Reddit User and Growth Stats (2024) (2024)

Reddit was founded in 2005 as a centralized community platform categorized around different interests.

It started with $100,000 in seed funding from Y Combinator. As of August 2021, the company was valued at $10 billion, following a recent funding round of $410 million.

In February 2024, Reddit went public and now has more than 267.5 million weekly active users.

Read on to find all of the latest Reddit statistics in 2024. Here’s a breakdown of what we’ll cover:

Reddit Stats (Top Picks)

  • Reddit has 73.1 million daily active users.
  • Reddit has 267.5 million weekly active users.
  • There are more than 100,000 active subreddits on the platform.
  • Reddit registered $804.03 million in annual revenue in 2023.

Reddit Daily Active Users

According to company-published data, Reddit has 73.1 million daily active unique visitors worldwide as of Q4 2023. Reddit’s daily active user count has grown by 27.13% since Q4 2022.

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We’ve charted Reddit’s daily active user growth since Q1 2021:

DateReddit Daily Active Users
Q1 202154.8 million
Q2 202154.0 million
Q3 202153.6 million
Q4 202153.9 million
Q1 202257.5 million
Q2 202256.5 million
Q3 202257.3 million
Q4 202257.5 million
Q1 202360.3 million
Q2 202360.4 million
Q3 202366.0 million
Q4 202373.1 million

Out of 73.1 million Reddit daily active users, 36.7 million were users with registered accounts on Reddit accounting for 49.79% of all unique visitors.

Here’s a detailed breakdown of Reddit’s unique visitors by logged-in and logged-out users since Q1 2021:

DateReddit Logged-in UsersReddit Logged-out Users
Q1 202123.3 million31.5 million
Q2 202124.0 million30.0 million
Q3 202124.4 million29.2 million
Q4 202125.7 million28.2 million
Q1 202227.6 million29.9 million
Q2 202228.2 million28.3 million
Q3 202229.2 million28.1 million
Q4 202230.0 million27.5 million
Q1 202331.1 million29.2 million
Q2 202332.1 million28.3 million
Q3 202334.7 million31.3 million
Q4 202336.4 million36.7 million

Source: Reddit

Distribution of Reddit Daily Active Users by Region

49.79% of Reddit’s daily active users are based in the US. That equates to 36.4 million daily active users in the US alone.

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A further 50.21% of Reddit’s daily active users are based outside of the US, accounting for 3.67 million active users.

Here’s the complete table with Reddit active user growth by region:

DateReddit Daily Active Users (US)Reddit Daily Active Users (Rest of the World)
Q1 202127.5 million27.3 million
Q2 202126.7 million27.3 million
Q3 202126.4 million27.2 million
Q4 202125.7 million28.2 million
Q1 202226.9 million30.6 million
Q2 202226.3 million30.2 million
Q3 202227.0 million30.3 million
Q4 202227.2 million30.3 million
Q1 202328.6 million31.7 million
Q2 202328.7 million31.7 million
Q3 202332.0 million34.0 million
Q4 202336.4 million36.7 million

Source: Reddit

Reddit Weekly Active Users

Reddit has 267.5 million weekly active users as of Q4 2023. An increase from 207.3 million weekly unique visitors in Q4 2022.

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Here’s a complete breakdown of Reddit weekly active user growth since Q1 2021:

DateReddit Weekly Active Users
Q1 2021201.9 million
Q2 2021206.2 million
Q3 2021202.1 million
Q4 2021200.6 million
Q1 2022213.2 million
Q2 2022208.6 million
Q3 2022208.8 million
Q4 2022207.3 million
Q1 2023218.0 million
Q2 2023218.1 million
Q3 2023239.1 million
Q4 2023267.5 million

Source: Reddit

Reddit Monthly Active Users

As of February 2024, Reddit has an estimated 1.2 billion monthly unique visitors. That’s an increase from 1.1 billion monthly unique visitors in February 2023.

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Here’s a table with Reddit’s monthly unique visitor estimates since Q2 2021:

DateReddit Monthly Active Users
March 20221.1 billion
April 20221.1 billion
May 20221.1 billion
June 20221 billion
July 20221 billion
August 2022996.6 million
September 20221 billion
October 20221.2 billion
November 20221 billion
December 20221 billion
January 20231.3 billion
February 20231.1 billion
March 20231.1 billion
April 20231.2 billion
May 20231.1 billion
June 20231.1 billion
July 20231.1 billion
August 20231 billion
September 20231.1 billion
October 20231.1 billion
November 20231.2 billion
December 20231.2 billion
January 20241.2 billion
February 20241.2 billion

According to another source, Reddit is estimated to have 1.212 billion monthly active users in 2024.

Reddit’s monthly active user base grew by 3.66x since 2018 when the platform had 331 million monthly active users.

Here’s the breakdown of Reddit MAU growth over the past few years:

Note: Forecasted data for 2024.
YearReddit Monthly Active Users
2018331 million
2019430 million
2020619 million
2021861 million
2022918 million
20231.021 billion
20241.212 billion

Sources: Semrush, Statista

Reddit Users by Country

Around 572.5 million of Reddit unique visitors were from the US in February, accounting for 47.7% of all monthly unique visitors.

Reddit’s active user base is above 50 million in 3 other countries: India (58.9 million), UK (54.5 million), Canada (52.6 million).

