Pokemon Go Player Count and Stats (2023)
Last Updated on: May 22nd, 2023
Pokemon Go Player Count and Other Stats
Here are the most interesting Pokemon Go statistics I was able to dig up so far including how many people play the mobile game, with much more to come soon. As always, be sure to check back in the future as I will be updating this post as new and updated stats become available.
Pokemon Go player count:
Last updated 4/4/17
How many people play Pokemon Go monthly?
147 million monthly active players
Last updated May 2018
Estimated number of Pokemon Go downloads to date:
Last updated 6/6/22
Number of Pokemon Go players in the US:
Last updated 6/6/22
Total revenue for Pokemon Go:
$6 billion in total player spending
Last updated 6/6/22
Pokemon Go revenue from Android devices:
Last updated 6/6/22
Pokemon Go revenue from iOS devices:
Last updated 6/6/22
Pokemon Go total installs on Android devices:
Last updated 6/6/22
Pokemon Go total installs on iOS devices:
Last updated 6/6/22
Average amount of Pokemon Go revenue per day since release:
Last updated 4/3/19
Percentage of Pokemon Go revenue that has come from the US:
Last updated 7/6/21
Percentage of Pokemon Go revenue that has come from Japan:
Last updated 7/6/21
Number of friend connections that have been made on Pokemon Go:
Last updated 9/11/18
Percentage of Android devices in the US that have Pokemon Go installed on them:
Last updated 7/13/16
Percentage of US Android owners that use Pokemon Go daily:
Last updated 7/13/16
Amount of time Pokemon Go users spend in the app daily:
Last updated 8/2/16
Pokemon Go revenue (annual):
- 2022: $703 million
- 2021: $1.2 billion
- 2020: $1 billion
- 2019: $894 million
- 2018: $816 million
- 2017: $589 million
- 2016 (launch year): $832 million
(source)
Pokemon Go revenue (monthly):
- March 2020: $111 million
- August 2019: $176 million
- July 2019: $63.5 million
- May 2019: $55 million
- April 2019: $65 million
- March 2019: $67 million
- February 2019: $57.4 million
- January 2019: $68.1 million
- December 2018: $75 million
- November 2018: $80 million
- October 2018: $73 million
- September 2018: $84.8 million
Pokemon Go revenue in H1 2021:
Estimated amount Pokemon Go made in its first day:
between $3.9 million-$4.9 million
Estimated amount of revenue Pokemon Go generates daily:
Last updated 11/1/16
Pokemon Go 2021 In-Game Stats:
What are the Rarest Pokemon to find in Pokemon Go:
Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, Ditto, Mew and Mewtwo
Last updated 7/18/16
Percentage of Pokemon Go players that are between the ages of 18-34:
Last updated 7/26/16
What is the Largest Pokemon Go demographic:
Last updated 7/26/16
Pokemon Go had more first week downloads from the Apple App Store than any other app in history.
Number of days it took Pokemon Go to cross 50 million worldwide downloads:
Increase in steps that Pokemon Go players take now versus before they started playing it:
Last updated 10/12/16
Number of steps Pokemon Go players have taken playing it:
Last updated 10/12/16
Pokemon Go was the fastest mobile game to earn $600 million in revenue (90 days).
Pokemon Go accounted for 45% of all time spent with Android games in Q3 2016!
Number of Pokemon that Pokemon Go users have caught:
Last updated 2/28/17
Number of visits Pokemon Go has driven to sponsored locations:
Last updated 11/14/17
Number of sponsored locations for Pokemon Go:
Last updated 2/28/17
Estimated number of traffic accidents that have been caused by people playing Pokemon Go:
Last updated 11/28/17
How many Pokemon are there in Pokemon Go?
