A study has revealed the exceptional growth of social media users in Bangladesh as more than 900,000 users joined the platform between 2020 and 2021.
The total number of social media users in the country is around a 45million, according to The Digital Report, a report published in February by ‘We Are Social’.
The number of social media users is equivalent to 27.2 percent of the total population of Bangladesh, the report reveals.
Internet users
There were exactly 47.61 million internet users in Bangladesh in January 2021, which increased by 7.7 million (+19%) between 2020 and 2021, the report states.
Internet penetration stood at 28.8% in January 2021.
According to the report, there were 165.8 million mobile connections in the country in January 2021, which increased by 1.7 million, almost 1.1 raised, between January 2020 and January 2021.
The number of mobile connections in Bangladesh in January 2021 was equivalent to 100.2% of the total population, it said.
The World and South Asia
The latest figures brings the total number of users on social media worldwide to 4.33 billion, or more than half of the world’s total population (7.85 billion).
Among the other South Asian countries, Pakistan also saw a sharp increase of nine million users during the time between 2020 and 2021.
47 million people started using social networks between 2020 and 2021 in India,.
Meanwhile, the number of social media users increased by seven million during the time in Myanmar, the report states.
Being the most internet penetrated country, in China alone, new users on social networks have reached 85 million in the last twelve months.
On average, more than 1.4 million users per day joined social media in the past year, according to the report.
