WhatsApp, WeChat and Facebook Messenger Apps – Global Messenger Usage, Penetration and Statistics
The latest messaging app usage statistics show that WhatsApp has 2.0 billion users worldwide and Facebook Messenger 1.3, WeChat is just behind — it recently hit the 1 billion mark. Here you can find out all about the worldwide messaging app usage. We have user demographics and usage statistics for fourteen different countries and regions, with handy infographics. We continuously add countries, messaging apps, and updated usage statistics to this article – so check back in a few months for the latest numbers!
Active users of the top social networks and top messaging apps worldwide
WhatsApp announced in mid-February 2020 on its blog that the messaging app is now being actively used by more than 2 billion people worldwide. This puts the green messaging app far ahead of all other messaging apps such as Facebook Messenger, WeChat, Viber, Apple Business Chat or Telegram in terms of user numbers.
In Facebook’s “family of apps”, which includes the Facebook App, Instagram, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, the two messaging apps WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger have long since taken leading roles in terms of user numbers.
The latest official figures on the occasion of Facebook’s Q4/2019 results show, Facebook’s family of apps has over 2.9 billion active users per month. Around 2.3 billion users use one of the apps every day. Facebook alone has 2.5 billion monthly users worldwide.
Facebook is the measure of all things when it comes to active users worldwide. With 1.6 billion active users, WhatsApp is number 1 among all messaging apps, closely followed by FB Messenger with 1.3 billion users and the Chinese messaging app WeChat with 1.1 billion users. This is followed by Instagram with 1 billion users and the Chinese QQ with over 800 million active users.
Monthly active users (in millions) of the most popular messaging apps
Looking at the monthly active users of the top 3 most popular messaging apps speaks for the popularity of these chat applications: The top 3 apps WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and WeChat combine together more than 4 billion active monthly users.
Source: Statista 2019
There are only 25 countries in the world where WhatsApp is not the market leader.
WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are growing about twice as fast as Facebook, the original platform (+30% YoY). Currently, WhatsApp has the highest distribution of all messaging apps worldwide. If you combine all the existing apps of the Facebook Universe, there are only 10 countries in the world where the messenger market leader is not from the Facebook dynasty.
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In this article you’ll find messaging app usage statistics for the following countries and regions:
- Great Britain
- USA
- India
- Singapore
- APAC Region
- South Africa
- Germany
- China
- Austria
- Brazil
- Spain
- Italy
- France
- Latin America
For an overview of the top messaging apps worldwide – from Apple Business Chat, to WhatsApp, to LINE – and their business potential, check out our series Messaging Apps & Brands.
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