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255,000,000,000
255,000,000,000 — app store downloads annual for App stores — total annual downloads globally (2024)
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255,000,000,000
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Count
Data Vintage
2024
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C
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WEZOM
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Tier A
https://wezom.com/blog/outsourcing-mobile-app-development-in-2025-guide-for-business-leaders ↗
Source Article
Did you know that by the beginning of 2025, developers had created 8.93 million mobile apps, and they had already been downloaded more than 255 billion times? Isn't this an indicator that mobile apps are becoming a part of our everyday lives? Meanwhile, mobile development cannot be cheap, so the fir…
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Sensor Tower App Revenue and Download Estimates 2024
https://sensortower.com/blog/app-revenue-and-download-estimates
2026-05-01
2026-06-04
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Sensor Tower
· Original study ↗
Methodology
Sensor Tower 2024 app store intelligence. Total app downloads across iOS App Store and Google Play Store globally.
Study: Unknown
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App stores — total annual downloads globally: 255,000,000,000 app store downloads annual. Source: WEZOM (2024). Via Lighthouse Research Data — https://lighthousedata.io/data/app-store-downloads-annual-app-stores-total-annual-downloads-globally-2024
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