Facebook Data Shows india trumps US to become Facebook's top country with largest audience

Facebook: About 15 days back, Facebook announced that it reached a new active user base milestone of 2 billion. The number rose from 1.94 billion in March this year. Now, the social media giant has reportedly given a breakdown of those numbers, detailing which country has how much audience                   
 

According to a report  by We Are Social website (via The Next Web), Facebook has revealed to its advertisers that India has surpassed US to become the social media website's largest audience for monthly active users.

 According to the list, India tops the chart with 241 million monthly active users (MAU), which is around 11% of the total traffic received by Facebook. The US is close with 240 million. Brazil, Indonesia and Mexico are on third, fourth and fifth position in charts.The report cities other various othe resarch organisations to claim that of 1.282 billion population india.
According to the report there are 462 million internet user (36 percent present)and 241 million active social media user

(19 percent).In the us on the other hand out of its 327 million population 287 million belongs to the internet user (88 percent) of which 240 million are active social media user (73 percent)
According to Facebook, out of 241 million users who access social media websites daily in India, 84% access Facebook via mobile, 54% access Facebook daily, 24% are classified as female while 76% as male. Based on age, majority users on Facebook are aged between 18-24 years. The least number of users are in 65+ years bracket.