30th October 2007

Facebook stats for the UK, 6,407,580 members

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Hat tip to Paul

Using the Flyers Pro application on Facebook, Paul has extrapolated some interesting statistics that are probably not available elsewhere. Thanks to Damien Mulley’s blog post for the idea.

Sex
6,407,580 people in the UK
2,320,200 are male
2,789,540 are female

Age
3,241,800 men between 18 and 25
1,565,520 women between 18 and 25
907,620 men between 25 and 35
1,006,420 women between 25 and 35
227,220 men and women between 35 and 60

Professional vs student
5,160,740 who are not students
295,260 are in High School
447,820 are in college
503,760 Alumni

As you can see, the ratio of professionals to students is extremely high. This is something that LinkedIn enthusiasts should take note of. It’s hardly surprising Facebook is targeting universities via their O2 relationship.

Relationship status
906,980 men registered as single
826,620 women registered as single
638,740 men in a relationship
907,400 women in a relationship
276,840 men who are married
414,740 women who are married

Religion
545,240 Liberals
251,320 Moderates
216,660 Conservatives

London network
1,503,979 people in the London network
577,380 are male
665,180 are female

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  • @Rax, my guess is that some people decide not to give out specific information. I didn't bother with under 18 when I put the stats together because the kettle had eventually boiled :)

    Perhaps I'll do an update to cover more.
  • Rax Lakhani
    Thanks for posting these Jasdev,

    I've been after these kind of stats for a while. Useful breakdown I think - particularly for planning (read - justifying!)a social media marketing strategy.

    Slightly confused on the actual figures though...

    AGE:

    3,241,800 men between 18 and 25
    1,565,520 women between 18 and 25
    907,620 men between 25 and 35
    1,006,420 women between 25 and 35
    227,220 men and women between 35 and 60

    This in theory, gives us a total of 6,948,580 users between the ages of 18 and 60 in the UK.

    Compare this to the figure presented for the total number of users in the UK: 6,407,580

    What's going on here?

    Am I missing something?

    ...and what of the under 18s?

    Maybe it's me getting my numbers muddled... but something doesn't add up...

    Rax
  • Jim Marwick
    Jaz, its good to see that the web-pitch is still going strong, although you've got to sort out them margins. It was
    particularily hard trying to read the Facebook stats.
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