Apple on Thursday announced a milestone for the App Store: more than 15 billion apps have been download from the App Store.

[ad#Google Adsense 300×250 in story]Some interesting facts shared by Apple in announcing the new milestone: the App Store now touts more than 425,000 apps apps available for download. More than 100,000 of them are native for the iPad.

All told, the App Store now supports a market of more than 200 million iOS device users worldwide. iOS devices and the App Store are now available in 90 countries worldwide.

What’s more, Apple noted that it has paid out developers over $2.5 billion to date.