In 2022, the average data used per smartphone per month worldwide amounted to 15 gigabytes (GB). The source forecasts that this will increase almost four times reaching 46 GB per smartphone per month globally in 2028.

North America registered the highest mobile data consumption per connection in 2023, with the average connection consuming 29 gigabytes per month. This figure is set to triple by 2030, driven by the adoption of data intensive activities such as 4K streaming.

This statistic displays the average monthly smartphone cellular data usage from 2016 to 2021. In 2016, on average a smartphone consumed 1.7 GBs of cellular data per month. That number is projected to reach 8.9 GBs in 2021.

This statistic shows the average monthly wireless data usage per user in the United States by age in the first two quarters of 2018. In the first half of 2018, users 25 years and younger used 4.1 GB of cellular and 16.8 GB of Wi-Fi wireless data.

This statistic displays the average monthly cellular data usage from 2016 to 2021, by device category. In 2016, on average a smartphone consumed 1.7 GBs of cellular data per month. That number is projected to reach 8.9 GBs in 2021.

This statistic displays the average monthly cellular data usage of Andoird users in the United States in August 2016, by age group (in Megabytes per month). As of August 2016, on average people aged between 18 and 24 years old used approximately 3,000 MBs of cellular data per month.

According to forecasts, smartphone data usage per month in Mexico is set to be about 7.2 gigabytes per month in 2021. Looking ahead to 2026, traffic is expected to reach approximately 28.4 gigabytes. In Latin America, smartphone data traffic is also projected to grow in the coming years.

This statistic shows the average monthly wireless data usage per Android user in the United States in February 2018, broken down by plan type. In February 2018, Android users on the service plan with monthly allowance consumed an average of 13,020 megabytes of Wifi data per month in the United States.

This statistic shows the average price of cellular data per gigabyte in the United States from 2018 to 2023. In 2018, the average price of cellular data was estimated to amount to 4.64 U.S. dollars per GB.

This statistic displays the M2M average monthly cellular data usage from 2016 to 2021. In 2016, on average M2M consumed 0.4 GBs of cellular data per month. That number is projected to reach 1.6 GBs in 2021.

This statistic shows the average monthly mobile data usage per smartphone in the United States from 2010 to 2017. In 2017, the monthly mobile data usage amounted to 5.1 GB per smartphone on average.

In 2024, smartphones across the globe used an average of 20.29 gigabytes of mobile data per month, up from 17.27 gigabytes the previous year. This figure is expected to reach 23.78 gigabytes in 2025, and 42.38 gigabytes by 2029.

This statistic shows the average monthly wireless data usage per Android user in the United States in February 2018, broken down by operator. In February 2018, Android users subscribed to Sprint consumed an average of 13,706 megabytes of Wifi data per month in the United States.

This statistic shows a comparison of the average daily mobile data usage per user in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, India, and Brazil in 2015. In 2015, Brazilian users consumed an average of 4.75 megabytes of mobile data per day.

Mobile data usage in Singapore reached an average of around 96 petabytes (96,000 terabytes) per month during the fourth quarter of 2024. Despite the expansion of public Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), mobile data use remained on the rise during the observed period. Data pricing trend in SingaporeSingapore has always had one of the most expensive data prices in Southeast Asia. However, new technologies such as 5G, as well as the competitive telecommunications market, led to price reductions over the past few years. In 2023, one gigabyte of mobile data cost around 0.63 U.S. dollars on average, indicating a decrease of more than two dollars compared to 2019. Despite the foreseeable trend of decreasing data prices, it would still remain relatively high compared to neighboring Indonesia's 0.28 U.S. dollars per gigabyte. Singapore’s mobile data providersThe telecommunications market in Singapore is shared by three main providers, Singtel, Starhub and M1. Among the leading providers in the country, Singtel had the best 5G coverage experience, as of December 2024.

In the 2022 financial year, the average monthly mobile data usage in New Zealand amounted to 4.86 gigabytes. This value has increased considerably over the past decade, as mobile internet has become more accessible to consumers in the country.

As of 2023, the average data consumption per user per month in India was at **** gigabytes. 4G data traffic contributes to ** percent of the overall data traffic while 5G was launched in India in October 2022. Increased online education, remote working for professionals and higher OTT viewership contributed to the data traffic growth.

This statistic shows the data volume development in mobile phone networks in Germany from 2009 to 2023. In 2023, the average monthly data volume per mobile subscription amounted to 7.2 gigabytes.

In 2023, an average mobile subscriber in Latin America generated seven gigabytes of data traffic per month. It has been projected that the number will increase to 32 gigabytes by 2030. The number of unique mobile subscribers is expected to increase from 465 to 523 million between 2023 and 2030.

The population share with mobile internet access in North America was forecast to increase between 2024 and 2029 by in total 2.9 percentage points. This overall increase does not happen continuously, notably not in 2028 and 2029. The mobile internet penetration is estimated to amount to 84.21 percent in 2029. Notably, the population share with mobile internet access of was continuously increasing over the past years.The penetration rate refers to the share of the total population having access to the internet via a mobile broadband connection.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).Find more key insights for the population share with mobile internet access in countries like Caribbean and Europe.