Quite a while back I had too much time on my hands and I decided to do something useful with it. I ‘calculated’ the usage of Facebook in most European countries, I did this for a few months and then didn’t really had time (or the courage) to do so again. Until today…
As I’ve been doing for a few months now, I collected a new set of data concerning Facebook usage in the European peninsula. In the 29 countries for whom I’ve collected statistics the average increase is 3.19%, thus increasing the grand total to 128.074.840 users. Facebook has now a penetrated around 25% of the European population.
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.
