Countries with the highest share of PHAs installed via the Google Play Store 2024

During the first quarter of 2024, installs of potentially harmful applications (PHAs) via the Google Play Store in India were at approximately 0.24 percent, up from the 0.1 percent rate recorded during the first quarter of 2022. Installs of PHAs in South Korea reached 0.27 percent on the platform in the first quarter of 2024. In the same period, the Philippines saw 0.3 percent of PHAs installs in the same examined period.

Countries with the highest share of potentially harmful applications (PHAs) installs via the Google Play Store from 1st quarter 2020 to 1st quarter 2024

Characteristic	Brazil	Germany	Indonesia	India	Japan	South Korea	Mexico	Philippines	Russia	Turkey	United States
Q1 '20	0.03%	0.07%	0.15%	0.15%	0.01%	0.06%	0.07%	-	0.03%	0.1%	0.08%
Q2 '20	0.02%	0.06%	0.1%	0.16%	0.05%	0.04%	0.06%	-	0.03%	0.07%	0.08%
Q3 '20	0.06%	0.06%	0.05%	0.13%	0.06%	0.06%	0.06%	-	0.03%	0.05%	0.08%
Q4 '20	0.09%	0.03%	0.04%	0.11%	0.07%	0.11%	0.03%	-	0.02%	0.02%	0.05%
Q1 '21	0.09%	0.04%	0.06%	0.12%	0.09%	0.08%	0.04%	-	0.02%	0.02%	0.07%
Q2 '21	0.09%	0.03%	0.1%	0.14%	0.05%	0.05%	0.05%	-	0.02%	0.02%	0.08%
Q3 '21	0.06%	0.03%	0.14%	0.15%	0.03%	0.03%	0.05%	-	0.03%	0.04%	0.06%
Q4 '21	0.04%	0.02%	0.1%	0.1%	0.01%	0.02%	0.05%	-	0.02%	0.05%	0.04%
Q1 '22	0.03%	0.01%	0.06%	0.1%	0%	0.02%	0.05%	-	0.03%	0.05%	0.02%
Q2 '22	0.02%	0.02%	0.03%	0.09%	0.01%	0.01%	0.04%	-	0.1%	0.08%	0.01%
Q3 '22	0.03%	0.01%	0.06%	0.07%	0.01%	0.02%	0.04%	-	0.07%	0.05%	0.02%
Q4 '22	0.08%	0.03%	0.24%	0.17%	0.04%	0.05%	0.08%	-	0.15%	0.08%	0.04%
Q1 '23	0.23%	0.03%	0.51%	0.19%	0.1%	0.06%	0.12%	-	0.21%	0.14%	0.05%
Q2 '23	0.52%	0.03%	0.5%	0.25%	0.09%	0.13%	0.17%	-	0.16%	0.2%	0.06%
Q3 '23	0.55%	0.04%	0.43%	0.26%	0.06%	0.26%	0.15%	-	0.12%	0.2%	0.07%
Q4 '23	0.5%	0.04%	0.41%	0.25%	0.04%	0.28%	0.15%	-	0.2%	0.19%	0.09%
Q1 '24	0.28%	0.04%	0.25%	0.24%	0.02%	0.27%	0.09%	0.3%	0.22%	0.12%	0.09%

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October 2024

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Q1 2020 to Q1 2024

Supplementary notes

Quarterly data summarized by Statista on the basis of data by the source.

The source identifies PHA as 'potentially harmful applications'

According to the source, installs of potentially harmful applications represent less than one percent of all the installs on Android devices equipped with Google Play Protect.

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