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42.1%
42.1% -- platform adoption rate by gender for YouTube (2026)
42.1% of men use YouTube, compared to 37.1% of women.
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42.1%
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2026
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Datareportal
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https://www.datarefs.com/statistics/social-media/youtube-users/ ↗
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YouTube Users Statistics 2026 (By Country & Demographics)
More than 2.7 billion people use YouTube every month, and they collectively watch over 1 billion hours of video every single day, the equivalent of roughly one in every two internet users on Earth.
This article breaks down the latest YouTube user statistics for 2026, total and daily users, age, gend…
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YouTube: 42.1% platform adoption rate by gender. Source: Datareportal (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/youtube-gender-usage-gap
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/youtube-gender-usage-gap" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>42.1%</strong> -- platform adoption rate by gender for YouTube<br><small>Source: Datareportal (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/youtube-gender-usage-gap" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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