Summary Of The Most Striking Social Media Stats About The Middle East

Social4ce, the Middle Eastern boutique social media agency and consultancy, has compiled in the below video the most interesting statistics about the state of social media in the Middle East.

• 40.2% of the total Middle East population accesses the web,
• 88% of this online population uses social networking on a daily basis,
• In the Middle East, 65% of online users are men, 35% are women,
• 36% of the Middle East of online users are aged between 18 and 24 years,
• Jordan has the highest penetration rate of social networks across Internet users: 88%,
• The smartphones penetration rate in KSA is 63%,
• Facebook is the most popular social network with 94% of the Middle East’s social media users are on it,
• UAE has the highest penetration rate for Facebook (44%),
• 6.5 million users from the Middle East are on Twitter:  3.7 million are active users,
• Arabs produce around 10 million tweets everyday,
• KSA has a penetration rate of 33% for Twitter. It is the highest penetration of Twitter in the world,
• LinkedIn counts over 5.8 million users from the Middle East,
• UAE has the highest LinkedIn penetration with 1.6 million users: A number that has increased by 45% in only 1 year,
• There are 258 million daily views of Youtube videos. 90 million of them come from KSA.

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