📈 Emoji Statistics

Number of Emojis

In total there are 3,521 emojis in the Unicode Standard as of October 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 13.1. (Source: Unicode)

World Emoji Awards

Each year on July 17, Emojipedia hosts the World Emoji Awards. In 2020, these will reveal:

• 🏆📈 Most Popular New Emoji. Any emoji approved in 2019 is eligible, determined by which is most used on Twitter.
  • 🥇 1st Place: 🤍 White Heart  
  • 🥈 2nd Place: 🥱 Yawning Face
  • 🥉 3rd Place: 🤎 Brown Heart
• 🗳🤗 Most Anticipated Emoji. The emoji coming to platforms throughout 2020, determined by popular vote:
  • 🥇 1st Place: Smiling Face With Tear
  • 🥈 2nd Place: Transgender Flag
  • 🥉 3rd Place: Pinched Fingers
• 🦠✊🏿 Most 2020 Emoji. User-voted bracket to determine which emoji best represents 2020:
  • Winner: ✊🏿 Raised Fist: Dark Skin Tone
  • Runner up: 🦠 Microbe

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 10 emojis used on Twitter across 2020 were:

1. 😂 Face with Tears of Joy
2. 😭 Loudly Crying Face
3. 🥺 Pleading Face
4. ❤️ Red Heart
5. 🤣 Rolling on the Floor Laughing
6. ✨ Sparkles
7. 😍 Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes
8. 🙏 Folded Hands
9. 🥰 Smiling Face with Hearts
10. 😊 Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes

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

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 (note: emojitracker does not track any emoji approved after 2016)
• 🛫 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
• Apple revealed the most used emojis on iOS in a 2017 report

Emojipedia

• 📍 Founded: 2013
• 👀 Average monthly page views: 50 million
• 📥 Emoji Wrap email subscribers: 18,000

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