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Here’s a table with the top 10 countries that have the largest Reddit active user base:

CountryReddit Monthly Unique Visitors
United States572.5 million
India58.9 million
United Kingdom54.5 million
Canada52.6 million
Brazil36.5 million
Philippines34.5 million
Australia27.7 million
Germany25.8 million
Spain19.1 million
France16.9 million

Source: Semrush

Reddit Mobile App Usage

In 2023, Reddit mobile apps were downloaded 34 million times across the App Store and Google Play. That’s down from 54 million installs in 2022.

When it comes to daily Reddit app usage, only 7% of Reddit users opened the app every day in Q4 2023. To put in perspective, other social media platforms have a higher share of engaged users who open the app every day, specifically “X/Twitter (18%), Snapchat (25%), Facebook, TikTok (32%), and Instagram (43%)”.

On average, US Reddit users spend 30 minutes a day on the app. Out of 30 minutes, nearly 16 minutes are spent on Reddit posts.

Here’s a detailed breakdown of time spent on the app among Reddit users in the US by type of activity:

ActivityShare
Post detail pages (Reddit posts)52%
Main Reddit feed26%
Video feed, profile, chat and search15%
Subreddits7%

Sources: Appfigures, Sensor Tower

Reddit Revenue

Reddit registered $804.03 million in annual revenue in 2023, a 20.6% increase over the previous year.

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Here’s the revenue over the last two years:

YearReddit Revenue
2022$666.7 million
2023$804.03 million

Nearly all (98%) of Reddit’s revenue was generated from advertising on the platform. The top 10 largest advertisers on Reddit accounted for 26% of Reddit’s revenue in 2023 (down from 28% in 2022%).

Source: Reddit

How Many Posts Are Shared on Reddit Each Year?

In 2023, an estimated 469 million posts were published on Reddit, an 11.14% year-over-year increase.

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Here’s the overview of the number of published posts on Reddit since:

Note: Forecasted data for 2024.
YearPosts Published on Reddit
2018153 million
2019199 million
2020303 million
2021366 million
2022422 million
2023469 million
2024550 million

According to Reddit, an average of 1.2 million posts were published on the platform daily in 2023 which amounts to 438 million posts a year.

Sources: Statista, Reddit

Around 2.84 billion comments and interactions were posted on Reddit in 2023. That’s a slight decrease from 2.86 billion user interactions in 2022.

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Here’s an overview of the number of comments and interactions shared on Reddit per year since 2018:

Note: Forecasted data for 2024.
YearComments Published on Reddit
20181.2 billion
20191.7 billion
20202 billion
20212.3 billion
20222.86 billion
2023/td>2.84 billion
20242.72 billion

According to company data, an average of 7.5 million comments were posted on Reddit in 2023. That equals 2.74 billion comments a year.

Overall, more than 16 billion comments have been posted on Reddit to date.

Sources: Statista, Reddit

How Many Subreddits Does Reddit Have?

Reddit has more than 100,000 active subreddits.

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Source: Reddit

Reddit Search Usage

In December 2023, Reddit had an average of more than 35 million search queries a day on the platform.

Source: Reddit

Why Do People Use Reddit?

72% of US Reddit users report that they use Reddit for entertainment purposes.

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Other common reasons for using Reddit include following the news and staying up to date with brands and companies.

Here’s the complete breakdown of the reasons that people use Reddit:

ReasonPercentage of Respondents
To get entertainment72%
To get news43%
Other purposes17%
To follow brands, companies17%
To strengthen professional network8%
To keep in touch with friends and family5%

Source: Statista

Reddit Gender Demographics

63.6% of Reddit users are male, while the remaining 35.1% are female.

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Source: Statista

What Are the Most Popular Subreddits?

Among the top 10 subreddits, common themes include humor, gaming, news, science and Reddit itself.

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Here’s the complete list of the top 10 most popular subreddits ranked by the number of subscribers:

SubredditSubscribers
r/funny56.6 million
r/AskReddit45 million
r/gaming39.5 million
r/aww35.4 million
r/worldnews34.9 million
r/todayilearned34.7 million
r/Music32.9 million
r/movies32.3 million
r/science31.5 million
r/pics30.5 million

Overall, more than 500 subreddits have over 1 million subscribers each.

Sources: Statista, Reddit

Time Spent Using Reddit

According to Reddit, newly registered Reddit users spend an average of 20 minutes per day on the platform. Among Reddit users who have been on the platform for over 5 years that increases to 35 minutes a day.

Registered users who’ve been on the platform for more than 7 years spend around 45 minutes a day on Reddit.

Source: Reddit

How Many Employees Does Reddit Have?

Reddit had 2,013 employees across the world as of December 2023. The vast majority of them (1,619) are based in the US.

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Reddit employee headcount has grown by 45.55% since 2021, when it had 1,383 employees.

We’ve charted the growth of Reddit’s employee headcount since 2021:

DateReddit Employees
December 20211,383
December 20221,942
December 20232,013

Source: Statista

Conclusion

That’s it for my roundup of Reddit user and revenue statistics. While Reddit is still smaller than some players in the social media space (like Facebook and Instagram), it’s growing.

Now, the company went public and it will be interesting to see how the social media platform evolves in the future.

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