World Mobile Data Reaches 66 Million Terabytes in First Quarter 2021


In July 2021 as many as 67% of the world's population or around 5.3 billion people own a cell phone. Compared to last year, there were 117 million new users in a data revealed by Stock Apps.

This figure is certainly not evenly distributed throughout the world, where Europe for example is the leading region last year with 86% of the population owning a mobile phone.


However, the market is basically saturated as the forecast for 2025 is 87%, so almost no growth is expected in the next few years.



Then North America is very close to just a few percentage points behind Europe. China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan combined are basically at the same level too with 83% of the population owning a cell phone.


The market with the smallest share of cell phone ownership is sub-Saharan Africa where less than half of the population owns a cell phone.


Keep in mind the number 5.3 billion is just the number of people who have at least one phone some of which have additional devices connected to the cellular network.







79% of all mobile connections are smartphones ---6.4 billion of them-- and account for 73% of total traffic. Other connected devices such as tablets, laptops and routers have a small 3.8% market share of 310 million devices.


The pandemic caused a massive 68% spike in mobile traffic year over year, reaching 66 exabytes in Q1 2021 (i.e. 66 million terabytes). Android devices account for 73% of mobile data traffic and iOS devices at 26.3%.


The global average for 1 GB of mobile data is USD 4.07 . Greeks pay at most twice the average or USD 8.16 . Users in the UAE and New Zealand did not do much better at USD 7.62 and USD 6.99 per gigabyte, respectively.


Israel has by far the cheapest data at a cost of 1 GB at just USD 0.05. Followed by Italy USD 0.27 and Russia USD 0.29 . Users in the US and UK paid an average of USD 3.33 and USD 1.42 .

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