How many gamers are there?

There a lot of gamers in the world. More than 1.2 billion people are playing games worldwide. Of these, 700 million are online gamers. This amounts to about 44% to the worlds population.

The above image shows that the male gender is most popular and also shows different genres for different genders. This will help us when we decide on the genre and then from the genre chosen, it will give us an idea of who our target audience could be.