Yearly growth in global downloads of most popular Android app categories 2021

Published by Laura Ceci, Dec 12, 2023
In 2021, tool apps saw a global increase in downloads from the Google Play Store of almost 50 percent compared to the previous year. Finance apps also experienced an increase in yearly downloads, with users worldwide amassing more than four billion downloads of finance apps, up by 33 percent compared to 2020. In 2021, photo and video apps saw approximately six percent fewer downloads compared to the previous year.

Year-over-year download growth in leading app categories in the Google Play Store worldwide 2021

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Statistic: Year-over-year download growth in leading app categories in the Google Play Store worldwide 2021

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February 2022

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Worldwide

Survey time period

2021

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According to the source: "does not include third-party Android stores in China."

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