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Number of monthly active Telegram users worldwide from March 2014 to March 2025 (in millions)

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Release date

June 2025

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

March 2014 to March 2025

Supplementary notes

No data available for missing periods.

The figures have been rounded.

The statistic has been compiled from several announcements by the and its founder Pavel Durov (on ).

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As of March 2025, cloud-based mobile messaging app Telegram reported over * monthly active users worldwide. Telegram is a chat app launched in 2013 by the brothers Nikolai and Pavel Durov. The pair had previously founded the Russian social network VK, which they left when it was taken over by the Mail.ru Group.

In 2023, the majority of Telegram’s global audience, was comprised of users aged between 25 and 34 years. Among the reasons to use Telegram, ** percent of the platform’s users reported to learn the majority of the news from Telegram. After the announcement that WhatsApp was going to release a new privacy policy update was met with criticism in 2021, Telegram's audience and popularity spiked, bringing global downloads to *** million.

Telegram security criticism

Despite claiming to be more secure than other mainstream messengers such as Line or WhatsApp, Telegram has been frequently criticized by industry experts such as German consumer organization Stiftung Warentest or the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). One of the key points of criticism is Telegram’s failure to provide automatic end-to-end encryption (WhatsApp and LINE messenger have end-to-end encryption set up by default).