In a “transparency report” updated on Thursday, Google revealed that the United States made the largest number of requests for user information, nearly 11,000, to the company in the first six months of 2013.

The number of US requests for Google users’ data accounted for more than a third of the 25,879 requests that the company received from governments around the world, according to the report.

Between January and June 2013, the number of requests from governments worldwide was more than twice the number of similar demands in 2010, when the company published its first transparency report covering the second half of 2009, said Google.