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  1. For evidence of this, look no further than these text message statistics: 1. The vast majority (97%) of Americans have a mobile phone, 85% of which are smartphones. Additionally, over half of the global population (54%) owns a smartphone.

  2. Mar 19, 2024 · 292 million people exchanged texts in North America in 2022, 80% of the population. [7] 6 billion+ SMS messages are sent daily in the United States, with 97% of adults owning a compatible mobile device. [8] The U.S. actually trails much of the world in using feature-rich internet-based messaging apps regularly.

  3. Jul 23, 2024 · Over 26 billion text messages are sent worldwide every day. In 2020, U.S. adults were sending an average of 96 text messages per day. Texting is the most used data service in the world, with 18.7 billion messages sent daily. The average adult sends and receives around 94 text messages per day.

    • 98% of US adults own a cell phone. It is hardly surprising that in 2022, the vast majority of the US population owns some kind of phone which supports texting.
    • 98% of all text messages get opened. Statistics have shown that almost 100% of people open their text messages. That’s mostly because mobile texting uses push notifications as a default setting, making it easier for recipients to see the messages immediately.
    • Text messaging is still the most used form of mobile phone messaging. As many as 63% of users worldwide rely on the default texting app on their cell phones.
    • 95% of text messages are read and responded to in less than five minutes. We’ve become so attached to our mobile phones that they are always in our hands or very nearby.
  4. Number of text messages sent in the U.S. 2005-2021. In 2021, mobile users in the United States sent roughly 2 trillion SMS or MMS messages.

  5. Dec 12, 2023 · As of November 2021, it was found that the most popular online activity in the United States was text or instant messaging - overall, 92.3 percent of online users in the country used...

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  7. 1. Facebook Messenger. According to the latest data, Facebook Messenger is the most popular messaging app downloaded on the Google Play Store in the USA. This is no surprise, considering it also ranks among the most used messaging app globally, with an estimated one billion users.