Saturday, December 6, 2008

Facebook Growth By Geography and Gender

There is a great summary of Facebook's growth by region and gender on the O'Reilly blog. Most notably:
  • Facebook now has 128 M users
  • The United States only represenents 30% of the Facebook population.
  • Spain and Italy have seen significant growth in Europe
  • Venezuela, Argentina, and Uruguay were Facebook's fastest-growth countries in South America
  • Facebook has two significant competitors in Asia - Multiply and Friendster.
  • Females now outnumber Males, 51% to 44%
Lots of nice charts and graphs here.