As per the latest data released by Sensor Tower, Telegram became the world’s most downloaded non-gaming app in January 2021, with more than 63 million installations, 3.8 times its downloads in January 2020.
The countries with the highest number of Telegram installations is India at 24%, followed by Indonesia at 10%.
Tiktok came at second position and another messaging app Signal came at third position.
In the total non-gaming downloads on Google Play Store, Telegram has attained the first place, moving from 9th position in the previous month, December 2020.
The messaging app has also been enlisted to the App Store list of the top 10 most downloaded (non-gaming) apps.