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)
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