Uber Statistics 2026: Revenue, Drivers, MAPCs and Growth

Uber processed $58.0 billion in Gross Bookings, a 24% year-over-year increase, in the second quarter of 2026, according to its Q2 2026 earnings release. Among the quarter’s other Uber statistics, the platform averaged 208 million monthly active platform consumers and 3.9 billion trips, while a record 10.2 million drivers and couriers earned over $25 billion on the platform.

Momentum held across the business: Gross Bookings accelerated to 22% year-over-year growth, the fourth consecutive quarter above 20%, and trailing twelve-month free cash flow exceeded $10 billion for the first time in Uber’s history. The sections below break those totals into revenue by country, driver pay, headcount, Uber One, autonomous vehicles, and a head-to-head with Lyft, using Uber’s filings rather than third-party estimates.

Key Takeaways

• Delivery Gross Bookings grew 26% in Q2 2026 against 22% for Mobility, cutting Mobility’s lead to $1,525 million.
• Uber One members generated more than 70% of Delivery Gross Bookings, up roughly 20 points in just two years.
• The UK alone produced 20.4% of Uber’s 2025 revenue, against 45.7% for the United States.
• Drivers and couriers averaged more than $2,450 each in platform earnings during Q2 2026.
• GAAP net income swung from $263 million, which includes a $1.5 billion net headwind in Q1 2026, to $2.4 billion, which includes a $1.6 billion net benefit (pre-tax) from revaluations of Uber’s equity investments in Q2 2026.
• Supply outgrew demand in Q4 2025: monthly drivers and couriers rose 19% to 9.7 million, while MAPCs grew 18%.
• Grocery & Retail reached $15 billion in annualized Gross Bookings, growing roughly 40% YoY.

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• 2025 Gross Bookings: $193 billion in Gross Bookings and $10 billion in free cash flow.
• Monthly active platform consumers: 208 million in Q2 2026.
• Drivers and couriers: a record 10.2 million earned over $25 billion on the platform in Q2 2026.
• Daily trips: over 40 million trips per day in over 70 countries.
• Employees: approximately 34,000 employees globally at the end of 2025.
• Uber One members: up 55% YoY to over 46 million members globally at the end of 2025.
• Advertising: exceeded a $2.5 billion annualized revenue run-rate in Q2 2026.

Uber Statistics: Revenue and Gross Bookings

Every figure below comes from 39 cited findings: 38 Tier 1 documents (Uber’s 2024 and 2025 Form 10-K filings, its 2026 proxy statement, quarterly earnings releases and prepared remarks, plus Lyft’s Q2 2026 release) and 1 Tier 3 dataset from Gridwise. The documents were published between February 2025 and August 2026. Figures are reviewed on a rolling basis and updated when Uber publishes new results.

• Q2 2026 revenue grew 12% YoY to $14.2 billion, and business model changes cut total revenue growth by 8 points.
• GAAP Income from operations grew 30% YoY to $1.9 billion in Q2 2026.
• Non-GAAP Operating Income grew 40% YoY to $2.1 billion, or 3.7% of Gross Bookings, up from 3.3% in Q2 2025.
• 2025 marked the fifth consecutive year of at least 20% growth in Gross Bookings.
• In Q4 2025, Gross Bookings grew 22% YoY to $54.1 billion.

Source: Uber Q4 and Full Year 2025 earnings release, February 2026

Uber Gross Bookings by Segment

• In Q2 2026, Delivery and Freight each accelerated to 25% growth.
• Freight reached $1,571 million in Gross Bookings, up 25% in Q2 2026.
• Delivery made up 47.3% of Q2 2026 Gross Bookings.
• In Q1 2026, Gross Bookings growth exceeded 21% for the third consecutive quarter.

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Recent Developments

• August 5, 2026: Uber anticipates Q3 2026 Gross Bookings of $58.25 billion to $60.25 billion, representing growth of 18% to 22% on a constant-currency basis.
• August 5, 2026: Wayve’s autonomous vehicles received Private Hire Vehicle licenses in London, clearing a launch on Uber over the coming weeks.
• July 16, 2026: Uber offered cash consideration of €41.50 per share for Delivery Hero, representing an Equity Value of $14.8 billion, extending its platform to a total of 99 markets.
• Q2 2026: Uber invested approximately $4 billion to establish an economic interest of roughly 37% in Delivery Hero while repurchasing $510 million of Uber stock.
• August 6, 2026: Lyft reported Record Active Riders of over 30 million globally for the same quarter.
• Q2 2026: During the FIFA World Cup, more than 8 million tourists took rides across host cities.

