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 15.5%. 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 Cuba42.7%
- 2 Iran39.5%
- 3 China (Mainland)39.4%
- 4 Sudan38.4%
Far more than most
19 storefronts- 5 Russia25.2%
- 6 Cocos (Keeling) Islands24.6%
- 7 Andorra24.4%
- 8 Mauritania24.4%
- 9 Brunei24.3%
- 10 Somalia24.1%
- 11 Barbados24.1%
- 12 São Tomé & Príncipe24.0%
- 13 Timor-Leste24.0%
- 14 Falkland Islands24.0%
- 15 St. Vincent & Grenadines23.9%
- 16 Norfolk Island23.8%
- 17 St. Helena23.8%
- 18 Eswatini23.7%
- 19 Lesotho23.7%
- 20 Anguilla23.6%
- 21 Montenegro23.6%
- 22 Christmas Island23.6%
- 23 Caribbean Netherlands23.5%
More than most
73 storefronts- 24 Samoa23.4%
- 25 Mongolia23.4%
- 26 Central African Republic23.4%
- 27 Burundi23.4%
- 28 Montserrat23.3%
- 29 Western Sahara23.3%
- 30 Palestinian Territories23.3%
- 31 Pitcairn Islands23.3%
- 32 Kiribati23.3%
- 33 Guernsey23.2%
- 34 Libya23.2%
- 35 Macao23.2%
- 36 Madagascar23.2%
- 37 Guyana23.1%
- 38 Equatorial Guinea23.1%
- 39 Nauru23.0%
- 40 Cook Islands23.0%
- 41 Malawi22.9%
- 42 Isle of Man22.8%
- 43 Ethiopia22.8%
- 44 Myanmar (Burma)22.8%
- 45 Bhutan22.7%
- 46 Jersey22.7%
- 47 Curaçao22.6%
- 48 Afghanistan22.6%
- 49 Comoros22.6%
- 50 Grenada22.5%
- 51 Tokelau22.5%
- 52 Belarus22.3%
- 53 Micronesia22.3%
- 54 Niue22.3%
- 55 Eritrea22.3%
- 56 Republic of the Congo22.2%
- 57 Tuvalu22.0%
- 58 Chad21.9%
- 59 Kosovo21.9%
- 60 Dominica21.8%
- 61 Gibraltar21.4%
- 62 St. Kitts & Nevis21.4%
- 63 Djibouti21.4%
- 64 Guinea21.3%
- 65 San Marino21.3%
- 66 Tonga21.2%
- 67 DR Congo21.1%
- 68 Seychelles21.0%
- 69 Gambia20.8%
- 70 St. Lucia20.7%
- 71 Suriname20.5%
- 72 Maldives20.3%
- 73 Iraq20.2%
- 74 Bermuda19.8%
- 75 Vanuatu19.8%
- 76 Monaco19.7%
- 77 Sierra Leone19.7%
- 78 Liberia19.6%
- 79 British Virgin Islands19.5%
- 80 Solomon Islands19.4%
- 81 Cayman Islands19.3%
- 82 Vatican City19.3%
- 83 Turks & Caicos Islands19.2%
- 84 Georgia19.0%
- 85 Vietnam18.0%
- 86 Cameroon17.8%
- 87 India17.6%
- 88 Yemen17.5%
- 89 Nigeria17.3%
- 90 Ghana16.9%
- 91 Rwanda16.9%
- 92 Ukraine16.7%
- 93 Liechtenstein16.6%
- 94 Niger16.6%
- 95 Togo16.2%
- 96 Lebanon16.1%
About typical
95 storefronts- 97 Kyrgyzstan16.1%
- 98 Guinea-Bissau15.9%
- 99 South Korea15.9%
- 100 Mozambique15.9%
- 101 Turkmenistan15.8%
- 102 Tanzania15.8%
- 103 Zimbabwe15.8%
- 104 Uganda15.7%
