Kristi Barrow

It seems everyone is talking about Facebook at the moment in Australia.  There was a lot of interest in my article Facebook – leads in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore according to Hitwise, far more than anything else I have ever written!

Thanks to a tip from Chris Kettle, who runs  Australia’s leading online dining and entertianment guide, I did some investigating on Facebook users.

 Top 10 World Facebook Users

Top 10 World Facebook Users by country in 2008

The US leads by far in the number of Facebook users, but that’s to be expected given their huge population.  Myspace had 70m users in the US  in Dec 07, but I am still trying to get a more recent figure.  The surprise for me was Turkey, who knew Facebook was so popular there!  Australia currently sits in seventh place with almost 4million users (1).

Australian Facebook Users

Top Australian City Facebook Users in 2008

% of Facebook users by city population in Australia, 2008

Using ABS statistics, I worked out a rough estimate of Facebook users as a % of population.  It seems Brisbane is a Facebook town, with the highest % of users at 32%.  Interesting Darwin’s usage was very low at only 3%.  Perhaps it’s just that no one in Darwin wants to admit it!

Sources:

1 – Facebook | Advertising, Estimates taken on 19th of December 2008.

2 – 3218.0 – Regional Population Growth, Australia, 2006-07″. Australian Bureau of Statistics, via Wikipedia: List of cities in Australia by population

Disclaimer

All numbers are estimates only.  All statistics from Facebook were taken on the 19th of December 2008.  Facebook users as a % of population calculated by:

total number of Facebook users listed in the city  (Source 1)

city population estimate (Source 2)