This statistic presents a forecast for the number of mobile app downloads worldwide in 2016, 2017 and 2021, sorted by app store. In 2021, consumers are projected to downloaded 196 billion mobile apps from the Google Play Store.
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Annual number of global mobile app downloads 2016-2021, by store
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Number of mobile app downloads worldwide in 2016, 2017 and 2021, by store (in billions)
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This statistic presents a forecast for the number of mobile app downloads worldwide in 2016, 2017 and 2021, sorted by app store. In 2021, consumers are projected to downloaded 196 billion mobile apps from the Google Play Store.
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- March 2017
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- 2016
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- Quarterly growth of available apps at Google Play as of 1st quarter 2018, by categoryGoogle Play: growth of available apps Q1 2018, by category
- Average number of new Android app releases per day from 3rd quarter 2016 to 1st quarter 2018Number of daily Google Play app releases worldwide 2016-2018
- Annual number of new mobile app releases via Google Play from 2010 to 2016Google Play: number of new app releases worldwide 2010-2016
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- Distribution of free and paid Android apps in the Google Play Store from 3rd quarter 2017 to 1st quarter 2018Distribution of free and paid Android apps 2018
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- Quarterly growth of available apps in the Amazon Appstore as of 1st quarter 2018, by categoryAmazon Appstore: growth of available apps Q1 2018, by category
- Annual number of new mobile app releases via Amazon Appstore from 2010 to 2016Amazon Appstore: number of new app releases worldwide 2010-2016
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