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statCounter: Android Share in Operating Systems, Per Country

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 03, 2025

HAVING just mentioned the decline of Windows, let's consider where, according to statCounter, Android is already very dominant:

Country

Android share

             

Bermuda

0

             

Tokelau

0

             

Niue

0

             

North Korea

0

             

Christmas Island

0

             

American Samoa

1.38

             

Holy See (Vatican City State)

5

             

Bahamas

5.08

             

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

5.94

             

Faroe Islands

8.07

             

Saint Barthelemy

8.33

             

Liechtenstein

9.4

             

Denmark

15.6

             

Monaco

17.25

             

Montserrat

17.28

             

Japan

18.89

             

Estonia

19.12

             

Jersey

19.64

             

Norway

19.67

             

Andorra

20.84

             

Canada

20.94

             

Turks and Caicos Islands

21.32

             

Taiwan

21.34

             

Iceland

21.89

             

San Marino

22.13

             

Isle of Man

22.45

             

Belize

22.74

             

Australia

23.14

             

United States of America

23.31

             

Guernsey

23.35

             

Sweden

23.43

             

Saint Martin

23.44

             

Ukraine

24

             

Switzerland

24.35

             

Armenia

24.97

             

Lithuania

26.68

             

Russian Federation

26.85

             

Cayman Islands

27.54

             

Gibraltar

27.66

             

Marshall Islands

28.21

             

Macao

28.38

             

Austria

29.14

             

Greenland

29.17

             

Guam

29.71

             

Luxembourg

29.82

             

Moldova

29.91

             

Finland

30.35

             

Cook Islands

30.59

             

Hong Kong

31

             

Belgium

31.34

             

Belarus

31.59

             

Portugal

32.22

             

Cambodia

32.48

             

Eritrea

32.54

             

Germany

32.82

             

Puerto Rico

32.98

             

Latvia

33.05

             

United Kingdom

33.44

             

Greece

33.59

             

Czech Republic

34.34

             

Malta

34.79

             

Kazakhstan

34.89

             

Netherlands

35.05

             

Slovenia

35.43

             

Saint Lucia

35.6

             

Aruba

35.63

             

Turkmenistan

36.73

             

Barbados

36.97

             

Dominican Republic

37.58

             

New Zealand

37.67

             

Saint Kitts and Nevis

37.7

             

Palau

38.27

             

Anguilla

38.43

             

Mongolia

38.74

             

Antigua and Barbuda

38.74

             

Cyprus

39.88

             

Brunei Darussalam

40.18

             

Italy

40.62

             

Saint Helena

41.07

             

Uruguay

41.31

             

British Virgin Islands

41.34

             

Trinidad and Tobago

41.78

             

Albania

41.8

             

Jamaica

42.16

             

Costa Rica

42.34

             

Northern Mariana Islands

42.78

             

Georgia

42.79

             

Equatorial Guinea

43.22

             

Ecuador

43.27

             

Seychelles

43.88

             

Grenada

44.11

             

Slovakia (Slovak Republic)

44.25

             

Romania

44.37

             

Chile

44.42

             

Ireland

44.46

             

Peru

44.52

             

Panama

44.63

             

Croatia

45.03

             

South Korea

45.45

             

Malaysia

45.61

             

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

45.7

             

Honduras

46.58

             

Bahrain

46.66

             

Thailand

46.97

             

Rwanda

47.01

             

Kuwait

47.1

             

Poland

47.21

             

Kyrgyz Republic

47.51

             

Sao Tome and Principe

48.55

             

Falkland Islands (Malvinas)

49.48

             

Israel

49.81

             

Colombia

50.13

             

Hungary

50.14

             

Serbia

50.37

             

Dominica

50.44

             

Singapore

50.84

             

Maldives

51.26

             

Uzbekistan

51.94

             

Lao Peoples Democratic Republic

52.25

             

France

52.27

             

Vietnam

52.32

             

China

52.77

             

Vanuatu

53.08

             

Turkey

53.63

             

Montenegro

53.72

             

Suriname

53.87

             

Bosnia and Herzegovina

53.93

             

El Salvador

54.17

             

Guatemala

54.9

             

Congo (Republic of the)

55.4

             

Spain

55.5

             

Paraguay

55.87

             

Tunisia

55.95

             

Argentina

55.97

             

Lebanon

55.99

             

Morocco

56.07

             

Samoa

56.46

             

Sri Lanka

56.49

             

Nicaragua

56.55

             

Fiji

56.62

             

Namibia

57.47

             

Martinique

57.47

             

Botswana

58.15

             

Qatar

58.29

             

Macedonia

58.38

             

Bolivia

58.46

             

Togo

58.53

             

Timor-Leste

59.2

             

Reunion

59.51

             

Bulgaria

59.61

             

Guyana

59.64

             

Angola

59.77

             

Senegal

60.01

             

Cote dIvoire

60.71

             

Ghana

60.75

             

Gabon

60.75

             

Jordan

60.85

             

Tajikistan

61.36

             

Cape Verde

61.97

             

Azerbaijan

62.06

             

Venezuela

62.51

             

Guadeloupe

62.71

             

Burundi

62.83

             

Iran

63.02

             

Somalia

63.03

             

Brazil

63.49

             

Micronesia

63.64

             

Saudi Arabia

64.91

             

Uganda

65.03

             

Kenya

65.28

             

Zimbabwe

66.06

             

Nauru

66.18

             

Gambia

66.4

             

Oman

66.44

             

Solomon Islands

66.54

             

Bangladesh

67.03

             

Algeria

67.06

             

Lesotho

67.08

             

Mauritania

67.68

             

Cameroon

67.76

             

Mauritius

67.77

             

South Africa

68.13

             

Burkina Faso

68.78

             

Indonesia

68.8

             

Bhutan

68.98

             

Iraq

69.56

             

United Arab Emirates

69.6

             

Benin

70.02

             

French Guiana

70.35

             

Nepal

70.37

             

Mali

70.45

             

Libya

70.61

             

Guinea-Bissau

71.33

             

Zambia

71.5

             

Tanzania

72.09

             

Madagascar

72.52

             

Cuba

72.6

             

New Caledonia

73.1

             

Malawi

73.3

             

Ethiopia

73.89

             

Congo (Democratic Republic of the)

74.08

             

Pakistan

74.12

             

Comoros

74.13

             

Yemen

74.24

             

Sierra Leone

74.45

             

Nigeria

74.66

             

Papua New Guinea

74.82

             

Mexico

75.18

             

Guinea

75.33

             

Haiti

75.76

             

Mozambique

75.84

             

India

76.4

             

Myanmar

76.83

             

Egypt

77.01

             

Afghanistan

77.13

             

Central African Republic

77.81

             

Liberia

77.83

             

Swaziland

80.08

             

Niger

81.35

             

Wallis and Futuna

81.88

             

Philippines

82.16

             

Chad

82.44

             

Kiribati

82.76

             

French Polynesia

83.03

             

Djibouti

83.12

             

Palestinian Territory

84.19

             

Mayotte

84.43

             

Syrian Arab Republic

84.61

             

Sudan

84.91

             

Tonga

87.39

             

Norfolk Island

90

             

Svalbard & Jan Mayen Islands

100

             

Tuvalu

100

             

Towards the bottom there are poorer countries. The costs of laptops are more prohibitive there. █

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