Azerbaijan, Baku, May 26 / Trend, H.Valiyev /
Number of users of Facebook social network in Azerbaijan hit 401,600, according to Facebakers Research Company's report as of May 26.
Over the last two months, the number of the social network users in Azerbaijan increased by 23.6 percent, or 76,720 users.
Azerbaijani Facebook segment ranks 95th in the attendance rating, one point less compared to early April.
Roughly 4.84 percent of the Azerbaijani population use Facebook, which is 0.93 percent more compared to early April.
The percentage of users of social network among the total number of Internet users in Azerbaijan also increased by 2.08 percent and amounted to 10.89 percent.
Some 64 percent of the total number of users is men, while 36 percent - women.
Some 51 percent visitors of the social network account for peoples at age of 18-24, while around 27 percent visitors - at age of 25-34 and the 16-17 year-old users form 11 percent of the total users.
Moreover, 6 percent fall to the age categories of 35-44 and 13-15, whereas those between the ages of 45-54 form two percent and only one percent of users fall in the age bracket of 55-64 and above 65.
The number of Facebook users in Azerbaijan is greater than some other CIS countries such as Kazakhstan with 297,840 users, Belarus with 284,400users, Moldova with 206,220 users, Armenia with 170,440users, Uzbekistan with 73,380 users, Kyrgyzstan with 51,200 users, Tajikistan with 17,440 users and Turkmenistan with 13,140 users.
The top five countries Facebook-using countries in the world, according to Facebakers, are the United States, Indonesia, UK, Turkey and Philippines.
The total number of Facebook users globally is 702,650,880 people.
Facebook social network started working on Feb. 4, 2004. At present, its services are available in 60 languages, including in the Azerbaijani language.