--- title: Here's a Fascinating Breakdown of Emoji Use by Country description: British app developer SwiftKey studied over 1 billion pieces of emoji data taken from communications in 16 languages canonical: https://time.com/3831060/emoji-use-by-country/ author: David Stout article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-22T09:40:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:18:59.938Z og:title: Here's a Fascinating Breakdown of Emoji Use by Country og:description: Did somebody say "national stereotypes"? og:url: https://time.com/3831060/emoji-use-by-country/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt969654b29ebdb9ab/6987ec48e53aba60994db72c/emojis.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: Hong Kong Rugby Sevens: beer, costumes and, somewhere, a result og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's a Fascinating Breakdown of Emoji Use by Country twitter:description: Did somebody say "national stereotypes"? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt969654b29ebdb9ab/6987ec48e53aba60994db72c/emojis.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's a Fascinating Breakdown of Emoji Use by Country > Sponsored content. 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According to their findings, Canadians scored highest in categories associated with violence and money, loving the gun and cash emoji more than other nationalities. Down under, Australians surprised few by embracing icons suggestive of alcohol and drugs, using those symbols are least twice as frequently as the global average. France was the only country the smiley-faced icon was not the most used emoji. However, French speakers did use the heart emoji with greater frequency than anybody else. No clear traits emerged for the U.S., but the report said Americans “lead for a random assortment of emoji … including skulls, birthday cake, fire, tech, LGBT, meat and female-oriented emoji.” Check out the full report [here](http://www.scribd.com/doc/262594751/SwiftKey-Emoji-Report). _Read next:_ [_Everything You Need to Know About Snapchat’s New Emoji Feature_](http://time.com/3773405/snapchat-friend-emoji-update/?iid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/autoplay/?xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3831060/emoji-use-by-country/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3831060/emoji-use-by-country/"},"headline":"Here's a Fascinating Breakdown of Emoji Use by Country","datePublished":"2015-04-22T09:40:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:59.938Z","description":"Did somebody say \"national stereotypes\"?","url":"https://time.com/3831060/emoji-use-by-country/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Tech","Australia","France","U.S.","Canada","trends","emojis"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt969654b29ebdb9ab/6987ec48e53aba60994db72c/emojis.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"David Stout","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/david-stout/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt969654b29ebdb9ab/6987ec48e53aba60994db72c/emojis.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hong Kong Rugby Sevens: beer, costumes and, somewhere, a result","caption":"Hong Kong Rugby Sevens: beer, costumes and, somewhere, a result","creditText":"Stringer—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3831060/emoji-use-by-country/","name":"Here's a Fascinating Breakdown of Emoji Use by Country"}}]}] ```