WhatsApp Statistics for 2020

The messaging giant has won the hearts of people all across the world and the statistics behind WhatsApp’s success are mind-blowing. 🤯

WhatsApp has a staggering 2 BILLION users as of February 2020. It is the most popular messenger app in the world, leading the pack with a comfortable lead in front of Facebook Messenger with 1.3 billion users and WeChat with 1.2 billion. (Source: WhatsApp) It is no wonder everyone I know has a WhatsApp account. 🤔

WhatsApp is the most popular messenger app in 100+ countries. The top 10 list of countries with the highest number of users in 2019 (Source: Statista):

1. India - 340 million
2. Brazil - 99 million
3. United States - 68 million
4. Indonesia - 60 million
5. Mexico - 57 million
6. Russia - 54 million
7. Germany - 44 million
8. Italy - 33 million
9. Spain - 30 million
10. United Kingdom - 27.6 million

Here’s a map which shows all of the countries where WhatsApp is the #1 leading messenger app (marked in green). In most of the countries marked in gray, WhatsApp has a very strong market presence and comes in second to Facebook Messenger.

The number of daily active WhatsApp Status users is growing steadily. At the begging of Q1 in 2017 WhatsApp had 175 million daily active status users. Q1 in 2019 that number has grown to 500 million people using WhatsApp Status every day. (Source: Statista)

WhatsApp has 2 billion users which actively use the app every month. The number of users has grown from 200 million in April 2012 to 2000 million in March 2020. (Source: Statista)

Numbers show that WhatsApp just keeps on growing! In February 2020 it was the second most downloaded app in the world coming behind TikTok at number one. In February 2020, WhatsApp was downloaded 96 million times, which is a 42.4 percent increase compared to the same period in 2019. (Source: SensorTower)

WhatsApp user demographics

Let’s take a look at some demographic statistics from across the world:

• In Austria 85% of teenagers use WhatsApp. (saferinternet.at)
• In Brazil where WhatsApp is extremely popular 76.3% of the users are in the 15-44 age group.
• In Germany, around 95% of young people aged 14-29 use WhatsApp. (fortunly)
• In Italy, WhatsApp is extremely popular in the 25-54 age group. (messengerpeople)
• In France, we have a nice statistic which says that more than 30% of people above 60 years old actively use social media such as WhatsApp. (wearesocial)

According to eMarketer and We Are Social, WhatsApp has a strong market penetration in many European and Latin American countries. Percentage of smartphone owners which actively use WhatsApp:

Europe:

• Netherlands, 85.6%
• Italy, 85.3%
• Spain, 84.3%
• Germany, 83,4%
• Finland, 82.1%

Latin America

• Uruguay, 72%
• Chile, 71%
• Argentina, 70%

This means that almost anyone with a smartphone in these countries, uses WhatsApp. That’s very impressive! 🕺💃

The giant keeps on growing. 💪 According to data from Statista, WhatsApp had the highest growth in Q1 of 2020 in the following countries:

Increase of downloads through Google Play (Android)

Increase of downloads through the Apple Store (iOS)

So in the future we can expect to see WhatsApp continue breaking records and move even higher from its current 2 billion users.

The average WhatsApp user spends around 28 minutes on the app daily and opens it between 23-25 times. (Source: BroadbandSearch; TechJury)

Some numbers will astonish you. For example in Brazil, the average daily usage time is 60 minutes! 😲 France “only” 23 minutes, Germany 40 and India with a solid 38 minutes of daily activity.

We found out WhatsApp is extremely popular and has many users. Now let’s take a look at some numbers which show how much they use WhatsApp’s features to communicate among each other. 👇

Number of messages sent per day on WhatsApp

Data from 2018 shows that WhatsApp users send a whopping 65 billion messages every day. (Source: Business Insider)

When we say WhatsApp we always subconsciously think of chats and messaging. But the app has some impressive numbers behind its calls feature.

In July 2020 we found out that people spend 2 billion minutes per day, making calls in WhatsApp. (Source: WhatsApp)

As you already got the point, here we count in figures of millions and billions. 🤪nThere are more than 100+ million daily calls made in WhatsApp. (Source: TechCrunch)

WhatsApp is really smart and it speaks in more than 40 languages on iPhone and 60 languages on Android. (Source: WhatsApp)

WhatsApp launched 2 products, WhatsApp Business App and WhatsApp Business API specifically designed for businesses which helps them connect with their customers on the world’s most popular messenger app.

WhatsApp Business has become a huge success after its launch on Android in 2018 and iOS in 2019. At the start of 2019 more than 5 million companies already used it for communication with their customers. (Source: Pymnts)

WhatsApp is an amazing and simple messenger app which will continue to dominate our virtual communication with friends and family across the world. If you want to learn more on how WhatsApp is redefining communication between businesses and their customers, take a look at our blog dedicated on WhatsApp Business.

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