LinkedIn membership numbers

How many members does LinkedIn have?

On 28 October 2026, LinkedIn had more than 1.4 billion member accounts.

Source: LinkedIn Pressroom
Source: Microsoft Fiscal Year 2027 Q1 Earnings

Here are the LinkedIn member stats I’ve tracked. Some extra detail about the announcements (such as growth and revenue) are accessible via the links on the numbers in the table.

Microsoft stopped announcing exact membership growth numbers for LinkedIn after the platform reached 1 billion members. In late January 2025, an empty People search on LinkedIn returned “about 1,100,000,000 results”. LinkedIn no longer reports numbers on People searches, so we can’t use this method to see how many accounts there are.

Top 5 countries on LinkedIn by accounts.

On 28 October 2026, the countries with most LinkedIn members (not all will be active users) were:

🇺🇸  265M+ USA
🇮🇳  193M+ India
🇧🇷  103M+ Brazil
🇬🇧  48M+ UK
🇮🇩  41M+ Indonesia

Global membership by region:

• 427M+ Asia Pacific
• 450M+ Europe, Middle East & Africa
• 296M+ North America
• 233M+ South & Central America

Latest members map, via LinkedIn Pressroom:

See previous LinkedIn membership maps

LinkedIn performance over latest quarter.

• 10M+ members using LinkedIn AI-powered job search daily
• 25K customers using agentic hiring solutions
• 15% year on year increase in time spent viewing content in the feed
• 10% growth in LinkedIn Talent Solutions
• 25% year on year increase in paid video ads
• 63% year on year increase in ads featuring creators
• 121% year on year increase in Premium company pages

Every minute on LinkedIn:

• 110 people add a new role to their profile
• ~9K job applications are submitted
• 2M+ feed updates are viewed
• 19K+ connections are made
• ~119 hours of learning content is consumed

LinkedIn member growth to 1B accounts.

Here’s a graph of the above table from 600M accounts to 1B accounts (January 2019 to January 2024).

(I write “accounts” rather than “members” because I still think there are a lot of fake and duplicate accounts on the platform, so these numbers don’t represent the number of real people on LinkedIn.)

Microsoft stopped sharing exact numbers once LinkedIn reached 1B accounts, but growth is generally at around 25M per quarter.

How many active users are on LinkedIn?

The absolute number of members on LinkedIn doesn’t matter as much as the number of active members.

LinkedIn don’t publish details of active members across the whole platform but they do have to publish details about the activity of LinkedIn members in the European Union.

Using that information and doing some extrapolation means that we can make a decent approximation of the real number of active users.

I’ve put together the numbers in the table below via the Digital Services Act Transparency Report for August 2026 and the numbers reported via LinkedIn’s Pressroom.

Country	Monthly active	Total users	Proportion active
Belgium	1.9M	6M	32%
Czechia	0.8M	3M	27%
Denmark	1.5M	3M	50%
Finland	0.9M	2M	45%
France	12.6M	38M	33%
Ireland	1.2M	3M	40%
Italy	6.5M	26M	25%
Netherlands	5.4M	13M	42%
Poland	2.5M	9M	28%
Portugal	1.6M	6M	27%
Romania	1.0M	5M	20%
Spain	6.1M	25M	24%
Sweden	2.2M	6M	37%
Summary	44.2M	145M	30%

The above table shows the number of monthly active users in various EU countries during the period January 2026 and June 2026, along with the total number of users in those countries based on what the Pressroom reported in the middle of 2026. (I’m not reporting on all EU countries here, because only some of their total user figures are shown on the Pressroom map.)

Dividing the number of active users by the total number of users gives us the proportion of active users as a percentage per country.

The final line of the table summarises that there were 44.2M total active users out of the 145M total users, meaning an overall activity rate of 30%.

But what does active really mean? It’s hard to know. In the Transparency Report, LinkedIn uses the phrases “monthly average logged-in users” and “Monthly Active Recipients of the Service” without going into detail about what activity really means.

“Activity” might be as basic as saying that someone has logged in and spent a few seconds browsing the site, in which case it’s not much of a measure of anything important.

Why these numbers matter.

LinkedIn is still a great place to reach your audience without having to pay for ads, but good levels of free organic reach have been decreasing since 2023.

To buffer yourself from the decline of organic reach, it’s a good idea to build your audience now.