Uber Monthly Active Platform Consumers (MAPCs) Statistics

• In Q2 2026, MAPCs grew 16% YoY and monthly Trips per MAPC grew 2%.
• Uber ended the year with monthly Trips per MAPC of 6.2 in 2025.
• Uber added more first-time users over the past twelve months than in any period over the past five years, according to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.
• 40% of Uber customers are now using multiple products, as of Q4 2025.
• Consumers who used both Mobility and Delivery generated over three times the Gross Bookings of single-offering consumers in Q4 2025.
• Only approximately one in five eligible consumers are active monthly across both businesses.

How Many Trips Does Uber Complete?

• Q2 2026 trips averaged roughly 42.5 million per day across the quarter.
• Uber has logged more than 79 billion trips since it started in 2010, according to the company.
• Trip growth ran at 22% in Q3 2025 and 22% in Q4 2025 before easing to 18% in Q2 2026.
• The 2-point moderation in YoY Trips growth was entirely attributable to Brazil, Uber’s highest-volume market globally.

Sharing-economy peers report on different units: Airbnb’s booking statistics count stays rather than trips.

How Many Uber Drivers Are There?

• Drivers and couriers earned over $25 billion on the platform in Q2 2026, up from more than $24 billion in Q4 2025 and roughly $22 billion in Q3 2025.
• Active drivers reached another record, absorbing significant demand spikes during the World Cup in Q2 2026.
• Uber observed some supply softness in Brazil, particularly in lower-cost products such as Moto, amid elevated competition for two-wheel drivers from delivery platforms.
• Uber had roughly 285 drivers and couriers for every employee at the end of 2025.

The per-earner average matters more than the headcount for anyone comparing platform work with the wider gig economy, because a count of 10.2 million says nothing about hours worked.

How Much Do Uber Drivers Make?

• Uber drivers grossed $23.88 per hour in 2025, up from $23.66 in 2024, on averages rather than medians, according to Gridwise.
• Bonuses and promotions add $0.74 above trip pay at the median.
• Gridwise’s dataset covers real 2025 earnings from more than 500,000 drivers.

Source: Gridwise 2025 Uber driver earnings data

Can You Make $1,000 a Day With Uber?

Not at typical rates. At the median gross pay of $21.92 per hour, a $1,000 day would take about 45.6 hours of driving. A 40-hour week at that median grosses about $876.80, and even the top 10% earn $29.28 or more per hour.

How Many Employees Does Uber Have?

• Uber’s staff support operations in over 70 countries and more than 15,000 cities around the world.
• Headcount rose about 9.3% during 2025.
• Uber says it continues to moderate hiring relative to its original plans for the year, driven in part by AI-related productivity gains.

That puts Uber among the employers linking slower hiring to AI efficiency, a pattern tracked in our AI job loss statistics. Readers comparing corporate headcounts can set these figures against Tesla’s workforce data.

Source: Uber Form 10-K filings for 2024 and 2025

Uber Revenue by Country and Region

• UK revenue equaled about 44.6% of the US total in 2025.
• EMEA revenue rose about 30.6% in 2025, against about 12.1% for the US and Canada.
• The UK business model change reduced Q2 2026 revenue by $1.1 billion, an ~8-point headwind to YoY growth.
• The change moves driver payment costs from cost of revenue to contra-revenue and has no impact on underlying economics.

Worth noting: The impact on the Mobility revenue margin was roughly 400 bps in Q2, and Uber expects this accounting headwind to persist at roughly the same magnitude for the remainder of 2026. Reported revenue growth for Mobility understates volume growth until the change laps.

Uber Mobility Segment Statistics

• Mobility segment operating income margin reached 7.6% in Q2 2026.
• Gross Bookings grew more than 40% YoY for Uber for Business, and premium business trips generate nearly 2x the Gross Bookings and 4x the contribution profit per trip compared to UberX.
• Uber is launching 100+ new cities, with suburban and sparser markets growing ~1.5x faster than denser markets.
• An average Uber Black trip costs a rider over 15x more than an average Moto trip globally.
• More than 35% of Mobility Gross Bookings in the U.S. are now coming from Uber One members, as of Q4 2025.

Uber Eats and Delivery Statistics

• Delivery Gross Bookings accelerated to 25% YoY, while segment operating income margin reached another record of 3.8%.
• Australia, the UK, and Mexico led growth internationally in Q2 2026.
• Approximately 58% of first-time Delivery consumers were new to Uber’s platform in Q4 2025.
• Uber partners with over 1.3 million monthly Merchants worldwide.
• Grocery & Retail selection added new partnerships including Decathlon, GameStop, Tesco and Ulta Beauty.

