In 2018, China was ranked first among the leading countries based on mobile app store downloads with 89.7 billion downloads. This represents a 70 percent growth from 2016. Second-ranked India generated 17.2 billion mobile app downloads in 2018.
Countries with the highest number of mobile app downloads from 2016 to 2018
(in billions)
Characteristic
2016
2017
2018
China
53.1
79.3
89.7
India
6.5
12.1
17.2
United States
11.7
11.3
11.9
Brazil
5.7
6.3
7.3
Indonesia
3.3
4
5.1
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