Facebook: monthly active users in Europe 2012-2022

In the first quarter of 2022, Meta's Facebook had 418 million monthly active users (MAUs), a decrease of almost ten million users on the previous quarter. Although the platform saw an increase in users throughout 2021, MAU's have now returned to pre-2021 numbers.

Monthly active users worldwide

In the fourth quarter of 2008 Facebook provided a service for just 100 million active users. Thirteen years on, as of the second quarter of 2021 that number had risen to an astounding 2.89 billion MAUs. The number of MAUs has never taken a backward step during the examined period.

 Growth outside of Europe and North America 

Facebook continues to focus on regions outside of Europe and North America, and the reward of this effort can be seen in areas such as the Asia Pacific region, where the company has seen significant gains in terms of growing the active user base. Facebook reached over 788 million daily active users (DAU) in the second quarter of 2021.