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The statistic shows the monthly average in-app purchase amount spent per gaming app user worldwide as of ***, by platform. It was found that Android device owners spent an average of **** U.S. dollars making in-app gaming purchases, compared to the U.S. dollars spent by iOS device owners.

In-game purchasing – additional information

In-game purchases have become one of the fastest growing monetization methods for game and gaming app makers in recent years. In-game consumer spending worldwide amounted to ** billion U.S. dollars in 2015 and is projected to increase by ** percent to ** billion U.S. dollars in 2020. Globally, as of mid-2016, iOS users were more likely to make in-game purchases, with more than **** percent of users doing so on a monthly basis, about *** percent more than Android users.

The mobile market is no stranger to in-app purchasing, either. Nearly *** percent of mobile users in North America were reported to have made in-app purchases as of ***. What is more, in the United States, forecasts show that in-game mobile gaming revenue is expected to reach nearly *** billion U.S. dollars by the end of 2016, up from the **** billion generated three years earlier.

The majority of money spent on in-game purchases in the U.S. was invested in entering a new level or gaining more lives, each accounting for ** percent of in-game spending. In 2015, Game of War – Fire Age held the top spot in average annual in-game spending of mobile gamers in the United States with about *** U.S. dollars, followed by Big Fish Casino Free Slots with around *** U.S. dollars and Summoners War with more than *** U.S. dollars.