Having an email account is vital to perform any type of online activity. With a 6% annual increase, there will be 2.849 million active email users by the end of 2018.1
The annual growth of email accounts is 3%. By the end of 2018, it is estimated that there will be 5.235 million email accounts. The average accounts per user is 1,7.1
In 2014, 196,300 million emails were sent and received per day. The forecast for 2018 rises to 227,700 million emails exchanged daily.1
171,000 million spam messages are sent every day.1 Unknown sender names and inappropriate subject lines are the main reasons why users report emails as spam.
In 2014, 121 emails have been sent/received on average per user and per day. In 2018, it will reach 140. With a 7% annual growth, it is estimated that 139,400 million emails will be exchanged daily in 2018.1
Outside the business environment, the increase of emails sent/received was only 0.3% in 2014. The estimate traffic for 2017 is 88,300 million emails every day, and will be maintained in 2018.1
The number of mobile devices in use, including mobile phones and tablets, will grow from 7,700 million in 2014 to 12,100 million in 2018.4
In late 2018, 6.200 million users will use mobile technology, 84% of the world's population.4
The use of mobile email is growing at an annual rate of 23%. In 2018, 80% of email users will access their inbox on their mobile4