NYSE: UBERUber Technologies Inc Statistics & Facts
Key Uber facts
- Founded
- 2009
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
- Founders
- Garrett Camp, Travis Kalanick
- IPO Date
- 2019-05-10
Uber User & Usage Stats
Uber Trips
How many Uber rides do people take per year?
Uber Gross Bookings
How much do people spend on Uber's services?
Uber Gross Bookings by Segment
How much do people spend on Uber Eats?
In 2020, Uber Eats surpassed rides as the top earner for the company due to the impact of COVID-19. [3]
Date: Feb 10, 2021
People spent $55.778 on Uber's delivery apps, including Uber Eats and Postmates, in 2022. [1]
Date: Feb 21, 2023
With 22% of all gross bookings, Uber's biggest markets for rides are Chicago, Miami, New York City, Sao Paulo and London. [1]
Date: Feb 21, 2023
Uber Users by Age
Uber user demographic stats by age group.
65% of Uber users are below 35 years of age. [4]
Date: Aug 17, 2017
Uber Users by Income
How much do Uber users make?
44% of Uber users are in the middle 50% range of income. [4]
Date: Aug 17, 2017
Uber Users by Urban Context
Uber stats breaking down user demographics by urban context.
48% of Uber users live in the suburbs. [4]
Date: Aug 16, 2017
Uber Driver Stats
Uber Driver Earnings
How much does an Uber driver make?
Uber vs Lyft: Driver Preferences
Lyft vs Uber driver stats showing which one drivers prefer and overlap between the two.
Uber Drivers by Race/Ethnicity
What are the demographics of Uber drivers?
Source:Uber
White
51%
Black
17.9%
Hispanic
13.1%
Asian
5.7%
Other/multiple options selected
8.8%
Did not answer
3.5%
51% of Uber drivers in the US are white. [8]
Last Accessed: May 29, 2023
15% of Uber drivers and couriers are women. [8]
Last Accessed: May 29, 2023
17% of Uber drivers in the US are women. [8]
Last Accessed: May 29, 2023
46% of Uber couriers in the US are women. [8]
Last Accessed: May 29, 2023
29% of Uber drivers in the US that also do deliveries are women. [8]
Last Accessed: May 29, 2023
Uber Revenue Breakdown
Uber Expense Statistics
Uber Expenses by Type
How much does Uber spend on research and development (R&D)?
Source:Uber
Cost of revenue
$19.66B
Operations and support
$2.41B
Sales and marketing
$4.76B
Research and development
$2.80B
General and administrative
$3.14B
Depreciation and amortization
$947.00M
Uber spent $2.798 billion on R&D in 2022, up from $2.054 billion in 2021. [1]
Date: Feb 21, 2023
Uber Incentive Expenses
How much does Uber spend on discounts, promo codes and other customer incentive programs?
In 2022, Uber spent $2.2 billion on incentives such as promo codes and discounts for people who were not customers, down from $2.5 billion in 2021. [1]
Date: Feb 21, 2023
Uber Major Acquisitions & Divestitures
Uber acquired alcohol delivery service Drizly for $1.1 billion in cash and stock in 2021. [15]
Date: Feb 2, 2021
Uber acquired Postmates for $2.65 billion in stock in 2020. [16]
Date: Jul 6, 2020
Uber acquired Careem, a Dubai-based company with a similar business model, for $3.1 billion in 2020. [17]
Date: Jan 2, 2020
Uber sold its European freight business to German logistics company Sennder in a deal estimated to be less than $900 million in 2020. [18]
Date: Sep 16, 2020
Uber sold its self-driving car business, Uber Advanced Technologies Group (ATG), to self-driving vehicle startup Aurora in 2020. [19]
Date: Dec 7, 2020
Uber sold its air taxi business Uber Elevate to Joby Aviation in 2020. [20]
Date: Dec 9, 2020
Uber sold its Uber Eats segment in India to rival company Zomato in 2020. In exchange, Uber got a 9.99% stake in the company. [21]
Date: Jan 20, 2020
Uber acquired public transit software company Routematch in 2020. [22]
Date: Jul 16, 2020
Uber acquired British taxi software company Autocab in 2020. [23]
Date: Aug 5, 2020
Uber acquired South American grocery provider Cornershop in 2019. [24]
Date: Oct 11, 2019
Uber acquired A.I. startup Mighty AI in 2019. [25]
Date: Jun 25, 2019
Uber acquired delivery-only restaurant Ando in 2018. [26]
Date: Nov 14, 2019
Uber acquired South African online restaurant ordering system provider orderTalk in 2018. [27]
Date: May 24, 2018
Uber acquired social app developer Swipe Labs in 2017. [28]
Date: Jul 14, 2017
Uber acquired self-driving truck startup Otto in 2016. [29]
Date: Aug 18, 2016
Uber acquired A.I. startup Geometric Intelligence in 2016. [30]
Date: Dec 5, 2016
Uber acquired location services and mapping company deCarta in 2015. [31]
Date: Mar 4, 2015
Uber Employee Statistics
Uber Employees by Race/Ethnicity
Is Uber a diverse company?
Source:Uber
White
40.3%
Asian
36%
Hispanic
9.9%
Black
9.3%
Native American or Alaska native
0.2%
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander
0.3%
Uber Miscellaneous Statistics
Uber is currently banned in China, Denmark, Hungary, Bulgaria and Australia's Northern Territory. Partial bans are in effect in France, Italy, Finland, Germany and the Netherlands where you can't get certain ride types. [34]
Date: Jul 18, 2018
Uber paid $20 million in a settlement after they inflated the median earnings of drivers in New York and San Francisco. The company had placed the figures at $90,000 and $74,000 respectively but the FTC found the real amounts to be $61,000 and $53,000. [35]
Date: Jan 20, 2017
27% of Uber drivers were female as of 2018. [36]
Date: Sep 23, 2018
Uber and other on-demand services such as Lyft, Instacart and DoorDash spent over $200 million to get Proposition 22 passed in California in 2020. The legislation classified the companies' gig workers as independent contractors as opposed to employees. [37]
Date: Nov 3, 2020
Uber's 11% drop in share prices after its IPO marked the biggest first-day dollar loss of any IPO in the U.S. [38]
Date: May 13, 2019
In 2018, one of Uber's self-driving cars struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona. Prosecutors stated that the company was not criminally liable, but the vehicle's backup operator was charged with negligent homicide in 2020. [39]
Date: Oct 16, 2020
Uber reported 998 incidents of sexual assaults during rides in 2020, down from 2,826 in 2019. [8]
Last Accessed: May 30, 2023
Uber reported 11 fatalities during rides in 2020, up from 9 in 2019. [8]
Last Accessed: May 30, 2023
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Uber 2022 Annual Report
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https://blog.globalwebindex.com/chart-of-the-day/uber-demographics/Date: Aug 17, 2017
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