Number of Armenian Facebook users over six months increases by 50.10% to 203,000

YEREVAN, September 9. /ARKA/. The number of Armenian Facebook users over the past six months has increased by 50.10% or 67,700 to almost 203,000 as of September 9, 2011, according to the statistics unveiled by Facebakers. The growth has placed Armenia on the 117th position among 213 countries of the world's, indexed in Facebakers.

According to the report, the number of Armenian Facebook users make 6.84% of the population, the penetration of social networks is about 97.42%. According to the report, the most active segment of Armenians in social networks are women (53%). With regard to age, the most active is the younger generation aged 13- 35 years (83% of users), the bulk are young people aged 18-24 years (37% of users). Representatives of older generation - 35 years and older make only 17% of Armenian users of Facebook.

Facebook is most popular in the U.S. where it has 155.2 million users, in Indonesia (nearly 40.1 million users), in India (35.6 million), Turkey (about 30.5 million) and Britain (30.1 million). At end of 2010 only 106,000 Armenians used Facebook. -0-