Which Google Play countries are missing the most widely-used apps
All 217 storefronts Google operates, ordered by the share of widely-used apps — 10,000+ user ratings worldwide, still on sale somewhere — that are unavailable in each. Both sides of that fraction are the apps we have tested in that storefront, so testing one harder does not inflate its figure. The typical storefront is missing 18.4%. Pick one to see which apps, and when they went.
What this ranking does not prove
A position in this list is a measurement, not a verdict. A storefront can be missing widely-used apps because they were removed, or because they were never published there, and this share does not distinguish the two — open a storefront to see which of its missing apps we actually watched leave. The middle of the table is flatter than its ends: a region-locked app is missing nearly everywhere, so about three-quarters of a typical storefront's share is a floor almost all of them stand on, and differences of a few places there mean very little.
Missing the most
4 storefronts- 1 Cuba44.1%
- 2 Iran42.8%
- 3 Sudan40.3%
- 4 China (Mainland)40.1%
Far more than most
62 storefronts- 5 Russia28.0%
- 6 São Tomé & Príncipe26.2%
- 7 Barbados26.2%
- 8 Somalia26.1%
- 9 Brunei26.1%
- 10 Cocos (Keeling) Islands26.0%
- 11 Burundi25.9%
- 12 Andorra25.9%
- 13 Lesotho25.9%
- 14 Norfolk Island25.9%
- 15 St. Vincent & Grenadines25.9%
- 16 Libya25.9%
- 17 Mauritania25.8%
- 18 Christmas Island25.8%
- 19 Timor-Leste25.8%
- 20 St. Helena25.8%
- 21 Central African Republic25.7%
- 22 Falkland Islands25.7%
- 23 Anguilla25.7%
- 24 Guernsey25.6%
- 25 Mongolia25.6%
- 26 Palestinian Territories25.5%
- 27 Pitcairn Islands25.4%
- 28 Eswatini25.4%
- 29 Nauru25.4%
- 30 Caribbean Netherlands25.4%
- 31 Madagascar25.3%
- 32 Equatorial Guinea25.3%
- 33 Malawi25.2%
- 34 Montserrat25.2%
- 35 Cook Islands25.2%
- 36 Jersey25.1%
- 37 Belarus25.1%
- 38 Samoa25.0%
- 39 Western Sahara25.0%
- 40 Curaçao25.0%
- 41 Isle of Man25.0%
- 42 Montenegro25.0%
- 43 Guyana25.0%
- 44 Myanmar (Burma)25.0%
- 45 Kiribati25.0%
- 46 Tuvalu24.9%
- 47 Macao24.8%
- 48 Bhutan24.8%
- 49 Ethiopia24.7%
- 50 Niue24.6%
- 51 Eritrea24.5%
- 52 Tokelau24.5%
- 53 Micronesia24.5%
- 54 Afghanistan24.5%
- 55 Republic of the Congo24.5%
- 56 Chad24.4%
- 57 Kosovo24.4%
- 58 Comoros24.2%
- 59 Grenada24.1%
- 60 Guinea24.0%
- 61 Djibouti24.0%
- 62 DR Congo23.9%
- 63 Dominica23.8%
- 64 San Marino23.7%
- 65 Seychelles23.6%
- 66 Gibraltar23.6%
More than most
106 storefronts- 67 St. Kitts & Nevis23.4%
- 68 Gambia23.2%
- 69 St. Lucia23.1%
- 70 Iraq23.1%
- 71 Suriname22.9%
- 72 Tonga22.7%
- 73 Sierra Leone22.6%
- 74 Vanuatu22.6%
- 75 Vatican City22.4%
- 76 Liberia22.3%
- 77 British Virgin Islands22.2%
- 78 Bermuda22.2%
- 79 Monaco22.1%
- 80 Cayman Islands22.1%
- 81 Maldives22.1%
- 82 Turks & Caicos Islands21.5%
- 83 Solomon Islands21.5%
- 84 Georgia21.4%
