ASEAN Social Media Users
92% of ASEAN social
media users access social
media via mobile phone. 1
The longest average daily
time spent using social media
in Southeast Asia: 1
1 Philippines
2 Indonesia
3 Thailand
3 hrs 57 mins
3 hrs 23 mins
3 hrs 10 mins
24
2 Laos
3 Myanmar
22
15
39
36% of which
are Indonesian
(130 million)
and almost 19% are
Philippines citizens
(67 million).
21
24
12
14
63
55% of the ASEAN population are
active social media users (360 million) 1
43%
33%
29%
1 Cambodia
Highest growth of the
active social media users
in Southeast Asia from
Jan 2017 to Jan 2018: 1
56
14
50
53
7
7
8
29
73
62
18
59
52
41
37
73% to
Activities of
Facebook users
in Vietnam: 8
update news
Percentage of population
above 15 years old that make
online purchases and/or
pays bill online 1
HIGHEST
28%
Singapore
LOWEST
0.6%
Cambodia
90% respondents in Indonesia,
Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand,
and Vietnam made a purchase
using social media or were
influenced by it. 4
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24% to
play games
sell items
48% respondents in Vietnam use
social media sites daily for news. 9
81%
18-29 y.o.
44%
30-49 y.o.
3%
> 50 y.o.
1 We are Social and Hootsuite. The 2018 Global Digital Report, 2018. 2 ASEAN Secretariat. Celebrating ASEAN: 50 Years of Evolution and Progress, 2017.
3 Google and Temasek. E-Conomy SEA Spotlight 2017. 4 Bain & Company. Digital Acceleration in Southeast Asia: Navigating Tectonic Shifts, 2017.
5 Economist Intelligence Unit 2014. 6 World Economic Forum 2016. 7 EON. The Fifth Philippine Trust Index (PTI), 2017. 8 Asia Plus Inc. Online
market research Q&Me, 2017. 9 Pew Research Centre. Spring 2017 Global Attitudes Survey 2017. 10 Vietnamnet, 2018
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