Meta reveals India's pet icons across categories ahead of Emoji Day

Emoji Day will be celebrated across the world on July 17

The world will celebrate emoji day on July 17. The rise of visual-based communications has led to a new vocabulary of emojis and GIFs, which is making us more expressive than ever before. There is an emoji with just the right expression for every emotion we go through, helping us to communicate better.

Meta shares some fun facts on how Indians are using emojis across its platforms.

Among activities and sports, cricket continues to be the nation’s favourite sport, followed by yoga/meditation emoji given people’s focus on health and wellbeing.

We are an expressive bunch, even if it’s just through Emojis - Version 14.0 saw 112 new emojis released in 2021. Despite the many choices, the most popular new emojis on Facebook amongst Indians showed a range of emotion.

Here’s a list of the most popular emojis used in India across Facebook and Instagram:

Popular sports emojis on Facebook posts in India are:

Yoga meditation emoji

Person Lifting Weights

Bow and Arrow emoji

Most popular sports emojis in Instagram bios for people living in India are:

Cricket emoji

Football emoji

Bullseye emoji

Popular emojis in India by age group on Facebook:

Gen Z (18 - 24):

Heart emoji 

Folded Hands emoji

Thumbs up emoji

Millennials (25-44):

Birthday cake emoji

Folded Hands emoji

Heart emoji

Gen X + Boomers (45 - 65+):

Birthday cake emoji

Heart emoji

Party Popper emoji