Angry Birds Fling Past Half-a-Billion Downloads

500 million downloads

That’s just mind-boggling. But to give it some perspective, roughly 1 out of every 14 people on the planet have downloaded an Angry Birds app.

Angry Birds is the #1 app in 79 countries

Again, by perspective, Apple’s AppStore is openly available in 102 countries, that I can find. Angry Birds is the #1 app in over 77% of “Apple-applicable” countries

Users have played 266 billion levels

On average, each person on Earth has played 38 levels, which is more than Chapter 1 of Poached Eggs.

Users have flung 400 billion birds

By comparison, bird experts (as in ornithologists, not manu malin) estimate the aviary population of the world to be around 100 billion birds.

Users have collected 44 billion stars

There are roughly 200 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, so for every 4 or 5 stars in the Galaxy, a user has earned a star in Angry Birds.

Users log about 300 million minutes of gametime daily

That’s over 570 years of gameplay each day. By comparison, the Blarney Stone was set into the Blarney Castle (Country Cork, Ireland) in 1446 — 565 years ago.

Users have logged 200,000 years of gameplay on Angry Birds

By comparison, the earliest Homo sapiens that are known originated in east Africa at most 200,000 years ago.