The total amount of data created, captured, copied, and consumed globally is forecast to increase rapidly, reaching *** zettabytes in 2024. Over the next five years up to 2028, global data creation is projected to grow to more than *** zettabytes. In 2020, the amount of data created and replicated reached a new high. The growth was higher than previously expected, caused by the increased demand due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as more people worked and learned from home and used home entertainment options more often. Storage capacity also growing Only a small percentage of this newly created data is kept though, as just * percent of the data produced and consumed in 2020 was saved and retained into 2021. In line with the strong growth of the data volume, the installed base of storage capacity is forecast to increase, growing at a compound annual growth rate of **** percent over the forecast period from 2020 to 2025. In 2020, the installed base of storage capacity reached *** zettabytes.

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.

In 2022, the average data used per smartphone per month worldwide amounted to ** gigabytes (GB). The source forecasts that this will increase almost four times reaching ** 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 ** gigabytes per month. This figure is set to triple by 2030, driven by the adoption of data intensive activities such as 4K streaming.

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 *** gigabytes per month of mobile data compared to that of ****, ****, and **** 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 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 *** GB of cellular and **** GB of Wi-Fi wireless data.

In May 2023, 905 million gigabytes of data were uploaded and downloaded via mobile networks in the United Kingdom. This was around a 25 percent increase on May 2022, with increased data use driven by shifting consumer habits and the adoption of artificial intelligence.

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 *** GB per smartphone on average.

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 price of cellular data per gigabyte by carrier/provider in the United States in 2017. In 2017, Verizon's average price of cellular data amounted to **** U.S. dollars per GB.

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.

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

In the first quarter of 2021, the average Singaporean mobile internet user consumed about **** 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 2022, Thailand's monthly mobile data use per subscriber increased to **** gigabytes from ** gigabytes the year before. According to Ericsson's forecast, this will increase to ** gigabytes per month in 2025.

This statistic shows the total business internet data traffic in the United States from 2016 to 2023. In 2017, total business internet traffic volume amounted to 56.7 billion gigabytes in the United States.

By 2030, the average mobile data connection was forecast to generate almost ** gigabytes of traffic per month in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), increasing from *** gigabytes in 2023. The monthly mobile data traffic per subscriber has experienced a considerable growth from *** gigabytes in 2018.

In the second quarter of 2019, the average Indonesian internet user consumed about *** GB of data. With the increasing demand of online video and social media content this figure is expected to further grow over the next few years.

Social media versus data center market
With a population totaling around *** million inhabitants, the number of smartphone users in Indonesia was estimated to reach ***** million users in 2020. Many of the mobile internet providers in Indonesia offer unlimited data package plans that allow users to use social media or stream videos as much as they want. Telkomsel, for example, the largest and most popular mobile internet provider in Indonesia, offers an internet data plan package that starts at around **** U.S. dollars for 3GB of data. In 2023, it was estimated that there would be around ***** million social network users in Indonesia. This increasing number of internet and social media users would have an impact on Indonesia’s data center market.

Data cloud market is rising The most popular online activities among Indonesians were mobile messaging, shopping, and social networking. Watching a YouTube video on a smartphone consumes around 260MB per hour at standard ****, while Full HD viewing can use up to 1.65GB. It was therefore not surprising that by the end of 2018, the data traffic volume of PT Telkom Indonesia Group amounted to **** exabytes. However, rising data usage means an increasing need for more data storage units. The cloud market is becoming one of the biggest markets in Indonesia. By 2021, the data storage market revenue was expected to amount to approximately ***** million U.S. Dollars.

Bitcoin's blockchain size was close to reaching 652.93 gigabytes in June 2025, as the database saw exponential growth by nearly one gigabyte every few days. The Bitcoin blockchain contains a continuously growing and tamper-evident list of all Bitcoin transactions and records since its initial release in January 2009. Bitcoin has a set limit of 21 million coins, the last of which will be mined around 2140, according to a forecast made in 2017. Bitcoin mining: A somewhat uncharted world Despite interest in the topic, there are few accurate figures on how big Bitcoin mining is on a country-by-country basis. Bitcoin's design philosophy is at the heart of this. Created out of protest against governments and central banks, Bitcoin's blockchain effectively hides both the country of origin and the destination country within a (mining) transaction. Research involving IP addresses placed the United States as the world's most Bitcoin mining country in 2022 - but the source admits IP addresses can easily be manipulated using VPN. Note that mining figures are different from figures on Bitcoin trading: Africa and Latin America were more interested in buying and selling BTC than some of the world's developed economies. Bitcoin developments Bitcoin's trade volume slowed in the second quarter of 2023, after hitting a noticeable growth at the beginning of the year. The coin outperformed most of the market. Some attribute this to the announcement in June 2023 that BlackRock filed for a Bitcoin ETF. This iShares Bitcoin Trust was to use Coinbase Custody as its custodian. Regulators in the United States had not yet approved any applications for spot ETFs on Bitcoin.

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.

One gigabyte for mobile internet in Nigeria cost on average ** U.S. cents as of August 2023. The country ranked **** in a list of *** countries worldwide, from the cheapest to the most expensive for mobile data. In the regional comparison, Nigeria was among the nations with lower costs for mobile data in Africa. Out of 55 plans analyzed in the country, the lowest price observed was **** U.S. dollars per *** for a ** days plan. In the most expensive plan, *** cost **** U.S. dollars.