COVID-19 growth in medical app downloads by country 2020

This statistic illustrates the growth in the number of medical apps downloaded in January 2020 compared to the 'peak' month for the COVID-19 crisis in each respective country. South Korea had the highest growth, with a 135 percent increase in such downloads comparing its peak month of the pandemic with January.

Growth in the number of medical apps downloaded during the COVID-19 pandemic by country in 2020*

Characteristic	Percentage growth
South Korea	135%
India	90%
Worldwide	65%
Spain	65%
United Kingdom	60%
Japan	55%
Italy	40%
France	35%
United States	30%
Germany	30%
China	25%

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Release date

October 2020

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

January to July 2020

Supplementary notes

* Based on downloads from the IOS and Google Play App stores. Data compare the number of medical app downloads in each country using its respective 'peak' month for the COVID-19 health crisis to the number of medical app downloads during January 2020.

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