Google Play: quarterly growth of available apps as 2015-2024

Published by Laura Ceci, Sep 27, 2024

During the most recently measured period, the number of mobile apps available to Android users in the Google Play Store decreased by 18.5 than two percent compared to the previous quarter. During the first quarter of 2024, the number of available Android apps distributed on the Google Play Store experienced a drop of 18 percent compared to the last quarter of 2023.

Growth of available mobile apps in the Google Play Store worldwide from 2nd quarter 2015 to 2nd quarter 2024

CharacteristicQuarterly growth rate
Q2 '24 -18.45%
Q1 '24 -18.14%
Q4 '23 -7.08%
Q3 '23 -1.1%
Q2 '23 0.12%
Q1 '23 -0.69%
Q4 '22 4.33%
Q3 '22 1.29%
Q2 '22 6.35%
Q1 '22 -29.48%
Q4 '21 10.58%
Q3 '21 9.73%
Q2 '21 10.69%
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October 2022

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Q2 2015 to Q2 2024

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Values are estimated due to inconsistent collection.

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