Last updated 12/6/17
Reported amount that Pokemon Go made Nintendo in profit in 2016:
Rumored amount that sponsors pay Niantic for Pokemon Go sponsored locations:
Last updated 3/31/17
Most popular Pokemon go Team (based on Social Media mentions):
Last updated 7/15/16
Second most popular Pokemon go Team (based on Social Media mentions):
Last updated 7/15/16
Scientific explanation for Team Mystic being the most popular Pokemon Go team choice:
Number of new Pokemon added to Pokemon Go in generation 2:
Amount of time it took Pokemon Go to reach the top of the highest-grossing app chart in the US:
Amount Nintendo’s market value increased the first 5 days after Pokemon Go was launched:
Number of Pokemon-themed playlists that have popped up on Spotify:
Percentage of Australian Android owners that use Pokemon Go daily:
Last updated 7/13/16
Percentage of New Zealand Android owners that use Pokemon Go daily:
Last updated 7/13/16
Percentage of Android devices in Australia that have Pokemon Go installed on them:
Last updated 7/13/16
Percentage of Android devices in New Zealand that have Pokemon Go installed on them:
Last updated 7/13/16
Number of countries Pokemon Go now has users in:
Last updated 9/5/16
Number of markets Niantic wants to bring Pokemon Go to:
Last updated 7/22/16
7 out of 10 people that download Pokemon Go return to the app the next day.
Last updated 7/15/16
Amount Pokemon Go earned between October 25-29, 2016 (during Halloween promotion):
$23.3 million (2.3x more than the prior week)
Spike in Pokemon Go usage during the Halloween promotion:
Average Pokemon Go revenue per daily active user:
Last updated 7/15/16
Reported amount that was invested by Nintendo and Google into developer of Pokemon Go:
Amount Pokemon Go is expected to generate for Apple in the first 24 months:
Last updated 7/21/16
Pokemon Go’s daily usage is twice as much on Android apps than the Facebook app.
Last updated 7/22/16
Number of McDonald’s in Japan that have been turned into sponsored Pokemon Go Gyms:
Last updated 7/22/16
Number of people that interacted on a Facebook post about Pokemon Go to date:
Last updated 7/19/16
Number of interactions (posts/reactions/comments/shares) on Facebook posts about Pokemon Go to date:
Last updated 7/19/16
Percentage of Pokemon Go monthly players that play it daily:
Last updated 6/30/15
Pokemon Go’s peak usage day (so far):
Last updated 4/3/17
Number of users on Pokemon Go’s busiest day (so far):
Last updated 4/3/17
Number of different Pokemon that are available to catch in Pokemon Go:
Last updated 7/24/16
Number of different Pokemon that have been caught in Pokemon Go:
Last updated 7/24/16
Percentage of Americans (Age 18-65) that have heard of Pokemon Go:
Last updated 8/26/16
Percentage of Pokemon Go users in Canada that skip their day-to-day activities to play it:
Last updated 7/26/16
Average amount of time male Pokemon Go players in Canada spend playing it daily:
Last updated 7/26/16
Average amount of time female Pokemon Go players in Canada spend playing it daily:
Last updated 7/26/16
First person to catch all 142 known Pokemon in the US:
40% of Pokemon Go users that spent money in it have not spent money in any other mobile game this year
Percentage of Pokemon Go users that are millennials:
Last updated 6/30/17
Percentage of Pokemon Go users that are Gen Xers:
Last updated 7/29/16
Percentage of Pokemon Go users that are men:
last updated 6/30/17
Percentage of Pokemon Go users that are women:
last updated 6/30/17
Increase in sales of portable battery packs for mobile devices from July 10-23, 2016 (right after Pokemon Go was released):
China and India are the only remaining countries from the top 5 most populous countries in the world that don’t have Pokemon Go.
Last updated 8/8/16
One in four people that downloaded Pokemon Go in Japan play it daily.
Last updated 8/4/16
Number of people that talked about Pokemon Go on Facebook and Instagram in July 2016:
Number of interactions on Facebook and Instagram posts about Pokemon Go in July 20-16:
Pokemon Go was the top trending Android game in the US in July 2016.
Number of Android Play Store downloads for Pokemon Go in July 2106:
Number of views the Pokemon Go subreddit received in the week following the game’s launch:
92 million views from 8 million unique users
Number of Japanese MacDonald’s that were turned into Pokemon Go Gyms and Pokestops:
Last updated 8/11/16
Spike in sales for MacDonald’s in Japan once it’s sponsorship of Pokemon Go was launched there:
Last updated 8/11/16
Number of traffic tickets Japanese police issued for Pokemon Go-connected offenses in the first 2 weeks after the game launched:
Estimated peak number of Pokemon Go users:
Last updated 8/25/16
Number of unique US visitors to the Pokemon Go app in July 2016:
Percentage of the total US mobile app population that visited Pokemon Go in July 2016:
Increase in sales of Pokemon-branded merchandise in July 2016:
Number of employees for Niantic, the maker of Pokemon Go:
Last updated 9/15/16
Estimated number of miles Pokemon Go players have walked playing the game:
Last updated 12/21/16
Estimated amount of calories Pokemon Go players have burned playing the game:
Last updated 9/8/16
Estimated number of pounds Pokemon Go players have lost playing the game:
Last updated 9/8/16
Reported number of bicycle and car accidents in Japan related to Pokemon Go usage:
Last updated 8/26/16
Average time for a Pokemon Go session currently:
Last updated 9/19/16
Average daily revenue for Pokemon Go at its peak:
Last updated 9/30/16
Average number of daily downloads for Pokemon Go:
Last updated 9/30/16
Percentage of Pokemon Go users that are between 16-25 years old:
Last updated 9/30/16
Number of Pokemon Go users in South Korea:
Last updated 1/29/17
Pokemon Go was the most downloaded iPhone app worldwide in 2016.
