According to the Internet World Stats Usage and Population Statistics Facebook has seen a surge in the number of people connecting using Facebook worldwide. The latest Facebook usage statistics show some interesting trends. US, continues its lead on Facebook with the country contributing to around 25% users across the globe. UK with 28,668,200 contribute 5% of the global users, and is ranked 3rd, a difference of 20% from the US users in terms of global contribution. Most people would not be aware about Indonesia growing so rapidly, but it currently contributes 5.6% in terms of global Facebook users with 32,125,662 Facebook users. Zambia with a population of 13+ million people has about 117,520 Facebook Users with a penetration rate of 0.8%. Currently, the penetration rate of Zambia is not so bad compared to other sub-saharan countries such as:

• Mozambique – 0.5%
• Tanzania- 0.6%
• Somali – 0.2%
• Malawi – 0.5%
• DRC and Madagascar – 0.7%
• Rwanda – 0.7%
• Burundi 0.2%

Here below is the latest Facebook usage statistics for Zambia as of Mar 2011. These figures are provided by Internet World Stats and a full list of other countries can be found here; however it is worth noting that there are so many variations of Facebook usage statistics compiled by different people for different reasons- it just depends on what you are looking for.


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Countries such as Ghana, Morocco and S.A enjoy penetration rates of over 5.0%. And how this penetration rate is calculated is by the number of Facebook users over the population in percentage so these figures are simply estimates from the Facebook published data base, showing results for March 31/2011. It goes without saying that Iceland, Brazil and Nicaragua are among the fastest growing Countries in terms of Facebook users. India is currently 9th with 17,288,300 users which contribute about 3% of the global Facebook users that might change by 2015 when India would be the “most connected” nation in Asia.

Here are the Top 10 countries with highest number of Facebook users (includes last quarter of 2010 to first quarter of 2011):

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