- 85 Cameroon20.9%
- 86 Yemen20.8%
- 87 Vietnam20.2%
- 88 Nigeria20.2%
- 89 Ukraine20.1%
- 90 Rwanda19.6%
- 91 India19.6%
- 92 Niger19.4%
- 93 Liechtenstein19.3%
- 94 Ghana19.3%
- 95 Kyrgyzstan19.1%
- 96 Togo18.9%
- 97 Mozambique18.9%
- 98 Algeria18.8%
- 99 Lebanon18.8%
- 100 Uganda18.7%
- 101 Uzbekistan18.7%
- 102 Zimbabwe18.7%
- 103 Turkmenistan18.7%
- 104 Benin18.6%
- 105 Tanzania18.6%
- 106 South Korea18.5%
- 107 Guinea-Bissau18.5%
- 108 Mali18.4%
- 109 Qatar18.4%
- 110 Pakistan18.4%
- 111 Bangladesh18.3%
- 112 Zambia18.2%
- 113 Côte d’Ivoire18.2%
- 114 Senegal18.2%
- 115 Trinidad & Tobago18.2%
- 116 Burkina Faso18.1%
- 117 Venezuela18.1%
- 118 Gabon18.0%
- 119 Aruba18.0%
- 120 Egypt17.9%
- 121 Botswana17.9%
- 122 North Macedonia17.9%
- 123 Cyprus17.9%
- 124 Nepal17.9%
- 125 Namibia17.8%
- 126 Serbia17.8%
- 127 Oman17.8%
- 128 Fiji17.8%
- 129 Kenya17.8%
- 130 Mauritius17.7%
- 131 Belize17.7%
- 132 Saudi Arabia17.7%
- 133 Kazakhstan17.6%
- 134 Tunisia17.6%
- 135 Azerbaijan17.6%
- 136 Cape Verde17.6%
- 137 Armenia17.6%
- 138 Jordan17.4%
- 139 Angola17.4%
- 140 Haiti17.3%
- 141 Taiwan17.3%
- 142 Philippines17.3%
- 143 Sri Lanka17.2%
- 144 Moldova17.2%
- 145 Nicaragua17.2%
- 146 Papua New Guinea17.2%
- 147 Greece17.1%
- 148 Tajikistan17.0%
- 149 Albania17.0%
- 150 Cambodia16.9%
- 151 Bulgaria16.9%
- 152 Malta16.9%
- 153 Slovenia16.7%
- 154 Croatia16.7%
- 155 Antigua & Barbuda16.7%
- 156 Paraguay16.7%
- 157 Türkiye16.7%
- 158 Lithuania16.6%
- 159 Bahrain16.6%
- 160 Bosnia & Herzegovina16.6%
- 161 Jamaica16.5%
- 162 Latvia16.5%
- 163 Hong Kong16.5%
- 164 Hungary16.5%
- 165 Estonia16.5%
- 166 Kuwait16.4%
- 167 Guatemala16.3%
- 168 Laos16.3%
- 169 Iceland16.3%
- 170 Morocco16.2%
- 171 Indonesia16.1%
- 172 Czechia16.1%
About typical
40 storefronts- 173 Honduras16.1%
- 174 Bolivia16.0%
- 175 El Salvador15.9%
- 176 Slovakia15.9%
- 177 South Africa15.8%
- 178 Romania15.8%
- 179 Bahamas15.7%
- 180 Israel15.7%
- 181 Poland15.7%
- 182 Dominican Republic15.7%
- 183 Argentina15.7%
- 184 Thailand15.7%
- 185 Ecuador15.6%
- 186 Uruguay15.6%
- 187 Brazil15.4%
- 188 Malaysia15.4%
- 189 Japan15.3%
- 190 Costa Rica15.3%
- 191 Denmark15.2%
- 192 Peru15.1%
- 193 Norway15.1%
- 194 Austria15.1%
- 195 Finland15.0%
- 196 Sweden15.0%
- 197 United Arab Emirates14.9%
- 198 Colombia14.9%
- 199 New Zealand14.7%
- 200 Chile14.7%
- 201 Luxembourg14.6%
- 202 Panama14.6%
- 203 Australia14.4%
- 204 Singapore14.3%
- 205 Portugal14.0%
- 206 Germany13.9%
- 207 Belgium13.9%
- 208 Switzerland13.8%
- 209 Ireland13.7%
- 210 Netherlands13.7%
- 211 Mexico13.5%
- 212 Spain12.9%
Fewer than most
5 storefronts- 213 Italy12.6%
- 214 United Kingdom12.2%
- 215 Canada12.1%
- 216 France10.9%
- 217 United States4.1%
Each row is the share of the widely-used apps we have tested in that storefront that are unavailable there. Open any figure to see the apps behind it. The typical storefront is missing 18.4%.