Canada loves poop emoji, America favours pizza

The poop emoji is most popular in Canada, Americans love to send pizza and skull emojis, while hearts are mostly used by French speakers, according to an analysis of data from 16 languages and regions.
UK-based company SwiftKey analysed more than 1 billion pieces of data to learn how speakers of 16 different languages and regions use emojis and found that 70 per cent of all emojis sent are positive.
Happy faces are the most popular emojis overall, constituting 44.8 per cent of all emoji usage, the SwiftKey emoji report found.
The report also found that Canadians score highest for the poop emoji compared to other countries.

Canadians also score highest in emoji categories typically thought of as 'all-American' (money, raunchy, violent, sports).
French use four times as many heart emoji than other languages, in fact 55 per cent of emojis sent in French are hearts.

French is also the only language for which the leading emoji category is not happy faces.
Arabic speakers use flowers and plants emoji four times more than average while Russian speakers are the biggest romantics, using three times as much romance-themed emoji than the average.
Australia is the land of indulgence according to the emoji data, using double the average amount of alcohol-themed emoji, 65 per cent more drug emoji than average and leading for both junk food and holiday emoji.

Americans used the most LGBT emojis than others and also lead for a random assortment of emoji and categories, including skulls, birthday cake, fire, pizza, tech and meat.