Facebook's economic impact based on gross value added in 2011

This statistic shows Facebook's European economic impact in 2011, measured in terms of gross value added. According to the source, both narrow effects and broad effects were factored into the value calculation. Broad effects include tech sales, platform effects and business participation; narrow effects include direct effects such as taxes or employee wages as well as indirect and induced effects. The website's broad and narrow effects created a total economic impact of 2.6 billion euros in Germany.
Germany, Spain, France, Italy and the UK account for 73 percent of the total economic impact of Facebook across the EU27 (including CH).