Research. Consumer. Bookmarking. Future. Facebook Usage Still Rising in Europe, but UK Growth Slows. The Facebook juggernaut rolls on in Europe, but the first sign of declining growth rates has appeared.
In particular, the site’s meteoric expansion in the UK is tailing off. The social network gained more than 2.2 million active UK users in May 2010, according to Inside Facebook—an 8.9% rise that took total UK user numbers to 27.1 million on June 1. Growth was higher in the UK than anywhere else in Western Europe. By midsummer a different pattern was emerging. UN Comtrade - UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database.