title: how to make sense of the App downloads in iTunes Connect?
body: <p>My first App is released. Am quite confused with what iTunes Connect is displaying. Can someone please help me interpret the data?</p>
  
  <p>When we open 'manage your apps', there is a graph like this</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/jp0hl.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>It says 5 for Oct 4th and 31 for Oct 5th. What does this mean? Does the 31 on Oct 5th include the 5 on Oct 4th (is it cumulative)? Or should I calculate the 'total app downloads' as 5+31 = 36 so far?</p>
  
  <p>ALso, in the 'top markets' table below, it shows some countries and then shows +1,+4,+8 etc. What are these? For example '+1 in Venezuela' -> does this mean 1 'new' download (not accounting for how many have already been already downloaded the previous days from this country) in Venezuela on the particular day of Oct 5th, or is it cumulative (i.e. sum total of all downloads since the beginning in the country Venezuela for the App)?</p>