PUBG Mobile, a free battle royale game developed by LightSpeed & Quantum Studio, a division of Tencent, with PUBG Studios, saw the highest player spending from July 6 to August 4, 2025 in just one country, according to Statista. Find out...
Players in China made up, approximately, a flabbergasting 69 per cent of all PUBG Mobile spending worldwide over the previous 30 days! Incredible, right? It's the world's biggest gaming bazar.
PUBG-ers in the United States contributed a hefty 8 per cent or so of the mobile game's total global spending. In January this year the American government blacklisted Tencent for links to the People's Liberation Army but the game is not banned.
Players in the Kingdom, the Arab country with the fourth largest population, were responsible for 4 per cent of the total worldwide spending of this 5th best-selling video game ever.
Next comes the gamers club of Germany -- 2 per cent of PUBG Mobile's global spending share. Germany is one of Europe's largest market for video games with, as per 2018 stats, 44.3 million gamers.
The United Arab Emirates like Germany also accounted for 2 per cent of PUBG Mobile's global spending. The game was briefly banned in UAE because of mental health concerns.
Turkey matched Germany and the UAE with a 2 per cent share. Turkey is generally a video games-pro nation & home to several big companies that develop these games -- the 18th biggest gaming country in the world as per 2022 figures.
A country racked by war since 2022, has, surprisingly an appetite and market for imaginary warfare too. Players in Ukraine made up 1 per cent of PUBG Mobile’s total global spending.