Facebook users in Africa have risen by 50 percent to 50 million. This is the largest growth across all six continents, ahead of Asia and South America, which experienced 42 percent and 32 percent growth in the last six months respectively.
Nigeria experienced the largest growth, recording a 61 percent change with over 2.5 million new users, followed by South Africa and Egypt with 1.7 million and 1 million new users respectively, reports BalancingAct. Nigeria’s growth has seen it overtake South Africa to come in second after Egypt. Nigeria has 6.7 million users and South Africa 6.5 million. Africa’s number one, Egypt, has some 11.7 million users.