Countries with the highest share of PHAs installed via the Google Play Store 2022

During the fourth quarter of 2022, installs of potentially harmful applications (PHAs) via the Google Play Store in India represented on average 0.17 percent, up from 0.06 percent recorded during the previous quarter. Installs of PHAs in Russia reached 0.15 percent of total installs on the platform in the fourth quarter of 2021. In the same period, Indonesia saw 0.24 percent of PHAs installs, while the United States saw 0.03 percent.

Countries with the highest share of potentially harmful applications (PHAs) installs via the Google Play Store from 1st quarter 2020 to 4th quarter 2022

Characteristic	Brazil	Germany	Indonesia	India	Japan	South Korea	Mexico	Russia	Turkey	United States
Q1 '20	0.03%	0.07%	0.15%	0.15%	0.01%	0.06%	0.07%	0.03%	0.1%	0.08%
Q2 '20	0.02%	0.06%	0.1%	0.16%	0.05%	0.04%	0.06%	0.03%	0.07%	0.08%
Q3 '20	0.06%	0.06%	0.05%	0.13%	0.06%	0.06%	0.06%	0.03%	0.05%	0.08%
Q4 '20	0.09%	0.03%	0.04%	0.11%	0.07%	0.11%	0.03%	0.02%	0.02%	0.05%
Q1 '21	0.09%	0.04%	0.06%	0.12%	0.09%	0.08%	0.04%	0.02%	0.02%	0.07%
Q2 '21	0.09%	0.03%	0.1%	0.14%	0.05%	0.05%	0.05%	0.02%	0.02%	0.08%
Q3 '21	0.06%	0.03%	0.14%	0.15%	0.03%	0.03%	0.05%	0.03%	0.04%	0.06%
Q4 '21	0.04%	0.02%	0.1%	0.1%	0.01%	0.02%	0.05%	0.02%	0.05%	0.04%
Q1 '22	0.03%	0.01%	0.06%	0.1%	0%	0.02%	0.05%	0.03%	0.05%	0.02%
Q2 '22	0.02%	0.02%	0.03%	0.09%	0.01%	0.01%	0.04%	0.1%	0.08%	0.01%
Q3 '22	0.03%	0.01%	0.06%	0.07%	0.01%	0.02%	0.04%	0.07%	0.05%	0.02%
Q4 '22	0.08%	0.03%	0.24%	0.17%	0.04%	0.05%	0.08%	0.15%	0.08%	0.04%

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February 2023

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Q1 2020 to Q4 2022

Supplementary notes

Quarterly data summarized by Statista on the basis of data by the source.

The source identifies PHA as 'potentially harmful applications'

According to the source, installs of potentially harmful applications represent less than one percent of all the installs on Android devices equipped with Google Play Protect.

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