By Michelle Winowatan, Andrew J. Zahuranec, Andrew Young, Stefaan Verhulst, Max Jun Kim
The Living Library Index – inspired by the Harper’s Index – provides important statistics and highlights global trends in governance innovation. This installment focuses on the data universe.
Please share any additional, illustrative statistics on data, or other issues at the nexus of technology and governance, with us at info@thelivinglib.org
Internet Traffic:
- Percentage of the world’s population that uses the internet: 51.2% (3.9 billion people) – 2018
- Number of search processed worldwide by Google every year: at least 2 trillion – 2016
- Website traffic worldwide generated through mobile phones: 52.2% – 2018
- The total number of mobile subscriptions in the first quarter of 2019: 7.9 billion (addition of 44 million in quarter) – 2019
- Amount of mobile data traffic worldwide: nearly 30 billion GB – 2018
- Data category with highest traffic worldwide: video (60%) – 2018
- Global average of data traffic per smartphone per month: 5.6 GB – 2018
- Time between the creation of each new bitcoin block: 9.27 minutes – 2019
Streaming Services:
- Total hours of video streamed by Netflix users every minute: 97,222 – 2017
- Hours of YouTube watched per day: over 1 billion – 2018
- Number of tracks uploaded to Spotify every day: Over 20,000 – 2019
- Number of Spotify’s monthly active users: 232 million – 2019
- Spotify’s total subscribers: 108 million – 2019
- Spotify’s hours of content listened: 17 billion – 2019
- Total number of songs on Spotify’s catalog: over 30 million – 2019
- Apple Music’s total subscribers: 60 million – 2019
- Total number of songs on Apple Music’s catalog: 45 million – 2019
Social Media:
- Number of snaps shared by Snapchat users every day: Over 3.5 billion – 2017
- Number of tweets sent every day: 500 million – 2019
- Number of Instagram users: over 700 million – 2017
- Amount of data created by Facebook in a day: 4,000,000 GB – 2014
- Number of LinkedIn members: 645 million – 2019
- LinkedIn sign-up rate: 2 members per second – 2019
- Number of photos and videos shared on Instagram every day: 95 million – 2019
- Tinder dates per week: 1 million – 2019
- Total matches on Tinder: over 30 billion – 2019
- Most popular month on Tinder in the US: August – 2018
- Day: Monday – 2018
- Time of day: 9 PM EST – 2018
Calls and Messaging:
- Estimated robocalls made in the US: 47.8 billion – 2018
- Number of messages sent over WhatsApp each day: 65 billion – 2018
- Minutes of voice and video calls made on WhatsApp each day: 2 billion – 2018
- Top 3 most popular messaging apps worldwide: WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, WeChat – 2019
- Worldwide email users: 2.943 billion – 2019
- Number of emails sent/received per day: 246.5 billion – 2019
Retail/Financial Transaction:
- Number of packages shipped by Amazon in a year: 5 billion – 2017
- Total value of payments processed by Venmo in a year: USD 62 billion – 2019
- Based on an independent analysis of public transactions on Venmo in 2017:
- Number of public transactions on Venmo: 207,984,218 – 2017
- Top 5 most frequent last name on Venmo: Smith, Johnson, Lee, Williams, Brown
- Number of transactions that involved pizza or the pizza emoji: 2,979,619 – 2017
- Number of transactions involving house and money with wings emoji or rent: 3,020,484
- Based on a non-representative survey of 2,436 US consumers between the ages of 21 and 72 on P2P platforms:
- The average volume of transactions handled by Venmo: USD 64.2 billion – 2019
- The average volume of transactions handled by Zelle: USD 122.0 billion – 2019
- The average volume of transactions handled by PayPal: USD 141.8 billion – 2019
- Platform with the highest percent adoption among all consumers: PayPal (48%) – 2019
Internet of Things:
- Number of connected IoT devices worldwide: 8.3 billion – 2018
- Number of new devices connected to the Internet every second: 127 – 2017
- Number of wearable devices: 526 million – 2017
- Based on aggregated and anonymized data of Fitbit users from January 1, 2018 – 2018
- Total steps taken: 27 trillion – 2018
- Total hours slept: 12 billion – 2018
- Total active minutes: 119 billion – 2018
- Top 5 countries/territories with most steps: Hong Kong, Spain, Ireland, Sweden, Germany – 2018
- Top 5 countries that get the most sleep: Finland, New Zealand, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands – 2018
- Top 5 US locales with the lowest resting heart rate: Bend, OR; Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, and San Luis Obispo, CA; Twin Falls, ID; Monterey-Salinas, CA; Juneau, AK – 2018
- Amount of data produced by an autonomous car in a one and a half hour of driving: – 4,000 GB
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