How Many People Use YouTube?

Q: How Many People Use YouTube?

84% of US adults. Highest: 18 to 29 at 95%. Lowest: 65 and over at 64%. Source: Social Media Fact Sheet, n=5,022, margin of error ±1.9 points. Fieldwork 2025-02-05 to 2025-06-18.

AgingCollected 2025-02-05 to 2025-06-18 · 15 months oldVerified against the source 2026-09-09· the leading page for this query dates its freshest figure to 2026

84% of US adults. It runs from 64% among those aged 65 and over to 95% among those aged 18 to 29, a spread of 31 points. The reported totals below count accounts an advert can reach, not people. The US figure is a survey of people. Both are here, labelled, because mixing them is how a wrong number gets a citation.

By age

18 to 2995%+11n=480 ±5.6

30 to 4992%+8n=1,399 ±3.4

50 to 6485%n=1,274 ±3.6

65 and over64%-20n=1,813 ±3

By race and ethnicity

White82%n=3,304 ±2.3

Black85%n=512 ±6

Hispanic88%+4n=757 ±5

Asian92%+8n=211 ±8.9

By household income

Under $30K77%-7n=939 ±4.5

$30K to $70K84%n=1,533 ±3.6

$70K to $100K87%+3n=692 ±5.1

$100K and over89%+5n=1,629 ±3.1

By education

High school or less78%-6n=1,175 ±3.8

Some college87%+3n=1,587 ±3.4

College graduate89%+5n=2,215 ±2.7

By gender

Men86%n=2,194 ±3

Women83%n=2,758 ±2.5

By community type

Urban85%n=1,394 ±3.6

Suburban87%+3n=2,334 ±2.8

Rural79%-5n=1,235 ±3.8

By party

Rep / lean Rep84%n=2,234 ±2.8

Dem / lean Dem85%n=2,446 ±2.8

The reported totals, and what they count

These are the numbers every page quotes. None of them count people, and they are not interchangeable with each other. What each one measures is stated on the row.

2.58 billion · monthly active usersGlobal

An account that opened the app at least once in a month. One person with two accounts counts twice.

The same page gives 2.58 billion as YouTube's potential ad reach. One number, two labels: this is a count of accounts an advert can be shown to, not a count of people.

DataReportal Digital 2026, via Sprout Social

There is no US user count on this page, deliberately. Turning the measured 84% into a headcount needs the US adult population, and the sources that publish these totals do not publish that alongside them. Every page that gives you a US number has multiplied by a population figure it did not cite, or copied one from a page that did. The rate below is the part that was actually measured.

Where the other numbers come from

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datareportal.com and statista.com appear on every platform page in this set. Both are aggregators rather than the organisation that collected anything, and the figures they pass along are advertising reach: what a platform's ad tools say they can show an ad to. That is a real number. It is not a count of people, and it is not a US number.

This page instead uses Social Media Fact Sheet: a random sample of 5,022 US adults, margin of error ±1.9 points, which is one of the 94 links across that whole set.

This is one figure cut one way. The studio combines traits, shows the arithmetic behind any combination it estimates, and says plainly when nothing measures what you asked.

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Source: Social Media Fact Sheet, published 2025-11-20. Survey of 5,022 US adults, margin of error ±1.9 points overall. Subgroup margins are shown on each row. % of the group who say they ever use the named platform.

What this is, and what it is not

Measured means a named study published that figure for that population, and the study is cited with its sample size, field dates and margin of error. Those numbers are theirs, not this site's, and are reproduced under the terms each publisher sets.

Estimated means this site combined published figures to answer a question nobody measured directly. The arithmetic is printed on every such row so it can be checked or rejected. It assumes traits shift the odds independently of one another, which is rarely exactly true, so an estimate is a direction rather than a measurement and its error is wider than the sampling error shown.

Gaps are real. Where no source measures something, this says so instead of filling it in. A trait marked inferred has no evidence behind it at all and exists to be tested, not believed.

Everything here describes US adults in aggregate at the time of the fieldwork shown. It says nothing about any individual, it is not a basis for decisions about any individual, and it must not be used for eligibility, credit, employment, housing, insurance or any other decision about a person. Surveys age; the date on each figure is the date it was collected, not the date you are reading it.

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Every other question, answered

Same corpus, same discipline, one question each. The studio answers any combination of them, and the data page prints every cell.

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