Rick Martin · · 2 min readIndia Continues to be LinkedIn’s Asia Stronghold, Passes 15 Million Users
LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) has been making a strong push into Asia of late, showing impressive growth over the past year and establishing new regional offices, most recently one in Hong Kong. But India remains by far the biggest stronghold for the professional social network, and the company has announced today that it has officially passed the 15 million user mark in the country [1].
Hari V. Krishnan, the country manager for LinkedIn India commented on the milestone:
We are delighted to reach the 15 million member milestone. It demonstrates that professional networking is becoming increasingly important to Indian professionals. In just three years we have scaled our operations in India and our member base has grown by over 300 percent. We attribute this growth to the tools we have developed that help professionals to stay connected, gain insights for their businesses, bag that dream job and ultimately, realize their professional potential.
Besides India, LinkedIn doesn’t really have any staggering user figures in any country in particular, but rather appears to have chipped away at the Asia Pacific market country by country, gradually building its user base. After India, the network appears to be most popular in Australia, China (although it still hasn’t ‘officially’ entered China), the Philippines, and Indonesia.
LinkedIn has also been making a push into the Japanese market over the past few months, launching a LinkedIn Navi website to explain how the service works to Japanese users.
[Via Business Standard, photo: Near Shore Journal]
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When we last looked at LinkedIn’s user numbers via its own ad creation tool a month ago, it indicated that the network already had 15 million users in India. But those figures might not be entirely accurate, so we’d rather defer to official numbers released by the company, as they have announced today. Nonetheless, the ad tool does show a good breakdown of how users are distributed across regions, so we’ll continue to make those figures available (see chart above) for that purpose – but with this disclaimer that they are likely not rock solid. ↩
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