The number of people using Facebook in India have more than doubled in the past one year.
"We have achieved varying levels of penetration within the population of Internet users in different countries," the popular social networking site has said, while noting that its penetration rate in India was estimated to be 20-30 per cent.
"We experienced growth across different geographies, with users in Brazil and India representing a key source of growth," it added.
"... we had 46 million MAUs in India as of December 31, 2011, an increase of 132 per cent from the prior year," Facebook said, noting that growth in the US was 16 per cent and 268 per cent in Brazil for the same period.
Facebook said it would "continue to focus on growing our user base across all geographies, including relatively less-penetrated, large markets such as Brazil, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, and South Korea."
"We compete broadly with Google's social networking offerings, including Google+, and also with other, largely regional, social networks that have strong positions in particular countries, including Cyworld in Korea, Mixi in Japan, Orkut in Brazil and India..."