Percentage of Pokemon Go users that are 18 or younger:
last updated 6/30/17
Number of Pokemon caught in the 2017 Pokemon Go Travel event:
Percentage of Pokemon Go revenue that has come from the Google Play store:
Last updated 7/9/19
Percentage of Pokemon Go revenue that has come from the Apple App store:
Last updated 7/9/19
Total Pokemon Go revenue that has come from the US:
Last updated 7/6/20
Total Pokemon Go revenue that has come from Japan:
Last updated 7/9/19
Total Pokemon Go revenue that has come from Germany:
Last updated 7/9/18
Total Pokemon Go revenue that has come from the UK:
Last updated 7/9/18
Total Pokemon Go revenue that has come from Taiwan:
Last updated 7/9/18
Number of gifts that have been sent to friends on Pokemon Go:
Last updated 9/11/18
Average Pokemon Go daily revenue before the June 2018 ‘friends and trading’ update:
Average Pokemon Go daily revenue after the June 2018 ‘friends and trading’ update:
Amount that Pokemon Go live events generated in tourism revenue in 2019:
Amount that Pokemon Go live events generated in tourism revenue in 2022:
Revenue generated by Pokemon Go Fest 2020:
Revenue generated by Pokemon Go Fest 2021:
Number of Pokemon Go cheaters that have been punished since the beginning of 2020:
Last updated 2/24/20
Number of Pokemon Go cheaters that have been banned since the beginning of 2020:
Last updated 2/24/20
Number of Pokemon caught during Pokemon Go Fest 2022:
That’s all for now. Be sure to check back soon as we update all video game stats as soon as more are provided.
Pokemon Go Game Details
Here is pretty much everything you ever wanted to know about Pokemon Go.
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- Game Franchise(s):
- Pokemon
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- Game Developer(s):
- Niantic
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- Game Publisher(s):
- Niantic
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- Year Released:
- 2016
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- Available Platform(s):
- Mobile
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- Number of Players:
- Single-Player
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- Type(s) of Game:
- Location-Based Video Games
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Pokemon Go Description
See also: Amazing Pokemon Products You Can Actually Buy.
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock the past few years, you’ve likely heard of Pokemon Go. The augmented reality game from Nintendo based on the uber popular Pokemon franchise has been a hit right from launch with some crazy user stats. Pokemon players around the globe are walking around staring at their phones in search of a Pikachu to add to their Pokedex.
Pokemon Go was launched in July 2016, and saw some of the most amazing growth and engagement of any video game in history. Its peak has now passed, but is still amassing some amazing numbers.
What is Pokemon Go?
Now’s your chance to discover and capture the Pokémon all around you—so put your shoes on, step outside, and explore the world with Pokémon GO. You’ll join one of three teams and battle for the prestige and ownership of Gyms with your Pokémon at your side. (source)
Here is a complete list of Pokemon in Pokemon Go
Pokemon Go News
Here are all the most recent Pokemon Go news articles. We update game news daily, as it breaks, so be sure to check back often for the latest.
- Pokémon Go hit $34.7m in April, its lowest monthly sum in five years, 5/4/23
- Over 590 million people downloaded Pokémon GO, generating $4.5 billion in lifetime revenue, 9/27/22
- Pokémon Go reaches $4.5 billion in lifetime revenue, 9/28/22
- Pokémon Go’s new Season of Light starts Sept. 1, brings Cosmog to the game, 8/30/22
- Pokemon GO to host event for 2022 Pokemon World Championships, 8/11/22
