📈 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)
The next emoji release will be Emoji 14.0 which is currently in draft.
World Emoji Awards
Each year on July 17, Emojipedia hosts the World Emoji Awards. The 2021 awards are currently underway, with the follows being awarded on World Emoji Day 2021.
- 🆕 Most Popular New Emoji. Any emoji approved in 2020 is eligible, determined by which is most used on Twitter.
- 👀 Most Anticipated Emoji. The emoji provisionally expected to be coming to platforms throughout 2022 (Cast your vote now! 🗳️)
- 🗓 Most 2021 Emoji: User-voted bracket to determine which emoji best represents 2021. (Cast your vote via this Twitter thread! 🐦)
- 🏅 Lifetime Achievement. Awarded to a member of most used of all emoji, old or new.
Recent Emoji Trends
Regarding emoji trends, recent analyses from Emojipedia have found that:
- 💕🆙 Based on 6.7 billion tweets over 10 years, emoji use has never been higher
- 🔝😭 Loudly Crying Face has dethroned 😂 Face with Tears of Joy as Twitter's top emoji
- 💉⏫ The use of the syringe emoji has been greatly increasing since December 2020
- 🥺⏫ Pleading Face experienced surging popularity
An Emojipedia analysis on emoji usage in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic found the following:
- ☺️📉 The relative use of positive smiley face emojis was on the decline (down 5.63%)
- 📊📈 The top ten emojis used on Twitter are relatively stable
- 🔝😂 Face with Tears of Joy was the most used emoji on Twitter
- 💕🆙 Emoji use as a whole continued to rise, with nearly one in five tweets containing at least one emoji
- 🤔🦠 The increase in emoji use was potentially slowed by our new normal, but its too soon to say this with certainty
- 😃👍 Smileys & People still dominated in terms popular emoji categories, while 🔣 Symbols are on the decline
- ✈️⤵️ Emojis in the Travel & Places category saw 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:
- 😂 Face with Tears of Joy
- 😭 Loudly Crying Face
- 🥺 Pleading Face
- ❤️ Red Heart
- 🤣 Rolling on the Floor Laughing
- ✨ Sparkles
- 😍 Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes
- 🙏 Folded Hands
- 🥰 Smiling Face with Hearts
- 😊 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
- 😲 Over one in five tweets now includes an emoji (20.69%)
- 💬 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
Emojipedia visitors are from, in order:
- 🇺🇸 USA
- 🇬🇧 UK
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- 🇮🇳 India
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- 🇵🇭 Philippines
- 🇫🇷 France
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands