How does the world create 2.5 billion billion bytes of data every day?

Every day, the world generates huge amounts of data: 2.5 billion billion bytes and 90% of the world's data is created over the past 2 years. This number will increase rapidly when the number of connected devices increases rapidly.

How much data does the world generate every day?

Every day, the world generates huge amounts of data: 2.5 billion billion bytes and 90% of the world's data is created over the past 2 years. This number will increase rapidly when the number of connected devices increases rapidly.

The number of 2.5 billion billion is really too big, so how did we create that huge amount of data? The statistics below will help you better understand this issue.

Internet

The Internet has an enormous amount of information waiting to be retrieved. As long as you search on the search engines, you have created the data.

Currently the world has more than 7 billion Internet users, an increase of 7.5% compared to 2016.

Worldwide there are currently 5 billion searches per day, of which more than half of searches are done on mobile phones.

Google handles an average of more than 40,000 searches per second (ie 3.5 billion searches per day), accounting for 77% of searches done worldwide.

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The social media

We all love and use social media every day and of course it also creates data. Below is the data we created every minute on social media, according to Domo's Data Never Sleeps 5.0 report.

  1. 527,760 photos shared on Snapchat.
  2. More than 120 people with jobs join LinkedIn.
  3. 4,146,600 YouTube videos viewed.
  4. 456,000 tweets sent to Twitter.
  5. 46,740 photos posted on Instagram.

Facebook with 2 billion active people, currently the largest social media platform on the planet. And below the relevant Facebook figures:

  1. 2 billion people work on Facebook every day, of which more than 307 million are Europeans.
  2. 5 new Facebook accounts are created every second.
  3. More than 300 million photos are uploaded every day.
  4. 510,000 comments are posted and 293,000 statuses are updated every minute.

Instagram - Facebook's free photo-sharing social network - has equally impressive numbers:

  1. There are 600 million Instagram users with 400 million active every day.
  2. 95 million images and videos are shared on Instagram every day.
  3. 100 million users of Instagram's Stories every day.

Communications

Whenever using contact methods to send text messages, email . we all create data:

  1. There are 16 million text messages sent every minute.
  2. There are 990,000 turns of claws on Tinder every minute
  3. 156 million emails are sent every minute and according to estimates by the world, there will be 9 billion email users by 2019.
  4. 15,000 GIFs are sent via Facebook Messenger application every minute.
  5. 103,447,520 spam emails are sent every minute.
  6. There are 154,200 Skype calls per minute.

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Digital Cameras

Today, most people own smartphones with high quality cameras that make shooting easier than ever. There are trillions of photos stored on the phone and this number will increase rapidly in the future.

  1. 1.2 trillion photos were taken at the end of 2017.

Services

Below is the statistical data on a few numbers generated from Internet services every minute:

  1. 18,055,556 forecast requests are sent to the Weather Channel page.
  2. 51,892 USD of transacted transactions is handled by Venmo.
  3. 13 new songs added to Spotify.
  4. 45,788 Uber trips are made.
  5. 600 content changes made by Wikipedia users.

Internet all things

Internet of Things (Internet of Things - IoT), a system of smart devices connected, interacting with each other and interacting with users, and collecting all kinds of data is growing rapidly. In 2006, there were only 2 billion devices but according to the forecast, by 2020 this figure will increase to 200 billion. And of course, the data we have also increased.

With voice search devices alone, one of them, voice search commands on Google in 2016 increased 35 times compared to 2008.

In the future, there will be more and more areas of digitalization and data, so the numbers will increase.

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