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Worldwide Social Network Users Forecast 2025

Emerging Markets Lead on Most Metrics, Plus a Debut Forecast for Threads

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Social network user growth will be slow on a worldwide level, but 2025’s meager 2.9% increase will still equate to more than 115 million new users. Facebook remains in the lead in most countries and regions, even though its share of internet users is declining.
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With more than 4 billion people using social networks (82.0% of the world’s internet users), user growth rates will necessarily be limited in most countries in the coming years. However, individual platforms are still seeing standout growth, and user preferences are slowly shifting.

Key Question: How many people will use social networks worldwide and across various geographies in 2025, and how do the major platforms stack up in terms of usage, growth, and penetration?

Key Stat: Facebook and Instagram still lead TikTok by a wide margin despite TikTok’s fast growth in recent years. TikTok’s user base has crossed the 1 billion user mark, but it remains more than 1 billion behind Facebook.

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  1. Executive Summary
  2. Over half of the world is now using a social network
  1. Among social platforms, Meta’s properties earn the spotlight for users, growth, and penetration
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    Ethan Cramer-Flood

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    Vice President and Principal Analyst
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    Director, Data Visualization
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    Minda Smiley
    Emman Velasco
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