Facebook has been around for a few years now and it’s popularity increases by the minute, despite some efforts against it. A lot of my friends, colleagues and family are on Facebook, myself included. A recent post on Ramon Suarez’s site about Facebook caught my eye. It concerned the Facebook usage in Belgium (and another about Spain) stating that 1 out 3 Belgians is a member of the Facebook community, which surprised me quite a bit. This encouraged me to do my own research, not that I doubt his sources, I just wanted to expand the reach of the research and see for myself. So I set forth to find the amount of users per country and comparing that with the latest statistics concerning population for the same country. A spreadsheet and a bit of photoshop/paint later I came up with this (simple) graph representing the national Facebook usage statistics for Western Europe.
Belgium is ranked among the top 10 countries, however it has (very) expensive internet prices compared to it’s neighbouring countries. Norway is clearly leading the ranking with an astounding 52.91%, the question remains will this level keep increasing or will it stabilize at this level? Only time will tell, though i am curious of hearing your opinion on this all!
Drawing accurate conclusions from this graph is quite complex. Some factors influencing this, that i can think of, are:
- Internet penetration
- Population density (how far is your nearest neighbour?)
- Weather conditions (adverse weather might encourage social networking)
- Social conventions
- and other social/psychological stuff i have no clue about
A important remark however is that these numbers do not differentiate active and sleeping users. Some people have an account, but never visit/use it. The accuracy of these stats raises another question mark.
The Facebook usage statistics were found making advertisements on facebook targeting countries on june 10th 2010. The population stats were retrieved from the national statistics institutes or eurostat for the EU members. Most data was a forecast for 2010, except germany (2009 estimate), Ireland (2009 estimate) and UK (2008).
What about this chart surprises you? and why?
(If anybody is interested in recieving the detailed spreadsheet, just contact me.)
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Great work on that map. It is very easy to read. Is there a link to the source of your information?
BTW, Internet is cheaper and faster in Belgium than in Spain.
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Yeah I know internet is cheaper here but the Netherlands and Germany are even better, or at least to my knowledge.
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