THE number of emails exchanged daily has increased to 333.2 billion, a sharp rise from 306 billion recorded in 2020.
This is according to a survey by BroadbandSearch, titled: ‘Key Internet Statistics in 2023 (Including Mobile)’.
It noted that the Covid-19 pandemic is still very much around, keeping people at home and making the world rely on digital technology more than ever before.
The platform said social media, video platforms, e-Commerce and searches saw increased usage that makes people live pretty much their entire lives online. It said with this increased usage, peoples’ Internet connection sometimes has a hard time keeping up.
Thus far in 2023, with a current worldwide estimated population of 7.9 billion, BroadbandSearch said approximately 5.25 billion people have access to and use the internet, which means that 66.2 per cent of the world’s population uses the net.
According to it, from the year 2000 to 2023, the usage of the Internet increased by 1,355 per cent. Specifically, it noted that in 2023, Asia continues to account for the majority of Internet users with 2,790,150,527 people in the region online, which makes up 53.1 per cent of the global Internet population.
It disclosed that 93.4 per cent of North America and 88.4 per cent of Europe have access to and use the Internet. These are the two regions in the world with the highest Internet penetration rates. The Middle East has seen a 6,141 per cent growth in Internet usage since 2000.
The report said there are currently 370.7 million registered domain names in the world, stressing that 34.5 per cent of all websites are using WordPress as their content management system, which is over 127 million websites.
