demographics.
How Old Are Facebook Users?
While younger individuals are leaving Facebook at an also faster speed than we formerly anticipated, older age are accessing the social system more-- specifically the 55-to-64 as well as 65-plus age.
" Each of those age will certainly add roughly 1 million new individuals in 2018, which is significant taking into consideration Facebook's individual base all at once will certainly increase by just 1.6 million," stated eMarketer elderly forecasting analyst Chris Bendtsen. "What this indicates is that Facebook is including a lot more new older individuals than it's losing younger ones."
Generally, Facebook's usage amongst 55- to 64-year-olds will raise by 4.9% in 2018. As well as use amongst those 65 as well as older is expected to increase by 6.0%.
At the same time, Facebook's use among those 11 and younger will certainly decline 9.3%, while those in the 12-to-17 age and those in the 18-to-24 age group will certainly decrease by 5.6% and 4.5%, respectively.
Teenagers might be moving from Facebook, however it's still the No. 1 social media network among millennials, Gen Xers as well as boomers.
Actually, infant boomers prefer Facebook over various other social apps, like Pinterest, Instagram as well as specifically Snapchat. This year, we expect 31.9 million people because associate to use Facebook.
" Facebook is still doing well in these older age," stated eMarketer major analyst Debra Aho Williamson. "It's true that Instagram is gaining strength amongst those 35 as well as older, but Facebook stays their system of choice."
" It's where their loved ones are, and also its attributes are familiar as well as risk-free," she added. "In spite of Facebook's commonly publicized troubles with data privacy, hacking and phony information, a lot of users in these age groups are still using it."