Android apps on Google Play are available for a wider range of devices than those catering to Apple's closed ecosystem.
In 2022, Google Play users worldwide downloaded 110 billion mobile apps, down from 111.3 billion apps in 2021. Generating significantly more downloads than it’s iOS counterpart, the Apple App Store, Annual number of app downloads from the Google Play Store worldwide from 2016 to 2022 (in billions)
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Downloads and revenues
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Reach and usage
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Messaging and social media
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- Premium Statistic Active social media users in the United Kingdom (UK) 2024
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- Premium Statistic Whatsapp users in the United Kingdom 2017-2025
- Basic Statistic UK quarterly downloads of WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal 2020-2023
- Premium Statistic WhatsApp usage frequency in the United Kingdom 2020
- Premium Statistic UK: Facebook Messenger users 2024, by age and gender
- Basic Statistic UK: devices used to access Facebook 2021
- Basic Statistic Facebook outage: change in time spent on social media week-over-week in the UK 2021
TikTok
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- Premium Statistic TikTok MAU in the UK 2020-2022
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- Premium Statistic Most talked about brands on TikTok in the UK 2020
Payment apps
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- Premium Statistic Biggest contactless payment brands at POS in the UK 2024
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Spotlight: mobile gaming
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- Basic Statistic UK mobile phone gaming reach 2009-2023
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- Usage of biometric apps by device users worldwide 2016-2022
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- Monthly active users (MAU) of the Foorban app for Android in Italy 2019-2020
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- Penetration rate of downloading apps via mobile phone in France 2022, by age
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- Global mobile app downloads worldwide 2018-2023
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Mobile Marketing Reads. (January 26, 2023). Annual number of app downloads from the Google Play Store worldwide from 2016 to 2022 (in billions) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved June 10, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/734332/google-play-app-installs-per-year/
Mobile Marketing Reads. "Annual number of app downloads from the Google Play Store worldwide from 2016 to 2022 (in billions)." Chart. January 26, 2023. Statista. Accessed June 10, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/734332/google-play-app-installs-per-year/
Mobile Marketing Reads. (2023). Annual number of app downloads from the Google Play Store worldwide from 2016 to 2022 (in billions). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: June 10, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/734332/google-play-app-installs-per-year/
Mobile Marketing Reads. "Annual Number of App Downloads from The Google Play Store Worldwide from 2016 to 2022 (in Billions)." Statista, Statista Inc., 26 Jan 2023, https://www.statista.com/statistics/734332/google-play-app-installs-per-year/
Mobile Marketing Reads, Annual number of app downloads from the Google Play Store worldwide from 2016 to 2022 (in billions) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/734332/google-play-app-installs-per-year/ (last visited June 10, 2024)
Annual number of app downloads from the Google Play Store worldwide from 2016 to 2022 (in billions) [Graph], Mobile Marketing Reads, January 26, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/734332/google-play-app-installs-per-year/