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Facebook starts rolling out in Spanish

By Andrew Redfern @ 8th February 2008 12:08 pm

This is big news on the Facebook front, not so much the rolling out in another language but the method in which it was done. The entire site was translated by it’s user community.

I found the following quote and a pretty useful country by country breakdown over at the InsideFacebook blog :

“Over 60 percent of Facebook users are now outside of the U.S., and many live in countries where English is not the primary language,” said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a statement. With over 64 million members, that puts over 38 million outside the US. Here’s a breakdown of where Facebook users live, by country:

Canada     8,724,260
United Kingdom     8,680,900
Turkey     2,848,020
Australia     2,347,200
France     1,279,920
Sweden     1,095,440
Norway     1,067,540
Colombia     777,960
South Africa     732,660
Mexico     648,360
Egypt     612,720
India     540,820
Germany     481,880
Finland     429,840
Israel     427,940
Singapore     421,240
Denmark     409,800
Spain     333,040
New Zealand     312,280
Malaysia     296,700
United Arab Emirates     286,820
Belgium     258,340
Lebanon     252,060
Italy     239,560
Ireland     228,900
Switzerland     221,100
Saudi Arabia     202,020
Greece     184,300
Netherlands     181,700
Pakistan     179,600
China     170,620
Jordan     150,220
Japan     142,180
Venezuela     137,100
Thailand     115,600
Philippines     112,340
Indonesia     111,620
Chile     106,960
Panama     105,620
Argentina     96,620
Austria     81,860
Korea, Republic of     75,860
Kuwait     69,980
Peru     68,200
Russian Federation     64,160
Dominican Republic     53,020

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