MonetizationKit

YouTube monetization by country

How often channels in each country show the public signals of a monetized channel.

Channels checked
917
Sampled / looked up
917 / 0
Countries published
11
Check window
September 5, 2026
Recomputed
September 5, 2026
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  • Possibly
  • Likely not
  • Unable
CountryCheckedLikelyPossiblyLikely notUnableVerdict mixMedian subs
Brazil3548.6%37.1%2.9%11.4%1.6M
Romania3548.6%25.7%0%25.7%380K
France3545.7%37.1%5.7%11.4%746K
Germany3540%40%2.9%17.1%344K
Thailand3540%51.4%5.7%2.9%1.6M
Spain3528.6%51.4%2.9%17.1%2.2M
Vietnam3525.7%57.1%17.1%0%1.1M
United States3522.9%51.4%11.4%14.3%4.9M
Japan3520%68.6%5.7%5.7%997K
Indonesia3517.1%62.9%5.7%14.3%1.2M
India352.9%77.1%8.6%11.4%2.3M

Only countries with at least 30 checked channels are published. Percentages are shares of the channels we checked in that country, not of every channel there.

What the sample shows

  • Brazil comes out highest: 48.6% of the 35 channels we checked there look monetized.
  • India is lowest, at 2.9% of 35 channels.
  • That is a 17× gap between the top and bottom country in this sample.
  • We could not tell either way for 11.9% of these channels — either the signals were unreadable, or they pointed both ways.
  • Size varies as much as status: the median channel we checked has 4,870,000 subscribers in United States and 344,000 in Germany.
  • 11 of 74 countries have enough checked channels to publish; the rest wait until they reach 30.

How this data is collected

Rows come from three places, and the split is published above: channels somebody looked up on MonetizationKit, channels we sampled systematically, and a dozen well-known channels checked on a schedule to keep the cache warm. One row per channel, so a channel checked a hundred times still counts once.

You can rebuild our list yourself. We ask the official YouTube API for the most popular videos in each country, take the channels behind them, and check every one. That is why the channels here are big and currently in front of people, and why the median subscriber counts run into the millions.

The country is the channel's own self-reported country from the YouTube Data API. It is the creator's country, not where the audience watches from, and channels that leave it blank are excluded entirely.

Verdicts use the same four tiers as the checker: Likely Monetized, Possibly Monetized, Likely Not Monetized, and Unable to Determine. The signal rules behind each tier are public, and a verdict is an inference from public signals, not a statement from YouTube.

Median subscribers skips channels that hide their subscriber count. Figures are recomputed every Monday, whether or not new checks arrived that week; the "Recomputed" date above is that run, and the check window is when the underlying checks happened.

Read these numbers carefully

These are trending channels, not typical ones. Most of them have hundreds of thousands of subscribers, so a low share here does not mean creators in that country rarely get monetized — it means the big channels we checked showed fewer public signals.

Read a row as: of the 35 channels we checked in this country, this many showed the signals. Do not read it as the country's monetization rate. We publish the sample size next to every number so you can judge that yourself.

Use and cite this data

The dataset is free to reuse, including commercially, under CC BY 4.0. Republish the table, chart it, or build on it — just credit MonetizationKit and link back to this page.

Download the CSV for the published countries, with the same columns as the table above.

Cite this page
MonetizationKit. YouTube monetization signals by country. Updated September 5, 2026. https://monetizationkit.com/data/youtube-monetized-channels-by-country/

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