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Number of Active Facebook Users

The chart above displays the number of Monthly Active Facebook Users from 2020 to 2023 in millions at the end of each quarter. At the end of the first quarter of 2023, the Monthly active userbase of Facebook was just 11 millions short of reaching 3 billion.

Number of Facebook Monthly Active Users 2012-2022

Numbers are in millions.

2023MAUs (millions)
Mar 312,989

Facebook’s Monthly active userbase is fast approaching 3 billion. At the end of the first quarter of 2023, the number of Facebook’s Monthly Active users was 2,989 million or just 11 million short of 3 billion.

2022MAUs (millions)
Mar 312,936
Jun 302,934
Sep 302,958
Dec 312,963

BY the end of 2022, the number of Facebook’s Monthly Active Users (MAUs) had grown to 2,963 million or 51 million higher compared to the number of monthly active users at the end of the prior year.

2021MAUs
Mar 312,853
Jun 302,895
Sep 302,910
Dec 312,912

The number of Monthly Active users of Facebook increased to 2.912 billion at the end of 2021 compared to 2.797 billion at the end of 2020. (Meta is the parent company of Facebook.)

2020MAUs
Mar 312,603
Jun 302,701
Sep 302,740
Dec 312,797
2019 Monthly Active Users (millions)
(Dec. 2019)2,498
Sep2,449
Jun2,414
Mar2,375

The number of Facebook Monthly Active Users (MAUs) grew to 2.5 billion in December 2019, compared to 2.45 billion in September 2019.

2018Monthly Active Users (millions)
(Dec. 2018)2,320
Sep2,271
Jun2,234
Mar2,196 
2017Monthly Active Users (millions)
(Dec 2017)2,129
Sep2,072
Jun2,006
Mar1,936
2016Monthly Active Users (millions)
 (Dec 2016)1,860
Sep1,788
Jun1,712
Mar1,654
2015Monthly Active Users (millions)
(Dec 2015)1,591
Sep1,545
Jun1,490
Mar1,441
2014Monthly Active Users (millions)
(Dec 2014)1,393
Sep1,350
Jun1,317
Mar1,276
2013Monthly Active Users (millions)
(Dec 2013)1,228
Sep1,189
Jun1,155
Mar1,110
2012Monthly Active Users (millions)
Dec1,056
Sep1,007
Jun955
Mar901

About Facebook:

 Facebook is one of the leading social media platforms with an active user base that runs in billions. The company was incorporated in Delaware in July, 2004. It has its headquarters at Menlo Park, California. Apart from facebook, the company aslo owns messenger, Instagram, Whatsapp, and Oculus. Substantially all of facebook’s revenue comes from advertising. The social media platform of Facebook provides attractive features for building communities and connecting with others as well as advertising and promotions.

The number of Monthly Active users of Facebook has increased fast in the recent years. In 2012 Q3, the number of Monthly Active Users at Facebook had reached 1 Billion. The number of MAUs is now close to 2.2 Billion in first quarter of 2018. their number had reached 2 Billion in the second quarter of 2017 and has kept rising steadily. Facebook has been investing in marketing and marketing campaigns so as to grow its user base faster.