Monthly number of monthly Messenger users in South Africa 2021-2023
As of May 2023, Messenger users reached some 27.4 million users in South Africa. Compared to the previous month, this was a slight increase of almost 700,000 users on Meta's messaging platform. Since January 2021, the social media platform users in the country have been following an increasing trend. Overall, there were more than five million new accounts over the 29 months reviewed.