Immeasurable data stream
This happens on the Internet within a minute
On Instagram, around 695,000 new stories are shared in one minute
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Countless things happen on the Internet every minute. A selection of the events is shown in our graphic.
60 Seconds pass quickly – but in this period of time a lot happens on the Internet. According to data collected by Lori Lewis, published by All Access, around 695,000 new stories are shared on Instagram, around 69 million messages are sent by users with various messengers, and $ 1.6 million in sales are generated via e-commerce. At the same time, around 197.6 million e-mails fly through the World Wide Web, as the Statista graph shows.
All signs indicate that the Internet activity of mankind will continue to increase. This will be ensured not least by the fast mobile standard 5G and the steady increase in people who have access to the Internet.
According to one estimate, around 3.9 billion people worldwide used the Internet in 2019. In 2021, the number of Internet users was projected to rise to around 4.14 billion.
The region with the most Internet users worldwide is Asia – an estimated 2.7 billion online users are located here in 2021. In China alone, the number of Internet users was around 903 million in 2020. The region with the second most Internet users is Europe with an estimated 737 million online users. The number of Internet users in North America is about half that, at around 348 million.
