The Google Android market may not have reached the stratosphere level of the Apple App store just yet, but they are now boasting somewhere between 30,000 and 35,000 different Android applications and this would be both free and paid applications combined.

Google doesn’t officially publish their numbers but AndroLib estimates the number of Android apps on the higher side at 35k whereas Mobile Crunch pegs this number closer to 30k through their conversation with a Google employee.

Regardless of the exact number, the rate of growth for the application store is not really surprising considering that there are 60,000 Android powered handsets shipping each and every day and these mobile devices will need a strong infrastructure of support to keep mobile customers pleased.

For the sake of comparison, the Android market hosted roughly 10,000 applications back in September 2009 and this number doubled over the next 90 day period. There is no official answer from Google in regards to what percentage of the apps are paid vs free, but again, turning to AndroLib, it’s believed that this split is 39:61.