OIAA Statistics – 2025 Annual Summary

January–December 2025
(Participation Growth, Meeting Listing Coverage, and Website Engagement)

Membership & Structural Growth

A. OIAA Member Groups

Trend: steady growth with a strong year-end increase

  • January: 788 member groups
  • July: 827 member groups
  • December: 857 member groups

Insight: Growth of member groups is incremental and consistent through mid-year.

Growth of OIAA Member Groups

B. Groups with Meetings Listed on OIAA

This reflects meeting directory coverage, not membership.

Trend: large-scale, stable infrastructure

  • January: ~3,020 listed groups
  • Mid-year: remains in the ~3,000+ range
  • December: 3,277 listed group

Insight

  • OIAA functions not only as a membership body but as a global A.A. service directory.
  • The ratio of listed groups to member groups highlights OIAA’s service reach beyond formal OIAA membership.
  • This reinforces OIAA’s role as a global resource for online A.A. meetings.
C. Meetings Listed

Trend: consistent expansion

  • January: 9,561 meetings
  • July: 10,188 meetings
  • December: 10,626 meetings

Insight

  • Net increase of ~1,065 meetings.
  • Even when member-group reporting paused mid-year, meeting listings continued to expand, signaling:
    • ongoing demand
    • reliance on OIAA
    • organic growth from the wider AA ecosystem

Website Analytics — Two Distinct Eras in 2025

Midyear in 2025 our analytics stopped reporting.  During this time the technology committee stopped using a specific analytics service and chose to report directly from Google Analytics.  All statistics beginning in September established a new baseline for reporting numbers.  September onward will be treated as a new baseline.

Era 1: January–May (Consistent Measurement, Rising Demand)

Clear upward trajectory

  • Users grew from ~98k (Jan) to ~432k (May)
  • Sessions and pageviews remained very high (≈1.3M pageviews/month)

What this tells us

  • Early 2025 saw strong demand for online AA resources and meetings.
  • Engagement was not just visits, but deep usage (high pageviews).

Transitional Period: June–August (Analytics Disruption)

What happened

  • June–July show abnormally low user counts.

What this means

  • These months cannot be compared numerically to either earlier or later periods.
  • However, meeting counts and directory size continued growing.
Era 2: September–December (New Analytics Baseline)

From September forward, metrics are internally consistent and comparable.

Stable, high engagement

  • Users: ~190k–220k per month
  • Sessions: ~350k–450k per month
  • Pageviews (Nov–Dec): ~1.3M per month

Device & language patterns

  • Mobile-first usage dominates
  • English-speaking users remain the majority
  • International reach continues across dozens of countries

What this tells us

  • Post-baseline reset, the site shows strong, sustained demand.
  • Engagement levels in Nov–Dec match or exceed early-year pageview intensity, despite fewer reported users — suggesting high-intent usage.

Big-Picture Insights from 2025

1. OIAA is growing structurally

  • More member groups
  • More meetings
  • Stable, large-scale meeting directory coverage

Growth of OIAA Meeting Directory Listings

OIAA Website Users by Month

2. OIAA’s service footprint exceeds its membership

  • Thousands of non-member groups rely on OIAA listings.
  • This positions OIAA as a trusted, global resource for online A.A. meetings.

3. Engagement is resilient

  • Even with analytics disruptions, all non-analytics indicators trend upward.
  • When measurement stabilizes, usage immediately appears strong.

OIAA Website Engagement Trend

(Assumptions made for incomplete analytics data in midyear)

Global Insights

The following charts show the growth trends in 2025 for top languages, country and region.

Top Languages on OIAA

Top Countries on OIAA

World Regions

Country-by-country insight (what’s really driving growth)

— High-growth, mobile-first countries —

United States

  • Language: English
  • Usage: Mobile-dominant
  • Why it grows: Scale + habit + mobile access

Even in a mature market, mobile convenience drives continued growth.

Brazil

  • Language: Portuguese
  • Usage: Strongly mobile-first
  • Why it grows: Language accessibility + limited local infrastructure

One of the clearest examples of language alignment driving demand.

2025 User Growth by Country
(Language and Mobile Usage Context)

Mexico & Spain

  • Language: Spanish
  • Usage: Mobile-first
  • Why it grows: Spanish-language availability + phone-based access

Confirms Spanish as a critical growth language.

India

  • Language: English
  • Usage: Strongly mobile-first
  • Why it grows: Population scale + mobile reliance + English access

India is the strongest non-Western growth driver in 2025.

— Moderate-growth, mixed-device countries —

Canada & Australia

  • Language: English
  • Usage: Mixed mobile/desktop
  • Why growth is steadier:
    • strong existing infrastructure
    • less dependency on mobile-only access

These countries benefit more from service reliability than expansion.

— Stable, desktop-heavy countries —

United Kingdom

  • Language: English
  • Usage: Desktop + mobile
  • Growth pattern: Steady, not accelerating

France & Germany

  • Language: French / German
  • Usage: Desktop-heavy
  • Growth pattern: Flat to modest

These are mature AA ecosystems where OIAA is a support layer, not the primary access point.

— The strategic insight that matters most —

Growth is not driven by geography alone — it is driven by mobile-first access combined with strong language alignment.

This explains:

  • why Brazil outpaces some European countries
  • why India emerges strongly
  • why stable European countries remain flat without decline

### End of 2025 OIAA Statistics Overview Report ###