TikTok is an online video-sharing social networking service which lets people create short videos that can range from 3 seconds to 10 minutes. TikT
TikTok is an online video-sharing social networking service which lets people create short videos that can range from 3 seconds to 10 minutes.
TikTok videos can be about any topic ranging from entertainment, sports, politics, world news, and technology. The video-sharing network service is almost part of many young people’s lives as it is their source of entertainment and also a perfect place for them to learn whatever is transpiring in the world.
The social media application is so popular in countries like the UK, the USA, Canada, Indonesia, France, South Korea, Brazil and Germany.
In Africa, TikTok has many users with almost every country across the continent having many users although sources say they do not pay content creators on the continent.
Egypt has been crowned as the country with the most users of the application with 37 million citizens using it. It is the highest in Africa.
Nigeria comes in second place with 23.84 million users. South Africa has 17 million users of TikTok and sits third in the rankings. Algeria has 17.42m users and is ranked 4th while Morocco with 12.4M users completes the Top 5.
Ghana is the second highest users of the TikTok app in West Africa and is 7th on the continent with 7.4M users
Indonesia has the most TikTok users across the globe. On January 18, 2025, TikTok was banned temporarily in the United States much to the annoyance of many Americans. It was restored in the morning.
Top 10 countries in Africa with the estimated number of TikTok users in 2024:
1. Egypt: 32.94M
2. Nigeria: 27.39M
3. South Africa: 17.46M
4. Algeria: 17.42M
5. Morocco: 12.41M
6. Kenya: 10.6M
7. Ghana: 7.4M
8. Uganda: 5.5M
9. Tunisia: 5.32M
10. Libya: 4.95M
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