📈 Emoji Statistics

Number of Emojis

In total there are 3,633 emojis in the Unicode Standard as of Septemebr 2021.

• 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 14.0. (Source: Unicode)World Emoji AwardsEach year on July 17, Emojipedia hosts the World Emoji Awards. The 2021 awards were as follows:
  • 🆕 Most Popular New Emoji. Any emoji approved in 2020 is eligible, determined by which is most used on Twitter. Awarded to ❤️‍🔥 Heart on Fire.
  • 👀 Most Anticipated Emoji. The emoji provisionally expected to be coming to platforms throughout 2022. Awarded to Melting Face.
  • 🗓 Most 2021 Emoji: User-voted bracket to determine which emoji best represents 2021. Awarded to 💉 Syringe.
  • 🏅 Lifetime Achievement. Awarded to a member of most used of all emoji, old or new. Awarded to 😭 Loudly Crying Face.
  • Recent Emoji TrendsRegarding 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
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      • 🔝😂 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:

      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 EyesEmoji Popularity: UnicodeUnicode 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: @EmojiStatsBotEmoji 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

Source: Emojipedia