Mobile Games To Account For 52.2% Of Downloads From App Stores In 2024
Friday 23 de August 2024 / 12:00
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(United States).- Mobile phone users are more likely to download games than any other kind of applications. In fact, as per the estimates from Statista Market Insights, more than 50% of downloads from both major app stores are games.
In 2024, users are expected to download a total of 287,948 million (287.95 billion) apps in total. Of these downloads, mobile games are expected to account for 150,366 million (or 150.4 billion) downloads, thus making up 52.2% of all downloads. In 2023, mobile games accounted for 51.4% of all app downloads. Thus, the share of mobile game downloads is expected to increase in 2024.
Photo & Video apps are expected to be the second most popular choice for downloads. As per the data, users are expected to download 31,473 million (or 31.5 billion) photo and video apps during 2024. Thus, photo and video apps are expected to make up 10.9% of all downloads.
Utility apps are expected to be the third most popular category of apps. There are expected to be 20,305 million downloads of such apps in 2024, making up slightly more than 7% of all downloads. Entertainment apps will see 14,013 million downloads during 2024, making up 4.9% of all downloads.
Social networking apps are only the fifth most popular category of apps when it comes to the number of downloads. Social networking apps are expected to account for 12,815 million downloads in 2024, making up 4.4% of all app downloads.
Music apps are next, with an estimation of 9,260 million downloads this year, making up just 3.2% of all downloads.
The remaining categories, such as Productivity, Education, Lifestyle, Business, Health & Fitness, Books & Reference, Finance, Travel, Sports, Food & Drink, News & Magazines, Shopping, Weather, Navigation, and Medical, are accumulated under ‘Other’. These categories are expected to garner a total of 49,707 million downloads, 17.3% of all downloads.
By Vyom Chaud
Categoría:Analysis
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País: United States
Región: North America
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