Growing Size and Use of the Internet
July 15, 2006 · Category: Current Events
I found these statistics fascinating:
50 billion the number of e-mails dispatched every day wordwide; in 2001 the traffic was less than 12 billion
88 per cent of e-mails are junk including about 1 per cent which are virus-infected
32 The average number of e-mail messages received per person per day. This is rising by 84 per cent each year
440 million the number of electronic mailboxes in use, including 170 million corporate ones, growing by 32 per cent per year
See the full article for more background on the growing size and use of the internet.
