目前为止，在facebook社交游戏玩家排行榜中，英国玩家规模仅次于美国本土，位居第二。

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在英国facebook玩家的人口统计分析中，inside facebook gold针对18款facebook顶尖游戏进行分析，发现女性玩家在玩家人群中占据的份额远远超过了男性玩家的比例。诸如farmville游戏中，女性为60.3%，而男性仅为38.4%（部分小龄玩家除外）；happy aquarium游戏中，女性为67.2%，男性仅为31.8%。当然部分战争型游戏除外，比如mafia wars游戏中男性玩家为67.4%，而女性玩家仅为31.3%。

而在年龄层方面，根据游戏性质的不同，也有不同的爱好者。诸如farmville老少皆宜，13-17岁为19.7%，18-25岁为25.4%，26-35岁为21.2%，36-45岁为19.2，46-55岁为9.6%，各年龄层分部相对比较均匀。

When we recently surveyed  US demographic data for 18 different leading apps by various developers, we found that, while users for these in apps generally trend young and female, certain apps like Zynga’s Texas HoldEm, with a 72.7% male audience, bucked the prevailing demographic trend.

But what about that other 70% of Facebook’s userbase that resides outside of the United States? Today we look at app demographics for Facebook’s second largest market by audience size, the United Kingdom. The data presented below is a sample of the full research and data offering we make available through Inside Facebook Gold.

In the UK, certain apps on the platform are even more dominated by a female audience than they are in the US. For several of the apps in this sample, women outnumber men two to one. One major exception is Zynga’s Mafia Wars, where there are twice as many male players than female players.

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For our UK sample, we included some data on casual skill-based games to see how their player demographics differed from those of social role-playing games like Farmville. In the UK, PopCap’s Bejeweled Blitz has a userbase that’s 69.6% female, and just 29.1% male. Compare that to Farmville’s 60.3% female and 38.4% male userbase.

Recall also that Farmville has been one of the defining titles of social gaming, contributing significantly to social games’ image as the “middle-aged housewives’” go-to online leisure activity. Even so, our data show that Bejeweled Blitz is even more female and more middle-aged (as we’ll see below) than social RPGs like Farmville.

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The average gender distribution for the UK mirrors that of the US, but with slightly less gender disparity. In the UK, women make up, on average, 57.9% of social gamers, and men make up 41.0%. For reference, women make up 60.8% of the US social game audience and men make up 38.2%.

While most games fell in line with the average distribution, a few of the titles that didn’t make it into the sample presented here, but whose data is available in Inside Facebook Gold, were more popular with men. Can you guess which ones?

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When it comes to age distribution, the UK looks a lot like the US. The 18 to 25 age group make up social gaming’s biggest audience segment, with one interesting exception.

Bejeweled Blitz, represented by the green line in the chart above, is vastly more popular with older (and, as we saw above, female) audiences, and even has a significant following in the 56 to 64 age group. Unlike Farmville and EA’s Restaurant City, it’s not a popular title among young users – only 7.0% of those between 13 and 17 play the game.

For this writer, these stats were brought to life during a recent layover in the Denver airport when I observed a silver-haired woman avidly playing Bejeweled on her laptop, over the airport’s free wifi. I credit this Bejeweled fan and social game influencer, who fell squarely in the 56 to 64 and female demographic overlap, with my current love of the game.

We will be looking at demographics for other countries, one by one, in future articles. The full demographic breakdowns for 12 top apps in Facebook’s UK market, including gender and age group splits and growth data when available, is available through Inside Facebook Gold, our data membership service that also includes the monthly Global Monitor report on Facebook’s traffic growth around the world.