How Many People Use Facebook New Updated 2019
How Many People Use Facebook
This year, 169.5 million individuals in the US-- or over half of the populace-- will certainly utilize Facebook, a 0.9% boost from 2017, according to our estimates.
By the end of the projecting duration (2022 ), we anticipate Facebook's customer base to grow to 176.3 million. That's thanks, in big component, to older demographics.
How Old Are Facebook Users?
While more youthful individuals are leaving Facebook at an also quicker rate than we formerly anticipated, older age groups are accessing the social system extra-- particularly the 55-to-64 as well as 65-plus age.
" Each of those age will add roughly 1 million brand-new individuals in 2018, which is significant considering Facebook's customer base in its entirety will certainly increase by just 1.6 million," stated eMarketer elderly projecting expert Chris Bendtsen. "What this suggests is that Facebook is adding extra new older individuals than it's losing younger ones."
On the whole, Facebook's use amongst 55- to 64-year-olds will boost by 4.9% in 2018. And use among those 65 and also older is anticipated to boost by 6.0%.
Meanwhile, Facebook's use amongst those 11 as well as more youthful will decrease 9.3%, while those in the 12-to-17 age group as well as those in the 18-to-24 age will certainly decrease by 5.6% as well as 4.5%, specifically.
Teens might be shifting from Facebook, but it's still the No. 1 social media network amongst millennials, Gen Xers as well as boomers.
As a matter of fact, infant boomers favor Facebook over various other social apps, like Pinterest, Instagram and also particularly Snapchat. This year, we expect 31.9 million people in that associate to use Facebook.
" Facebook is still performing well in these older age," claimed eMarketer major expert Debra Aho Williamson. "It's true that Instagram is gaining strength among those 35 and older, but Facebook remains their system of selection."
" It's where their family and friends are, and its features are familiar as well as secure," she added. "Despite Facebook's commonly publicized issues with data personal privacy, hacking as well as phony information, a lot of individuals in these age are still using it."