67% of all Google Play revenue comes from outside the U.S.

67 percent of all revenue generated by Google Play comes from outside the U.S. according to Chris Yerga, Google’s engineering director for Google Play.

Yerga shared the numbers as part of his presentation Android Apps in Google Play, during the I/O conference in San Francisco today, emphasizing how revenues have increased in countries like Japan and Korea. Google Play revenue in the two countries increased 14 times year-over-year, largely thanks to carrier billing. 73 percent of users in Japan and Korea pay for apps through carrier billing.

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