WhatsApp
is most popular global mobile messenger app worldwide with
approximately 1.6 billion monthly active users.
Facebook-owned
messaging app WhatsApp for Android has now notched up a staggering
five billion downloads, making it only the second non-Google app to
achieve this milestone.
As with most
Android applications that reach large amounts of installs, this
number does not just include downloads from the Play Store, but also
pre-installed copies like Samsung and Huawei has bundled the app with
some smartphones in the past, AndroidPolice reported.
According to
Statista, WhatsApp is most popular global mobile messenger app
worldwide with approximately 1.6 billion monthly active users,
outranking Facebook Messenger at 1.3 billion and WeChat at 1.1
billion users in 2019. Following Facebook and YouTube, it is the
third most popular social network worldwide.
As for the
Google Play store, South Korea was the fastest-growing WhatsApp
market, with downloads of the mobile messaging app increasing almost
56 percent in 2019.
Additionally,
Google for the first time in five years, unseated Facebook
as the top publisher of mobile apps.
In the last
quarter of 2019, Google amassed close to 850 million downloads
compared to Facebook's nearly 800 million, analytics firm Sensor
Tower revealed recently.
When it
comes to overall downloads for the year, however, Google still trails
behind Facebook.
While Google
raked in nearly 2.3 billion downloads, Facebook gained almost 3
billion downloads over the past 12 months.
Facebook
owns four out of the top five most downloaded apps worldwide,
including WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and Messenger, that does not
come as a surprise.
ByteDance-owned
video sharing app TikTok was the world's second-most downloaded app
in 2019.
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