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 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.

As of 2023, the average data consumption per user per month in India was at 24.1 gigabytes. 4G data traffic contributes to 99 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 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.

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.

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 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 daily mobile data usage by network/provider in the United States in 2016. During the measured period, the average daily data used on T-Mobile networks amounted to 139.19 megabytes.

Since the declaration of the coronavirus (COVID-19) as a pandemic (March 11, 2020), the average daily broadband usage in the United States has gone up compared to earlier in the year. In the week from March 11 to March 18, 2020, the average daily broadband data usage per user in the United States was 6.3 GB during the office hours, an increase of 41.4 percent compared to January. The increase is most likely due to more people working from home and overall restrictions for people to stay at home.

In November 2024, each broadband subscription in Hong Kong had an average data usage of 8,256 megabytes on average, a slight decrease from 8.927 megabytes from the previous month. The total data usage in Hong Kong reached over 228 million megabytes in that month.

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.

Mobile data usage in Singapore reached an average of 86 petabytes (86,610 terabytes) per month in the third quarter of 2023. Despite the expansion of public WLANs, mobile data use remained on the rise.

Data pricing trend in Singapore Singapore 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 2022, one gigabyte of mobile data cost around 0.61 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 providers The telecommunications market in Singapore is shared by three main providers, Singtel, Starhub and M1. Among the leading providers of the country, Singtel had the best 5G coverage experience, as of May 2023.

The average mobile data usage per capita in 2018 was significantly less for the ETNO perimeter of Europe than for Japan, South Korea, and the United States. Europeans on average used 4.3 gigabytes per month of mobile data compared to that of 6.91, 7.15, and 7.24 gigabytes per month in Japan, South Korea, and the United States, respectively. It is important to note that there is a huge variation between European countries in terms of average usage, as Europe* is a regional representation compared to the selected countries included in this study.

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.

The average daily in-home data usage in the United States has increased significantly during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in March 2020. Compared to the same time in March 2019 the daily average in-home data usage has increased by 38 percent to 16.6 gigabytes, up from 12 gigabytes in March 2019. The increase can be observed across almost all device categories with the data usage of gaming consoles and smartphones increasing the most.

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This statistic shows the average daily usage of mobile internet worldwide. According to Zenith Optimedia, daily mobile internet usage per capita amounted to 122 minutes per day in 2018, up from 63 minutes in 2014. The average daily minutes of mobile internet consumption per capita is projected to increase to 155 minutes 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 the first quarter of 2021, the average Malaysian mobile internet user consumed about 25.7 GB of data. Malaysia's high usage can be partly explained by the fact that most providers offered 1GB for free during the pandemic. However, with the increasing demand of online video and social media content this figure is expected to further grow over the next few years.

In the first quarter of 2021, Proximus customers used on average 4.4 gigabytes of blended mobile data per month in Belgium. This is an increase compared to the previous year, when the average data usage amounted to 3.2 gigabytes per month per user. Usage of 4G data increased quarterly between the second quarter of 2017 to the first of 2021, despite a decrease in the second quarter of 2020. The number of mobile customers of Proximus, however, decreased between 2015 and 2018. Roughly 3.7 million customers had a Proximus mobile subscription, whereas by 2018 this decreased to just over 3.5 million mobile customers.

Decrease in number of Proximus mobile customers

Among the Proximus costumers, the majority were postpaid mobile customers. In 2018, roughly 2.74 million customers had a postpaid subscription, whereas 772,000 had a prepaid type of subscription. Observing the annual mobile service revenue of Proximus, it amounted to 963 million euros. Compared to the previous year, it is a decrease of 16 million euros.

Customer subscriptions Telenet

Telenet, another large telecommunication provider in Belgium, had registered a total of just over 2.73 million mobile subscriptions, whereas approximately 1.94 million people had a video subscription at Telenet in 2018.