📈 Emoji Statistics
Number of Emojis
In total there are 3,304 emojis in the Unicode Standard as of March 2020. This includes sequences for gender or skin tone, flags, and the components that are used to create keycap, flag, and other sequences. The latest emoji release is Emoji 13.0. (Source: Unicode)
Recent Emoji Trends
Regarding emoji trends, a recent Emojipedia analysis found the following:
- ☺️📉 The relative use of positive smiley face emojis is on the decline (down 5.63%)
- 🥺⏫ Pleading Face is experiencing surging popularity
- 📊📈 The top ten emojis used on Twitter are relatively stable
- 🔝😂 Face with Tears of Joy remains the most used emoji on Twitter
- 💕🆙 Emoji use as a whole continues to rise, with nearly one in five tweets now containing at least one emoji
- 🤔🦠 The increase in emoji use has been potentially slowed by our new normal, but its too soon to say this with certainty
- 😃👍 Smileys & People still dominate in terms popular emoji categories, while 🔣 Symbols are on the decline
- ✈️⤵️ Emojis in the Travel & Places category have seen larger than usual decreases recently, possibly due to travel restrictions
See also: Coronavirus-related emoji trends.
Emoji Popularity: Twitter
According to an Emojipedia analysis, the top 13 emojis used on Twitter in April 2020 were:
- 😂 Face with Tears of Joy
- 😭 Loudly Crying Face
- 🥺 Pleading Face
- 🤣 Rolling on the Floor Laughing
- ❤️ Red Heart
- ✨ Sparkles
- 😍 Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes
- 🙏 Folded Hands
- 😊 Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes
- 🥰 Smiling Face with Hearts
- 👍 Thumbs Up
- 💕 Two Hearts
- 🤔 Thinking Face
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
- 😲 One in five tweets now includes an emoji (19.04%)
- 💬 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: 35 million
- 📥 Emoji Wrap email subscribers: 18,000
Emojipedia visitors are from, in order:
- 🇺🇸 USA
- 🇬🇧 UK
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- 🇮🇳 India
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- 🇵🇭 Philippines
- 🇫🇷 France
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands