How many monthly active users did Telegram have as of March 2024?

Telegram had 900 million monthly active users as of March 2024.

The milestone was reported in March 2024, when Telegram’s user base passed 900 million monthly active users. This marked rapid growth from 800 million in 2023 and 700 million in June 2022.

Telegram’s expansion accelerated during periods of controversy or disruption affecting rival messaging platforms. It reached about 500 million monthly active users in January 2021, helped partly by a surge of new sign-ups following WhatsApp’s privacy-policy controversy. Telegram was founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov in 2013 and initially built its reputation around speed, large groups, cloud synchronization, and privacy-focused features.

A common mix-up is confusing monthly active users with downloads, registered accounts, or daily active users. The March 2024 figure measured people active during a month, not the total number of accounts ever created. Telegram later reported about 950 million monthly active users in July 2024 and more than 1 billion in 2025.