Which App Stores are missing the most widely-used apps
All 175 storefronts Apple 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 16.7%. 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
3 storefronts- 1 China (Mainland)47.9%
- 2 Afghanistan36.3%
- 3 Russia27.0%
Far more than most
44 storefronts- 4 Bosnia & Herzegovina23.8%
- 5 Morocco23.5%
- 6 Brunei22.9%
- 7 Latvia22.8%
- 8 Nauru22.8%
- 9 United Arab Emirates22.6%
- 10 Nepal21.9%
- 11 Libya21.4%
- 12 Belarus21.1%
- 13 Ukraine21.0%
- 14 Bahrain20.9%
- 15 Bulgaria20.9%
- 16 Armenia20.7%
- 17 Azerbaijan20.6%
- 18 Albania20.5%
- 19 Iraq20.5%
- 20 Tonga20.4%
- 21 Burkina Faso20.3%
- 22 Gabon20.2%
- 23 South Korea20.2%
- 24 Benin20.1%
- 25 Belgium20.1%
- 26 Bermuda20.1%
- 27 Barbados19.7%
- 28 Anguilla19.7%
- 29 Antigua & Barbuda19.7%
- 30 Myanmar (Burma)19.6%
- 31 Bhutan19.6%
- 32 Hong Kong19.5%
- 33 Angola19.4%
- 34 Austria19.3%
- 35 Maldives19.1%
- 36 Kosovo19.1%
- 37 DR Congo19.0%
- 38 Yemen18.9%
- 39 Solomon Islands18.7%
- 40 Côte d’Ivoire18.7%
- 41 Montenegro18.3%
- 42 Bahamas18.2%
- 43 St. Lucia18.2%
- 44 Vanuatu18.1%
- 45 Rwanda18.1%
- 46 Palau18.1%
- 47 Papua New Guinea18.1%
More than most
72 storefronts- 48 Bolivia18.0%
- 49 Vietnam17.9%
- 50 Sri Lanka17.9%
- 51 St. Vincent & Grenadines17.9%
- 52 Mongolia17.9%
- 53 Moldova17.8%
- 54 Turks & Caicos Islands17.8%
- 55 Estonia17.7%
- 56 Jordan17.7%
- 57 Luxembourg17.7%
- 58 Republic of the Congo17.5%
- 59 Algeria17.4%
- 60 Tajikistan17.4%
- 61 Laos17.4%
- 62 Cape Verde17.3%
- 63 Cambodia17.3%
- 64 Macao17.3%
- 65 Malta17.3%
- 66 India17.3%
- 67 Zimbabwe17.2%
- 68 Micronesia17.2%
- 69 Fiji17.2%
- 70 Uzbekistan17.2%
- 71 North Macedonia17.1%
- 72 Lebanon17.1%
- 73 Cameroon17.1%
- 74 Brazil17.1%
- 75 Sierra Leone17.1%
- 76 Niger17.1%
- 77 Nigeria17.0%
- 78 Montserrat16.9%
- 79 Kyrgyzstan16.8%
- 80 Tanzania16.8%
- 81 Jamaica16.8%
- 82 Ghana16.8%
- 83 Serbia16.8%
- 84 Australia16.8%
- 85 Guyana16.7%
- 86 Liberia16.7%
- 87 Uganda16.7%
- 88 Saudi Arabia16.7%
- 89 Suriname16.7%
- 90 Tunisia16.7%
- 91 Botswana16.7%
- 92 Cyprus16.7%
- 93 Mali16.7%
- 94 Malaysia16.6%
- 95 Mauritania16.6%
- 96 Taiwan16.5%
- 97 Slovenia16.5%
- 98 British Virgin Islands16.5%
- 99 Trinidad & Tobago16.5%
- 100 Belize16.4%
- 101 Netherlands16.4%
- 102 Argentina16.4%
- 103 Zambia16.3%
- 104 Greece16.3%
- 105 Senegal16.3%
- 106 Slovakia16.3%
- 107 Mauritius16.3%
- 108 Nicaragua16.3%
- 109 Madagascar16.2%
- 110 Grenada16.2%
- 111 Dominica16.2%
- 112 Poland16.2%
- 113 Guinea-Bissau16.1%
- 114 Mozambique16.1%
- 115 Lithuania16.1%
- 116 Ireland16.1%
- 117 Gambia16.0%
- 118 Pakistan16.0%
- 119 Romania16.0%
About typical
45 storefronts- 120 Paraguay15.9%
- 121 Portugal15.9%
- 122 Hungary15.9%
- 123 São Tomé & Príncipe15.9%
- 124 El Salvador15.9%
- 125 Peru15.9%
- 126 Kenya15.8%
- 127 Seychelles15.8%
- 128 Georgia15.8%
- 129 Czechia15.8%
- 130 Oman15.7%
- 131 Namibia15.7%
- 132 Guatemala15.7%
- 133 Malawi15.7%
- 134 Eswatini15.6%
- 135 Indonesia15.6%
- 136 Venezuela15.6%
- 137 Türkiye15.6%
- 138 Israel15.5%
- 139 St. Kitts & Nevis15.5%
- 140 Croatia15.5%
- 141 Dominican Republic15.3%
- 142 Honduras15.3%
- 143 Egypt15.3%
- 144 Switzerland15.3%
- 145 Thailand15.3%
- 146 Kazakhstan15.3%
- 147 Denmark15.2%
- 148 Italy15.1%
- 149 Iceland15.1%
- 150 Panama15.0%
- 151 Turkmenistan15.0%
- 152 Finland15.0%
- 153 Cayman Islands15.0%
- 154 United Kingdom15.0%
- 155 Costa Rica14.9%
- 156 France14.9%
- 157 Sweden14.9%
- 158 Kuwait14.8%
- 159 Singapore14.8%
- 160 Philippines14.8%
- 161 Japan14.7%
- 162 Chad14.7%
- 163 Ecuador14.7%
- 164 Qatar14.6%
Fewer than most
11 storefronts- 165 New Zealand14.3%
- 166 Norway14.2%
- 167 Uruguay14.2%
- 168 Spain14.1%
- 169 South Africa14.0%
- 170 Colombia14.0%
- 171 Chile13.5%
- 172 Germany13.5%
- 173 Mexico12.2%
- 174 Canada12.1%
- 175 United States12.0%
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 16.7%.