Facebook: Fifth most populous ‘nation’ in Asia [Infographic]

Facebook has seen phenomenal growth in the last two years. With more than 500-million users the social network has half the population of Africa’s just over a billion. The company’s growth seems more evident in Asia with new active users emerging everyday. Asia has more than 139-million Facebook users making the social networking giant the fifth most populous “nation” in Asia.

Asia is the third largest continent on Facebook according to Social Bakers and Indonesia dominates the number of Asian countries on Facebook with 35-million users. Followed by the Philippines and India with more than 22-million users. Though banned, the social network’s growth in China seems to be on the rise with more than 650 000 users. Asia has a Facebook penetration 17.28% and makes up 22% of Facebook’s population.

The infographic, created by Ogilvy, below shows areas in Asia with the most Facebook users and its growth.