The data describes the year-on-year growth of mobile phone messaging app users worldwide from 2016 to 2021. In 2017, the number of phone users who accessed over-the-top messaging apps to communicate grew by 15.5% compared to the previous year. This annual growth rate is projected to slow to 5.9% in 2021.
2016 | 19.1 |
2017 | 15.5 |
2018 | 10.8 |
2019 | 8.5 |
2020 | 7.2 |
2021 | 5.9 |