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Monday, January 14, 2013

LinkedIn reaches 200 million members worldwide


Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — January 10, 2013 — LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network on the Internet, announced today that it has reached 200 million members. New members continue to join LinkedIn at a rate of two per second. The company has added more than 13 million members since its last announcement on November 1, 2012.

Since reaching 100 million members in March 2011, LinkedIn has added 13 new languages, making the site available in 19 languages. Today, LinkedIn counts more than 160 million unique monthly visitors and is the 23rd most visited Web property in the world.* Currently, more than 64% of LinkedIn members are located outside the United States. Over 37 million members are in Asia Pacific.

In a blog post (blog.linkedin.com) about the milestone, LinkedIn’s SVP of product & user experience, Deep Nishar, reflects on how the professional network has grown to 200 million members in over 200 countries and territories, and plans for continued growth in the future.


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