Cross-Gender Friendship Links at Subnational Level for Nearly 200 Countries

A global dataset of cross-gender friendship links constructed from more than a trillion friendship ties among Facebook users. The data covers nearly 200 countries and territories at the subnational level. It was produced by AI for Good at Meta and last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze gender segregation in social networks based on cross-gender friendship links.
• Study subnational variation in social integration across nearly 200 countries and territories.
• Model the relationship between social ties and other demographic or economic indicators.
• Benchmark algorithms for measuring social connectedness using large-scale friendship data.

Strengths

• Global coverage spanning nearly 200 countries and territories.
• Constructed from a source of more than a trillion friendship ties.
• Provides subnational-level geographic resolution.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and platform-specific bias inherent to the Facebook source.

Provenance

Source

AI for Good at Meta, based on Facebook friendship data.

Collection Method

Constructed from more than a trillion friendship ties among Facebook users.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-21 16:06:03.562893; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global, covering nearly 200 countries and territories at the subnational level.