Source: Uber Q2 2026 earnings release

What Does the Delivery Hero Deal Add?

The takeover would give Uber combined pro-forma Gross Bookings of $236 billion in 2025. Delivery Hero has separately agreed to sell part of its business covering 14 markets to SSW Partners.

Uber One Membership and Advertising Statistics

• Uber One is available in over 30 countries, against operations in over 70 countries.
• Members now drive half of Uber’s Gross Bookings across Mobility and Delivery.
• Uber One International Benefits, Travel Pass, and Game Day Offers helped consumers save approximately $300 million during the World Cup.
• In Q4 2025, advertising generated well over $2 billion in annualized revenue, up over 50% YoY.
• Delivery advertising crossed 2% of Delivery Gross Bookings.
• Advertising growth broadened across enterprise brands, Grocery & Retail, and Mobility formats.

Why it matters: The incremental engagement and retention generated by members continue to produce attractive returns, according to Uber. A membership that drives half of Gross Bookings gives Uber a loyalty base rivals have to discount against, the same ecosystem lock-in pattern our consumer loyalty coverage tracks across Apple and gaming platforms.

Uber Autonomous Vehicle Statistics

• Uber partnered with more than 25 companies across Mobility, Delivery, and Freight in 2025.
• Live AV deployments reached seven cities for Mobility and 15 for Delivery, per the 2026 proxy statement.
• New deployments across Europe with Autobrains and WeRide, and advanced partnerships with Nuro, Wayve, and Zoox, were announced in Q2 2026.
• AV Labs is deploying hundreds of sensor-equipped vehicles capable of collecting millions of miles of high-fidelity driving data each month.

Uber is betting on aggregating other companies’ vehicles rather than building its own, which makes its partner count as important as any single fleet in the wider robotaxi market. Carmakers pursuing their own autonomy programs, tracked in our Tesla statistics, are the alternative model.

By the numbers: Uber expects to commit over $10 billion of capital over the coming years to bring AVs to market at scale, and partners have now committed approximately 120,000 vehicles to the Uber network. Set against more than ten million human drivers and couriers, that pipeline keeps AVs an add-on to the human network for now.

Source: Uber Q2 2026 prepared remarks

Is Uber Profitable? Uber Profit and Cash Flow Statistics

• In Q3 2025, net income attributable to Uber was $6.6 billion, which includes a $4.9 billion benefit from a tax valuation release.
• In Q4 2025, GAAP net income was $296 million, which includes a $1.6 billion net headwind (pre-tax) from revaluations of Uber’s equity investments.
• Investments were marked at $12.5 billion, including equity method investments, at the end of Q2 2026.
• Diluted share count declined approximately 4% YoY, with roughly $16 billion remaining under the current authorization.

Is Uber Making or Losing Money?

Uber is making money. It generated more than $10 billion of trailing twelve-month free cash flow through Q2 2026, and GAAP Income from operations grew 30% YoY to $1.9 billion in Q2 2026. Quarterly net income swings with the value of Uber’s equity stakes, so free cash flow is the steadier profit signal.

Uber vs Lyft Statistics

• Lyft’s Adjusted EBITDA rose 37% year over year to $177.2 million in Q2 2026, against Uber’s Adjusted EBITDA of $2.8 billion, up 33%.
• Lyft’s net income was up 25% year over year to $50.3 million.
• Uber’s Q2 2026 Gross Bookings were about 10.5 times Lyft’s.

Source: Uber and Lyft Q2 2026 earnings releases

Who Is Bigger, Lyft or Uber?

Uber is far bigger. Uber’s Gross Bookings grew 24% YoY to $58.0 billion in Q2 2026, while Lyft reported Gross Bookings of $5.5 billion, up 23% year over year. The two grew at nearly the same rate, so Uber’s lead is holding rather than widening.

Conclusion

Uber closed its latest quarter with $58.0 billion in Gross Bookings and 208 million monthly active platform consumers, and its filings show where that growth sits. Delivery is closing on Mobility, Uber One members drive half of bookings, and the UK carries a fifth of revenue. Riders get more product tiers, drivers get more demand but modest per-person earnings, and investors get cash flow that now tops $10 billion a year.

For the current quarter, Uber anticipates Gross Bookings of $58.25 billion to $60.25 billion. The Delivery Hero close and the pace of AV launches will decide whether the next leg of growth comes from new markets, new vehicles, or both.