I run a small tool that guesses whether a YouTube channel is in the Partner Program from what’s public on the page. YouTube stopped showing that status publicly in late 2023, so the tool works from other signals. I put the per-country counts into a dataset.
One row per country: channels checked, how many came out likely monetized, possibly, likely not, and couldn’t tell, plus median subscribers. Countries with fewer than 30 channels are left out.
The channels come from each region’s trending videos (YouTube Data API, 111 regions, 10 categories), so they skew big. A country’s number is about the big channels we checked, not the country as a whole.
About 20% we couldn’t call either way, and that column is in there.
One thing I got wrong: the bottom eight countries (Kazakhstan, Tanzania and Bangladesh at 0 of 60) are exactly the eight where YouTube doesn’t offer channel memberships, and the September rule needed the memberships Join button for a “likely” verdict. That rule has since been changed. This file is the September snapshot; the repo has a comparison of the two.
GitHub: https://github.com/supertj/youtube-monetization-by-country
Live version (updated weekly, new rule): https://monetizationkit.com/data/youtube-monetized-channels-by-country/
If something looks off in a country row, I’d like to hear it.
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