Infographic: Adoption of Facebook Messenger growing worldwide

Despite widespread panic over privacy concerns, a new infographic from GlobalWebIndex shows that the adoption of Facebook Messenger continues to grow in many countries. This may be somewhat unsurprising, given that Facebook has unbundled messaging from the main app and pushed that feature into its Messenger app.

GlobalWebIndex notes that Facebook Messenger is now the world’s second-most-popular messaging app, behind another Facebook entity — WhatsApp. In the U.K., the percentage of mobile users with Facebook Messenger rose from 27 percent at the end of 2013 to 40 percent midway through 2014.

Here’s a look at Facebook Messenger’s top markets internationally, ranked by the share of mobile audience.

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