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The App Store has 1.78 million apps and 37 million developers

This is the first report released as part of the App Store Developer Settlement the company entered into in 2021.

According to the App Store Transparency Report for 2022 (2022 App Store Transparency Report), published on the company’s website, as of 2022, there were 1,783,232 applications in the App Store. This is the first report released as part of the company’s 2021 App Store Developer Settlement .

Here are some more interesting numbers:

Total registered developers – 36,974,015
Average number of accounts searching for something in the App Store per week – 373,211,396
Accounts closed – 428,487
Appeals – 3338
Restored – 159
There were 6,101,913 app reviews
Of these, 1,679,694 were rejected
Top Reasons for Rejection – Security, Performance, Business, Design, Legal
Apps approved after issues were resolved – 253,466
Apps removed from the App Store 186,195
Top Uninstall Categories – Games, Utilities, Business, Education and Lifestyle
Top reasons for deletion – Design, Fraud, Developer Code of Conduct, Copyright Violation, Spam
Top countries by app removals – China, India, Pakistan, Russia, Turkey