Some Interesting Facebook Statistics

Facebook keeps track of some interesting information on their statistics page:

• More than 140 million active users
• More than half of Facebook users are outside of college
• The fastest growing demographic is those 25 years old and older
• Average user has 100 friends on the site
• 2.6 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide)
• More than 13 million users update their statuses at least once each day
• More than 2.5 million users become fans of Pages each day
  
• More than 700 million photos uploaded to the site each month
• More than 4 million videos uploaded each month
• More than 15 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) shared each month
• More than 2 million events created each month
• More than 19 million active user groups exist on the site
• More than 35 translations available on the site, with more than 60 in development
• More than 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States
• More than 660,000 developers and entrepreneurs from more than 180 countries
  
• More than 52,000 applications currently available on Facebook Platform
• 140 new applications added per day
• More than 95% of Facebook members have used at least one application built on Facebook Platform

(Note: data from 12-18-08)

At current pace, Facebook is growing at around 600,000 users per day.