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How Much Data is Generated Each Day?

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5 years ago

April 15, 2019

Jeff Desjardins

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How Much Data is Generated Each Day?

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You’ve probably heard of kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, or even terabytes.

These data units are common everyday amounts that the average person may run into. Units this size may be big enough to quantify the amount of data sent in an email attachment, or the data stored on a hard drive, for example.

In the coming years, however, these common units will begin to seem more quaint – that’s because the entire digital universe is expected to reach 44 zettabytes by 2020.

If this number is correct, it will mean there are 40 times more bytes than there are stars in the observable universe.

A Crash Course in Data

Today’s infographic comes to us from Raconteur, and it gives us a picture of this new data reality.

Before we get to how much data is created each day – both now, and in the future – it’s worth getting acquainted with how data scales in terms of units.

Abbreviation	Unit	Value	Size (in bytes)
b	bit	0 or 1	1/8 of a byte
B	bytes	8 bits	1 byte
KB	kilobytes	1,000 bytes	1,000 bytes
MB	megabyte	1,000² bytes	1,000,000 bytes
GB	gigabyte	1,000³ bytes	1,000,000,000 bytes
TB	terabyte	1,000⁴ bytes	1,000,000,000,000 bytes
PB	petabyte	1,000⁵ bytes	1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
EB	exabyte	1,000⁶ bytes	1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
ZB	zettabyte	1,000⁷ bytes	1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
YB	yottabyte	1,000⁸ bytes	1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes

There’s no doubt that data literacy will only become more important in the future, so make sure you know your zettabytes from your yottabytes!

A Day of Data

How much data is generated in a day – and what could this look like as we enter an even more data-driven future?

Here are some key daily statistics highlighted in the infographic:

500 million tweets are sent
294 billion emails are sent
4 petabytes of data are created on Facebook
4 terabytes of data are created from each connected car
65 billion messages are sent on WhatsApp
5 billion searches are made

By 2025, it’s estimated that 463 exabytes of data will be created each day globally – that’s the equivalent of 212,765,957 DVDs per day!

If you think the above information is fascinating, see what happens in an internet minute.

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Countries With the Highest Rates of Crypto Ownership

While the U.S. is a major market for cryptocurrencies, two countries surpass it in terms of their rates of crypto ownership.

Published

3 days ago

May 7, 2024

Marcus Lu

Countries With the Highest Rates of Crypto Ownership

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This graphic ranks the top 10 countries by their rate of cryptocurrency ownership, which is the percentage of the population that owns crypto. These figures come from crypto payment gateway, Triple-A, and are as of 2023.

Data and Highlights

The table below lists the rates of crypto ownership in the top 10 countries, as well as the number of people this amounts to.

Country	% of Population Who Own Crypto	# of Crypto Owners
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates	30.4	3M
🇻🇳 Vietnam	21.2	21M
🇺🇸 U.S.	15.6	53M
🇮🇷 Iran	13.5	12M
🇵🇭 Philippines	13.4	16M
🇧🇷 Brazil	12	26M
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia	11.4	4M
🇸🇬 Singapore	11.1	665K
🇺🇦 Ukraine	10.6	4M
🇻🇪 Venezuela	10.3	3M

Note that if we were to rank countries based on their actual number of crypto owners, India would rank first at 93 million people, China would rank second at 59 million people, and the U.S. would rank third at 52 million people.

The UAE Takes the Top Spot

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) boasts the highest rates of crypto ownership globally. The country’s government is considered to be very crypto friendly, as described in Henley & Partners’ Crypto Wealth Report 2023:

In the UAE, the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA-ADGM) was the first to provide rules and regulations regarding cryptocurrency purchasing and selling. The Emirates are generally very open to new technologies and have proposed zero taxes for crypto owners and businesses.

Vietnam leads Southeast Asia

According to the Crypto Council for Innovation, cryptocurrency holdings in Vietnam are also untaxed, making them an attractive asset.

Another reason for Vietnam’s high rates of ownership could be its large unbanked population (people without access to financial services). Cryptocurrencies may provide an alternative means of accessing these services without relying on traditional banks.

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If you enjoyed this post, be sure to check out The World’s Largest Corporate Holders of Bitcoin, which ranks the top 12 publicly traded companies by their Bitcoin holdings.