- 105 Pakistan15.7%
- 106 Burkina Faso15.6%
- 107 Algeria15.6%
- 108 Zambia15.6%
- 109 Qatar15.5%
- 110 Bangladesh15.5%
- 111 Uzbekistan15.5%
- 112 Fiji15.5%
- 113 Trinidad & Tobago15.5%
- 114 Benin15.4%
- 115 Aruba15.4%
- 116 Botswana15.4%
- 117 Côte d’Ivoire15.4%
- 118 North Macedonia15.3%
- 119 Nepal15.3%
- 120 Serbia15.3%
- 121 Philippines15.2%
- 122 Gabon15.2%
- 123 Oman15.2%
- 124 Mauritius15.2%
- 125 Senegal15.2%
- 126 Mali15.1%
- 127 Cyprus15.1%
- 128 Taiwan15.1%
- 129 Namibia15.0%
- 130 Egypt15.0%
- 131 Belize15.0%
- 132 Tunisia15.0%
- 133 Kazakhstan14.9%
- 134 Saudi Arabia14.8%
- 135 Moldova14.8%
- 136 Nicaragua14.8%
- 137 Bulgaria14.8%
- 138 Sri Lanka14.8%
- 139 Haiti14.8%
- 140 Cape Verde14.8%
- 141 Azerbaijan14.7%
- 142 Venezuela14.7%
- 143 Paraguay14.7%
- 144 Kenya14.7%
- 145 Armenia14.6%
- 146 Angola14.6%
- 147 Papua New Guinea14.4%
- 148 Jordan14.4%
- 149 Hong Kong14.4%
- 150 Tajikistan14.3%
- 151 Greece14.2%
- 152 Cambodia14.2%
- 153 Antigua & Barbuda14.1%
- 154 Malta14.1%
- 155 Lithuania14.1%
- 156 Latvia13.9%
- 157 Bahrain13.9%
- 158 Jamaica13.8%
- 159 Hungary13.8%
- 160 Indonesia13.8%
- 161 Croatia13.8%
- 162 Slovenia13.7%
- 163 Uruguay13.6%
- 164 Bahamas13.6%
- 165 Laos13.6%
- 166 Guatemala13.6%
- 167 Kuwait13.6%
- 168 Japan13.5%
- 169 Honduras13.5%
- 170 Argentina13.5%
- 171 Albania13.5%
- 172 Bosnia & Herzegovina13.4%
- 173 Thailand13.4%
- 174 El Salvador13.3%
- 175 Türkiye13.3%
- 176 Czechia13.3%
- 177 Malaysia13.3%
- 178 Estonia13.3%
- 179 South Africa13.3%
- 180 Bolivia13.3%
- 181 Dominican Republic13.1%
- 182 Ecuador13.1%
- 183 Poland13.0%
- 184 Iceland12.9%
- 185 Peru12.9%
- 186 Slovakia12.8%
- 187 Brazil12.8%
- 188 Romania12.7%
- 189 Morocco12.7%
- 190 Costa Rica12.7%
- 191 Israel12.7%
Fewer than most
26 storefronts- 192 Denmark12.6%
- 193 Norway12.5%
- 194 New Zealand12.4%
- 195 Colombia12.4%
- 196 United Arab Emirates12.4%
- 197 Sweden12.2%
- 198 Austria12.1%
- 199 Luxembourg12.1%
- 200 Chile12.0%
- 201 Panama12.0%
- 202 Singapore11.9%
- 203 Finland11.7%
- 204 Australia11.3%
- 205 Portugal11.3%
- 206 Germany11.1%
- 207 Mexico11.0%
- 208 Netherlands10.8%
- 209 Belgium10.8%
- 210 Switzerland10.7%
- 211 Ireland10.6%
- 212 Canada9.6%
- 213 Italy9.4%
- 214 Spain9.4%
- 215 United Kingdom9.0%
- 216 France8.1%
- 217 United States3.2%
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 15.5%.