[Network Information Data View] The growth of the number of mobile applications (APPs) in China in 2019

　　By the end of December 2019, the number of apps monitored in China’s domestic market was 3.67 million, a decrease of 850,000 over the previous year, down 18.8%.

Cartography: China Netcom Liu Xiaolong

　　The number of apps in the top four categories of mobile applications (games, daily tools, e-commerce and life services) accounted for 57.9%, of which the number of games apps continued to lead, reaching 909,000, accounting for 24.7% of all apps, a decrease of 474,000 over the previous year; The number of daily tools, e-commerce and life service apps reached 514,000, 388,000 and 317,000 respectively, ranking second, third and fourth in the scale of mobile applications, accounting for 14.0%, 10.6% and 8.6% of all apps respectively. Other social and educational apps accounted for 42.1%.

Cartography: China Netcom Liu Xiaolong

　　By the end of December, the total distribution of on-shelf applications in China’s third-party application stores reached 950.2 billion times. Among them, the music and video category is the most prominent, with 129.4 billion downloads, ranking first; The ranking of social communication downloads rose from the third to the second, with 116.6 billion downloads; Games, daily tools and system tools ranked third, fourth and fifth with 113.9 billion times, 107.5 billion times and 106.3 billion times respectively. Among other applications, applications that have been downloaded more than 50 billion times include life service (82.6 billion times), news reading (76.1 billion times), e-commerce (59.3 billion times) and finance (52 billion times).