Uber top ride-booking app in 108 countries
Company’s software is installed on 21 per cent of all Android devices in U.S.
As the battle for the world’s ridebooking customers heats up, here’s one statistic to consider: Uber is now the most-used taxi app in 108 countries.
That’s according to analytics provider SimilarWeb, which tracked the reach and usage of ride-bookingapps in 171 countries on Android devices. Uber is the most dominant player in broad swaths of the globe, including all of North America and much of Europe, Africa and South America.
San Francisco-based Uber has a particularly big lead in the U.S., where the app is installed on 21 per cent of all Android devices, compared with just under 3 per cent for its main domestic competitor Lyft, according to SimilarWeb. Australia has also proven to be a strong market for Uber, with 13 per cent of Android users in the country having installed the app.
The one region where Uber has struggled is Asia, where local operators have held ground. Earlier this month, chief executive officer Travis Kalanick ceded the world’s biggest ride-hailing market, announcing that he was selling the startup’s China operations to Didi.
In India, Uber also fell short of Ola, even after Uber said last year that it would spend $1 billion (U.S.) to gain its footing in the country. Ola has been installed on 20 per cent of India’s Android devices, giving the Bangalore-based company twice the reach of Uber.
SimilarWeb tracked only countries in which at least 1 per cent of all Android devices had a particular ride-hailing app installed, bringing the total number of countries the company analyzed to 171.