WhatsApp: these are the 10 countries with the most active users of the application in 2019

The research firm eMarketer has published a study badyzing the number of users who access WhatsApp through any device at least once a month. one in three users in the world.

Jasmine Enverg, an badyst at eMarketer, said that "India has been able to accumulate a number of WhatsApp users as high, partly because the platform can be used in some basic or traditional phones such that the JioPhone, very popular in this country ".

Next come Brazil with 99 million users and the United States with 68.1 million, followed by 8 other major countries such as Indonesia (59.9 million), Mexico (57.2 million ), Russia (54.1 million) and Germany (43.9 million) and Italy (32.9 million).

Spain occupies the 9th position with 30.5 million users. According to the latest data from the INE, with a total of 46.9 million inhabitants in 2019, Spain is the least populated country of the top 10 WhatsApp users and ahead of the United Kingdom with its 27.6 million users. (of 66 million inhabitants).

The study also points out that they do not take into account fake or duplicate accounts. In addition, they point out that in the case of the United States, they expect Facebook Messenger "nearly double the number of WhatsApp users with 117.6 million against 68.1 million".

On the other hand, the study indicates that Brazil, Argentina and India are the top three countries in terms of WhatsApp penetration in smartphones, where "more than 90% of smartphone in each country, they will use WhatsApp this year. "

In addition, they claim that "WhatsApp will greatly contribute to the growth of the use of messaging applications in the world". According to their forecasts, the total number of users of email applications is expected to increase by 12.1% this year, reaching 2.520 million people, which means that 87.1% of smartphone in the world, they will use a messaging application at least once a month in 2019.