15 stats about social media in the Middle East that you need to know | social4ce
July 1, 2014 | Author: Karine Jazra
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Here are the most striking ones:
– 40.2% of the total Middle East population accesses the web
– 88% of this online population uses social networking daily
– In the Middle East, 65% of users are men, 35% are women
– 36% of them are aged between 18 and 24 years.
– Jordan has the highest penetration rate of social networks across Internet users: 88%
– The smartphones penetration rate in KSA is 63%
– Facebook is the most popular social network with 94% of the Middle East’s social media users who are on Facebook
– UAE has the highest penetration rate for Facebook 44%
– 6.5 million users from the Middle East are on Twitter: 3.7 million are active users
– Arabs produce around 10 million tweets EVERY day
– KSA has a penetration rate of 33% for Twitter. It is the highest penetration of Twitter in the whole world
– Linkedin counts over 5.8 million users from the Middle East.
– UAE has the highest Linkedin penetration with 1.6 million users: A number that has increased by 45% in only 1 year
– There are 258 million daily views on Youtube. 90 million of them from KSA.
