A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about WhatsApp in India — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. WhatsApp has an estimated audience of 18,054,892 people in India.
The average WhatsApp fan in India is 30.9 years old, more male, and lives primarily in Maharashtra.
The audience is concentrated in Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat.
Top brand affinities include Instant messaging, X, Rajasthan Royals, with strongest over-indexing on Instant messaging (1.99× the country average).
Demographically, the WhatsApp audience skews more male with an average age of 30.9, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Social Media Usage, Career Orientation.
Compared to the country baseline, this audience shows distinctive patterns across 20 brand affinities and 29 regions tracked by Rascasse.
The typical WhatsApp fan in India is more male, around 30.9 years old, with strong Social Media Usage tendencies and a notable affinity for Instant messaging.
The key figures that characterise the WhatsApp profile in India.
26.9% are female, 73.1% are male, average age 30.9.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Female | 26.9% |
| Male | 73.1% |
| Average age | 30.9 |
| Estimated audience size | 18,054,892 |
| Age bracket | Share | % |
|---|---|---|
| 16-19 | 38% | |
| 20-29 | 29% | |
| 30-39 | 16% | |
| 40-49 | 10% | |
| 50+ | 7% |
of the worldwide WhatsApp audience comes from India.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| China | 7.5% |
| United States | 4.3% |
| Brazil | 4.1% |
Where the WhatsApp audience in India is strongest.
| # | Region | Reach | Affinity | × |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Tamil Nadu | ~600K | 1.47× | |
| 02 | Maharashtra | ~1M | 1.39× | |
| 03 | Gujarat | ~700K | 1.36× | |
| 04 | Andhra Pradesh | ~300K | 1.36× | |
| 05 | Madhya Pradesh | ~400K | 1.27× | |
| 06 | Chhattisgarh | ~100K | 1.24× | |
| 07 | Telangana | ~300K | 1.20× | |
| 08 | Haryana | ~300K | 1.19× | |
| 09 | Karnataka | ~500K | 1.16× | |
| 10 | Bihar | ~400K | 1.16× | |
| 11 | Rajasthan | ~500K | 1.15× | |
| 12 | Uttar Pradesh | ~1M | 1.14× | |
| 13 | West Bengal | ~600K | 1.10× | |
| 14 | Odisha | ~200K | 1.09× | |
| 15 | Punjab (region) | ~300K | 1.07× | |
| 16 | Uttarakhand | ~90K | 1.00× | |
| 17 | Himachal Pradesh | ~70K | 0.97× | |
| 18 | Assam | ~200K | 0.96× | |
| 19 | Jharkhand | ~100K | 0.86× | |
| 20 | Tripura | ~20K | 0.83× | |
| 21 | Kerala | ~200K | 0.82× | |
| 22 | Goa | ~10K | 0.80× | |
| 23 | Sikkim | ~6K | 0.74× | |
| 24 | Jammu and Kashmir | ~60K | 0.70× | |
| 25 | Meghalaya | ~10K | 0.66× | |
| 26 | Manipur | ~10K | 0.64× | |
| 27 | Mizoram | ~7K | 0.60× | |
| 28 | Nagaland | ~7K | 0.57× | |
| 29 | Arunachal Pradesh | ~6K | 0.53× |
The strongest cross-interests of the WhatsApp audience — brands, topics and people combined.
| # | · | Interest | Category | Affinity | × |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Instant messaging | Internet & Social Media | 1.99× | ||
| 02 | Staff Selection Commission | Politics & Society | 1.80× | ||
| 03 | UEFA Champions League | Sports | 1.77× | ||
| 04 | X | Internet & Social Media | 1.71× | ||
| 05 | Telangana | Travel & Leisure | 1.71× | ||
| 06 | Premier League | Sports | 1.70× | ||
| 07 | Videotelephony | Technology & Electronics | 1.65× | ||
| 08 | Pakistan national cricket team | Sports | 1.63× | ||
| 09 | Vijay (actor) | Movies & TV | 1.63× | ||
| 10 | STAR Sports | Movies & TV | 1.62× | ||
| 11 | ICC Champions Trophy | Sports | 1.62× | ||
| 12 | Telugu language | Politics & Society | 1.60× | ||
| 13 | Colors (TV channel) | Movies & TV | 1.59× | ||
| 14 | Stockbroker | Business & Career | 1.58× | ||
| 15 | Market trend | Business & Career | 1.56× | ||
| 16 | Chennai | Travel & Leisure | 1.55× | ||
| 17 | Internet & Social Media | 1.53× | |||
| 18 | England cricket team | Sports | 1.51× | ||
| 19 | Rajasthan Royals | Sports | 1.50× | ||
| 20 | Cricket World Cup | Sports | 1.50× |
Values above 1.00× are above the country average, values below 1.00× below it.
| Trait | Cluster | Deviation | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Media Usage | JOY | 1.43× | |
| Career Orientation | POWER | 1.22× | |
| Need for Security | CONSERVATISM | 1.15× |
| Trait | Cluster | Deviation | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price Sensitivity | PREMIUM | 0.87× | |
| Sustainability | BALANCE | 0.88× | |
| Sports Activity | POWER | 0.89× |
WhatsApp has an estimated audience of 18,054,892 people in India, concentrated in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.
26.9% of WhatsApp fans are female, 73.1% are male, with an average age of 30.9 years.
WhatsApp fans show strongest brand affinity for Instant messaging (1.99×), X (1.71×), and Rajasthan Royals (1.5×) over the country average.
WhatsApp fans in India are most concentrated in Maharashtra (reach ~1M), Uttar Pradesh (reach ~1M), and Gujarat (reach ~700K). These three regions account for the largest share of the active audience.
Beyond WhatsApp itself, the audience over-indexes on X (1.71×), Rajasthan Royals (1.5×), Chennai (1.55×), and Telugu language (1.6×) compared to the India average.
Related profiles, rankings and the same audience in other markets.
Audience size is the estimated number of people in India who actively search for WhatsApp. Affinity is an over-index ratio: 2.0× means the audience is twice as likely to engage with that brand or trait as the country average. Reach is the estimated number of audience members in a region. Regional and brand-affinity tables are sorted from strongest signal to weakest.
This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across India. For methodology see methodology. Affinity values are over-index ratios vs. the country average (1.0 = baseline). Audience sizes are estimated, not measured.
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