Apps: countries ranked by number of app downloads 2018

In 2018, China was ranked first among the leading countries based on mobile app store downloads with 89.7 billion downloads. This represents a 70 percent growth from 2016. Second-ranked India generated 17.2 billion mobile app downloads in 2018.

Countries with the highest number of mobile app downloads from 2016 to 2018 (in billions)

Characteristic	2016	2017	2018
China	53.1	79.3	89.7
India	6.5	12.1	17.2
United States	11.7	11.3	11.9
Brazil	5.7	6.3	7.3
Indonesia	3.3	4	5.1

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July 2019

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Worldwide

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2016 to 2018

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Google Play, iOS App Store, and third party Android combined.

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