📈 Emoji Statistics

Number of Emojis

In total there are 3,019 emojis in the Unicode Standard as of March 2019. This includes sequences for gender or skin tone, flags, and the components that are used to create keycap, flag, and other sequences.

Of the 3,019 emojis, some may use the same appearance. For example, 🏄 Person Surfing and 🏄‍♂️ Man Surfing look the same on most platforms.

An additional 168 emojis have been approved for release in late 2019 which brings the total to 3,178 emojis in Emoji 12.1.

Emoji Popularity: Unicode

Unicode has worked with vendors to rank the most popular emojis in current use. As of October 2019 these were:

• 😂 Face With Tears of Joy
• ❤️ Red Heart
• 😍 Smiling Face With Heart-Eyes
• 🤣 Rolling on the Floor Laughing
• 😊 Smiling Face With Smiling Eyes
• 🙏 Folded Hands
• 💕 Two Hearts
• 😭 Loudly Crying Face
• 😘 Face Blowing a Kiss
• 👍 Thumbs Up

Emoji Popularity: Emojipedia

The most popular emojis on Emojipedia in 2018, as measured by page views, were:

• 😂 Face With Tears of Joy
• ❤️ Red Heart
• 😍 Smiling Face With Heart-Eyes
• 🤔 Thinking Face
• 🔥 Fire
• 😊 Smiling Face With Smiling Eyes
• 😘 Face Blowing a Kiss
• 👍 Thumbs Up
• 🥰 Smiling Face With Hearts

Emojipedia pages include Google Trends intregation which show the relative popularity of emojis in search terms over time. Other emoji statistics resources include:

• 🐦 Twitter: emojitracker
• 🛫 Telegram: @EmojiStatsBot

Emoji Usage

• 💬 5 billion emojis are sent daily on Facebook Messenger
• 📸 By mid-2015, half of all comments on Instagram included an emoji 
• 🍑 Only 7% of people use the peach emoji as a fruit
  • The rest mostly use it as a butt or for other non-fruit uses

Emojipedia

• 📍 Founded: 2013
• 👀 Average monthly page views: 33 million
• 📥 Emoji Wrap email subscribers: 17,000

Emojipedia visitors are from, in order:

• 🇺🇸 USA
• 🇬🇧 UK
• 🇨🇦 Canada
• 🇦🇺 Australia
• 🇮🇳 India
• 🇩🇪 Germany
• 🇵🇭 Philippines
• 🇫🇷 France
• 🇧🇷 Brazil
• 🇳🇱 Netherlands