Mobile data traffic worldwide by region 2022

This statistic gives information on the mobile data traffic worldwide from 2017 until 2022, sorted by region. In 2018, mobile data traffic in North America amounted to 1.8 exabytes per month. In 2022, North American traffic from mobile devices such as smartphones, laptops, tables, M2M connections and non-smartphones is projected to reach 5.85 exabytes per month. The projected compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for the region amounts to 36 percent.

Global mobile data traffic from 2017 to 2022, by region (in exabytes per month)

Characteristic	Asia Pacific	Middle East and Africa	Central and Eastern Europe	North America	Western Europe	Latin America
2017	5.88	1.22	1.38	1.26	1.02	0.75
2018	10.35	2.05	2.15	1.8	1.47	1.18
2019*	15.91	3.25	3.12	2.5	2.06	1.72
2020*	22.81	5.01	4.32	3.41	2.81	2.42
2021*	31.81	7.56	5.83	4.48	3.8	3.31
2022*	43.17	11.17	7.75	5.85	5.12	4.44

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Release date

February 2019

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Region

North America

Survey time period

2017 to 2018

Supplementary notes

* Forecast.
Includes data, file sharing, video and M2M applications. Includes non-smartphones, smartphones, laptops, tablets, M2M and other portable devices. his forecast includes only cellular traffic and excludes traffic offloaded onto Wi-Fi and small cell from dual-mode devices.

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