Global mobile data traffic 2017-2022

In 2018, global mobile data traffic amounted to 19.01 exabytes per month. By 2022, mobile data traffic is expected to reach 77.5 exabytes per month worldwide at a compound annual growth rate of 46 percent.Mobile trafficMobile accounts for approximately half of web traffic worldwide. In the first quarter of 2019, mobile devices (excluding tablets) generated 48.71 percent of global website traffic, consistently hovering around the 50 percent mark since the beginning of 2017. Some regions have wider mobile internet adoption than others. Many developing digital markets are mobile-first, having leapfrogged desktop PC internet due to cost and infrastructural restraints. Asia and Africa have a higher share of mobile web traffic than the global average and in March 2019, mobile devices accounted for over 73 percent of web traffic in Nigeria.Mobile broadbandMobile video, gaming and app downloads are only a few examples of mobile internet activities that require a mobile broadband connection with sufficient speed. In April 2019, Norway was ranked first among the countries with the fastest average mobile internet speed. However, the speed of mobile internet connections is one thing, mobile phone network coverage is another. In 2018, 98 percent of the European population had mobile broadband with only two percent of the population not having mobile broadband coverage. By contrast, the MBB coverage gap in Sub-Saharan Africa amounted to 47 percent of the population, highlighting the disparities in digital access worldwide.

2018年，全球移动数据流量达到每月19.01艾字节。预计到2022年，全球移动数据流量将达到每月77.5艾字节，年复合增长率为46%。移动流量在全球网络流量中占据约一半。2019年第一季度，移动设备（不包括平板电脑）产生了全球网站流量的48.71%，自2017年初以来，这一比例始终稳定在50%左右。一些地区的移动互联网普及率高于其他地区。许多新兴数字市场以移动优先，由于成本和基础设施的限制，它们跳过了桌面PC互联网。亚洲和非洲的移动网络流量占比高于全球平均水平，2019年3月，尼日利亚的移动设备占网站流量的比例超过73%。移动宽带移动视频、游戏和应用程序下载只是需要移动宽带连接且速度足够的移动互联网活动的一些例子。2019年4月，挪威在拥有最快平均移动互联网速度的国家中排名第一。然而，移动互联网连接的速度是一回事，而手机网络覆盖范围则是另一回事。2018年，98%的欧洲人口拥有移动宽带，仅有2%的人口没有移动宽带覆盖。相比之下，撒哈拉以南非洲的MBB覆盖差距达到47%，突显了全球数字接入的差异性。