It is no surprise that the United States with 167 million Facebook users has the highest number of users of any country around the world. It also has the highest percentage of any population in the world that has signed up with the social media network. However, when it comes to Facebook’s most active members, they are found elsewhere.
In terms of the number of posts on Facebook, users in Egypt are the world’s busiest, as recently released figures by Socialbakers show. The social media analytic company has monitored the number of posts produced in countries were Facebook is active.
Here are the top five countries with the most active Facebook users.
1. Egypt
In Egypt, Socialbakers counted that users make an average of 380 Facebook posts per month on average. That’s 12.5 posts per day per site, or five times more level of activity than by American users.
With two-thirds of its 82.5 million population being illiterate, and only one quarter having access to Internet, a total of 11.7 million Egyptians are on Facebook—that is 11 times less than the number of Facebook users in the U.S.
During the uprising in Egypt that led to the ousting of longtime President Hosni Mubarak in January 2011, Facebook played an integral role. Facebook, along with Twitter and other social media sites, were “instrumental in organizing, motivating, and directing these crowds as to where to go and what to do,” the Cairo Review of Global Affairs wrote.
An Egyptian man last year apparently named his newborn baby girl “Facebook.”
