It's no secret that Facebook is astoundingly popular, but a new report from the Facebook stats blog Socialbakers.com says the social networking behemoth is about to reach "an absolutely jaw-dropping milestone": 700 million users. Here, a brief guide by the numbers:
500,000,000
Number of users that Facebook confirmed it had reached last summer, according to PCMag
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200,000,000
Number of additional users that Facebook will have added in roughly a year if the projection by Socialbakers.com that Facebook is "closing in" on 700,000,000 holds true
6,922,088,426
Estimated world population, according to U.S. Census Bureau
About 150,000,000
Number of Facebook users in the U.S. alone, the most of any country, according to PCMag
311,365,194
Approximate population of the U.S., according to U.S. Census Bureau
1,900,000
Number of new Facebook users added in Brazil last month, the most of any country. Other countries that showed big gains in May were Indonesia, Philippines, Mexico, Argentina, and India. "Brazil and India are interesting because they're huge and have other social networks," says Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry at Business Insider. "If Facebook dominates there, it can grow that much faster and dominate that much more."
100 billion
Number of photos that Facebook is project to host by summer's end, according to the Pixable photo sharing blog
6 billion
Estimated number of photos uploaded to Facebook each month
750 million
Number of photos uploaded to Facebook on New Year's Eve weekend alone
347
Number of photos uploaded by the average female Facebook user, according to Pixable
179
Number uploaded by the average man
345
Number of friends the average user has, according to Pixable
3
Ranking among the world's largest countries that Facebook would occupy if it were a country unto itself
Sources: Socialbakers.com, PCMag, Business Insider, Pixable, Washington Post, U.S. Census Bureau
