The Internet: A Global Phenomenon Its reach extends to every corner of the world, enabling people to connect, collaborate, and share ideas on an unprecedented scale.

Internet traffic volume measures global IP traffic, or the amount of data being sent and received over the internet globally each month.

Globally, consumer Internet traffic will grow 4-fold from 2017 to 2022, a compound annual growth rate of 31%. Globally, consumer Internet traffic will reach 292.8 EB per month by 2022, the equivalent of 73 billion DVDs per month, or 100 million DVDs per hour.

According to ITU data – until now, worldwide global Internet traffic has grown at an average annual rate of 22%, increasing from 2401 Exabytes in 2019 to 5291 Exabytes in 2022.