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 16.6%. 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 Afghanistan34.4%
- 3 Russia26.9%
Far more than most
33 storefronts- 4 Morocco23.5%
- 5 Latvia22.8%
- 6 Nauru22.7%
- 7 United Arab Emirates22.4%
- 8 Nepal21.9%
- 9 Ukraine21.0%
- 10 Brunei20.8%
- 11 Libya20.8%
- 12 Bosnia & Herzegovina20.6%
- 13 Belarus20.6%
- 14 Tonga20.3%
- 15 South Korea20.2%
- 16 Gabon20.2%
- 17 Iraq20.0%
- 18 Myanmar (Burma)19.6%
- 19 Hong Kong19.5%
- 20 Maldives19.1%
- 21 Yemen18.9%
- 22 Bhutan18.8%
- 23 DR Congo18.8%
- 24 Solomon Islands18.6%
- 25 Bahrain18.5%
- 26 Armenia18.5%
- 27 Albania18.4%
- 28 Azerbaijan18.4%
- 29 Kosovo18.4%
- 30 Bulgaria18.3%
- 31 Côte d’Ivoire18.2%
- 32 Benin18.2%
- 33 Burkina Faso18.2%
- 34 St. Lucia18.1%
- 35 Rwanda18.1%
- 36 Palau18.0%
More than most
77 storefronts- 37 Papua New Guinea18.0%
- 38 Vietnam17.9%
- 39 Vanuatu17.9%
- 40 Sri Lanka17.9%
- 41 Bermuda17.9%
- 42 St. Vincent & Grenadines17.8%
- 43 Moldova17.8%
- 44 Mongolia17.8%
- 45 Belgium17.8%
- 46 Turks & Caicos Islands17.7%
- 47 Estonia17.7%
- 48 Montenegro17.7%
- 49 Luxembourg17.7%
- 50 Jordan17.7%
- 51 Anguilla17.7%
- 52 Angola17.6%
- 53 Antigua & Barbuda17.6%
- 54 Barbados17.4%
- 55 Bahamas17.3%
- 56 Cambodia17.3%
- 57 Macao17.3%
- 58 Laos17.3%
- 59 Tajikistan17.3%
- 60 Malta17.3%
- 61 India17.3%
- 62 Algeria17.2%
- 63 Cape Verde17.2%
- 64 Republic of the Congo17.2%
- 65 Austria17.1%
- 66 Zimbabwe17.1%
- 67 North Macedonia17.1%
- 68 Uzbekistan17.1%
- 69 Fiji17.1%
- 70 Lebanon17.1%
- 71 Sierra Leone17.1%
- 72 Niger17.0%
- 73 Micronesia17.0%
- 74 Nigeria17.0%
- 75 Montserrat16.8%
- 76 Cameroon16.8%
- 77 Serbia16.8%
- 78 Tanzania16.8%
- 79 Jamaica16.8%
- 80 Kyrgyzstan16.7%
- 81 Ghana16.7%
- 82 Guyana16.7%
- 83 Saudi Arabia16.7%
- 84 Liberia16.6%
- 85 Uganda16.6%
- 86 Tunisia16.6%
- 87 Malaysia16.6%
- 88 Mali16.6%
- 89 Suriname16.5%
- 90 Mauritania16.5%
- 91 Slovenia16.5%
- 92 Taiwan16.5%
- 93 Cyprus16.5%
- 94 Netherlands16.4%
- 95 Trinidad & Tobago16.4%
- 96 Slovakia16.3%
- 97 Greece16.3%
- 98 Senegal16.3%
- 99 Zambia16.2%
- 100 British Virgin Islands16.2%
- 101 Nicaragua16.2%
- 102 Mauritius16.2%
- 103 Grenada16.1%
- 104 Botswana16.1%
- 105 Dominica16.1%
- 106 Lithuania16.1%
- 107 Madagascar16.1%
- 108 Guinea-Bissau16.1%
- 109 Mozambique16.0%
- 110 Bolivia16.0%
- 111 Pakistan16.0%
- 112 Poland16.0%
- 113 Ireland16.0%
About typical
50 storefronts- 114 Gambia16.0%
- 115 Brazil16.0%
- 116 Romania16.0%
- 117 Portugal15.9%
- 118 Hungary15.9%
- 119 Paraguay15.9%
- 120 São Tomé & Príncipe15.9%
- 121 Belize15.9%
- 122 Peru15.8%
- 123 Seychelles15.8%
- 124 El Salvador15.8%
- 125 Kenya15.7%
- 126 Oman15.7%
- 127 Georgia15.7%
- 128 Namibia15.7%
- 129 Indonesia15.6%
- 130 Eswatini15.6%
- 131 Venezuela15.6%
- 132 Czechia15.6%
- 133 Guatemala15.6%
- 134 Türkiye15.6%
- 135 Israel15.5%
- 136 Croatia15.4%
- 137 Malawi15.4%
- 138 St. Kitts & Nevis15.4%
- 139 Thailand15.3%
- 140 Honduras15.2%
- 141 Egypt15.2%
- 142 Australia15.2%
- 143 Kazakhstan15.2%
- 144 Dominican Republic15.2%
- 145 Denmark15.1%
- 146 Italy15.0%
- 147 Switzerland15.0%
- 148 United Kingdom15.0%
- 149 Finland15.0%
- 150 Sweden14.9%
- 151 Turkmenistan14.9%
- 152 France14.9%
- 153 Panama14.9%
- 154 Iceland14.9%
- 155 Cayman Islands14.9%
- 156 Singapore14.9%
- 157 Kuwait14.8%
- 158 Costa Rica14.7%
- 159 Japan14.7%
- 160 Philippines14.7%
- 161 Chad14.6%
- 162 Qatar14.6%
- 163 Ecuador14.5%
Fewer than most
12 storefronts- 164 Argentina14.4%
- 165 Norway14.2%
- 166 New Zealand14.1%
- 167 Uruguay14.1%
- 168 Spain14.0%
- 169 South Africa13.9%
- 170 Colombia13.6%
- 171 Germany13.5%
- 172 Chile13.2%
- 173 Mexico12.2%
- 174 United States12.0%
- 175 Canada12.0%
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 16.6%.