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.

As of the second quarter of 2024, the average residential high-speed broadband subscription in Canada downloaded around 460 gigabytes of data per month. This was a decrease on the previous quarter, when the average download volume reached a record 488 gigabytes per month.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

The global number of internet users in was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2029 by in total 1.3 billion users (+23.66 percent). After the fifteenth consecutive increasing year, the number of users is estimated to reach 7 billion users and therefore a new peak in 2029. Notably, the number of internet users of was continuously increasing over the past years.Depicted is the estimated number of individuals in the country or region at hand, that use the internet. As the datasource clarifies, connection quality and usage frequency are distinct aspects, not taken into account here.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 number of internet users in countries like the Americas and Asia.

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.

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.

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.

This statistic presents the average daily time spent online by global internet users from 2011 to 2021. According to Zenith Optimedia, the average daily minutes of internet consumption per capita amounted to 170 minutes in 2018. The majority of these daily online minutes were generated via mobile.

The average monthly data use per fixed residential broadband connection reached 535 gigabytes in the United Kingdom in 2023, up from 482 gigabytes in 2022. Increasing broadband data traffic in the UK reflects the broad adoption of data intensive activities such as 4K streaming and online gaming.

In the first quarter of 2021, the average Singaporean mobile internet user consumed about 12.7 GB of data per month. With the increasing demand of online video and social media content this figure is expected to further grow over the next few years.

In a May 2022 study, Greater London had the highest average broadband usage per household in the United Kingdom (UK) at 506 GB/month, over 11 percent above the national average of 456 GB/month. The region with the lowest broadband consumption per household was in the South West, over 12 percent lower than the national average at 400 GB/month.

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.

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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.

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.