Most content creators are at least curious as to how many YouTube channels have over 1 Million Subscribers. So each year we make it a point to try to keep you up to date on how many YouTube Channels have over 100,000, 1 Million, 10 Million, and 100 Million Subscribers.

Q: How Many YouTube Channels Have 1 Million Subscribers in 2025?

69,182 YouTube Channels have over 1 Million Subscribers (or  more) in 2025.

There are roughly 115 Million YouTube Channels in the entire world with over 60M Channels Actively Uploading to YouTube every month. Far less than 1% of all YouTube Channels have a silver or gold play button, even if you wanted to try to narrow it down to only active channels.

Less than 100,000 channels in the United States have a Silver Play Button and over 100,000 Subscribers and only roughly 13,000 YouTube Channels in the United States have a Gold Play Button and over 1 Million Subscribers.

90% of all YouTube channels have less than 1000 Subscribers, and 97% of Channels have less than 10,000 Subscribers on YouTube.

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Relevant YouTube Statistics for 2025

• 105,960 YouTube Channels in the U.S. as of August 2025 Have YouTube Play Button Awards and at least 100,000 subscribers or more
• 91,700 YouTube Channels in the U.S. as of August 2025 Have 100,000 Subscribers or more
• 13,510 YouTube Channels in the U.S. as of August 2025 Have 1 Million Subscribers or more
• 678 YouTube Channels in the U.S. as of August 2025 Have 10 Million Subscribers or more
• 6 YouTube Channels in the U.S. as of August 2025 Have 10 Million Subscribers or more
• India has the most YouTube Play Buttons (144,430), United States has the second most (105,960), Brazil has the 3rd most (33,835), followed by Indonesia in fourth with (26,647), and Japan in fifth place with (16,368).
• 618,955 YouTube Channels have 100,000 Subscribers (or  more) in 2025
• 69,182 YouTube Channels have 1 Million Subscribers (or  more) in 2025
• 2639 YouTube Channels have 10 Million Subscribers (or  more) in 2025
• 74 YouTube Channels have 50 Million Subscribers (or more) in 2025
• 14 YouTube Channels as of August 2025 Have 100 Million Subscribers or more, the Channels are: MrBeast, WWE, Vlad and Niki, Kids Diana Show, Like Nastya, The Stoke Twins, Pewdiepie, Cocomelon Nursery Rhymes, Sony SAB, TSeries, SETIndia, Zee Music Company, Goldmines and KIMPRO.

 

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