China Mobile App Market Statistics 2023 for Android

With a population approaching 1.4 billion people, China is the world’s largest and most lucrative mobile app market. Even more impressive is the fact that nearly 500 million people across the country that Napoleon Bonaparte referred to as the “Sleeping Giant” actively use third-party app stores, with the Android store being by far the most popular. While tech titans like Huawei, Xiaomi, and Alibaba lead the way, other developers, like 360 Mobile Security Limited and PinGuo Inc., have garnered world-wide popularity.

In this article, we provide a number of detailed app statistics and insights from the China Android app market. We cover a number of topics, including how many Chinese app publishers are active on Google Play, how many apps they have released, and how Chinese apps have performed compared to the global average. The data is aggregated based on address, meaning only app publishers with valid Chinese addresses listed on Google Play have been considered.