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Table 1 Total number of Twitter users per country (in millions) and the relative frequency of pro-Russian supporters in our dataset. The total number of Twitter users is based on data from 2022 [40, 6163]. We selected the ten leading countries with the highest number of Twitter users. In addition, we included Nigeria, South Africa, and Pakistan, due to their relevance to our analysis

From: Russian propaganda on social media during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine

Country

Twitter users (in millions)

pro-Russian supporters (in %)

Nigeria

0.32

2.290

South Africa

2.85

0.263

Pakistan

3.40

0.161

India

23.60

0.085

United Kingdom

18.40

0.030

Canada

7.90

0.028

United States

76.90

0.021

Indonesia

18.45

0.003

Saudi Arabia

14.10

0.002

Mexico

13.90

0.002

Turkey

16.10

0.002

Brazil

19.05

0.002

Japan

58.95

0.001