Google Android Market on Tuesday has crossed the 20000 apps mark and is reported to have doubled in just last five months. A day after the reported milestone Google has come out and said that the actual number of applications exceeds just 16000.

According to AndroLib the number of apps available for download at over 20,000, about 62 percent are free and 38 percent are paid. Google responded that it doesn’t publicly disclose the breakdown of paid and free apps, although on the upside they did say they’d be exploring more ways to share information about the growth of Android Market soon.

AndroLib says that either Google is only counting the number of apps available to users in the U.S. or is disclosing the number accounted for at the end of November rather than today’s number, or they are not including the correct number of apps removed from the Android Market after publication, either by Google or by the app developer.

According to AndroLib the peak in apps submission into the Android Market came in November this year, concurrent with the launch of the Motorola Droid, which is expected to sell in excess of one million units this year.

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